Trip: Europe 2012
There are [10] stories from my trip: Europe 2012
BELGIUM | Monday, 24 Sep 2012 | Views [504]
Based on a suggestion by Andrew, we travelled to Brugge to
check out a town that we were assured was worth a visit.
The trip to Brugge was interesting, to say the least.
Being the seasoned travellers that we are, we decided that
it would ... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Saturday, 22 Sep 2012 | Views [774]
Friday 21 September 2012
We farewelled Eily at the train station and returned to the
hotel to meet Peter Koetsveld who had arranged to pick us up there.
Peter was around the mid 40s and he surprised me with his
height as he was quite tall.... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Friday, 21 Sep 2012 | Views [1609]
We arrived by train in Rotterdam around 2pm after having
some problems buying tickets at the station. It turns out that in the
Nederlands, you cannot use a credit card to buy train tickets. Eily tried to
buy them with her debit card, but the machine ... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 20 Sep 2012 | Views [565]
Eily rejoined us for the next few days as we took in the
sights, sounds, flavours and beers of the Nederlands.
The best coffee I have ever had in Europe was in Maastricht
– after meeting Eily at the station, we headed straight across the road to ... Read more >
GERMANY | Monday, 17 Sep 2012 | Views [488]
Köln,
Deutschland (Cologne, Germany)
A modern city that seemed to be lacking old buildings –
except a number of churches.
After checking into our hotel mid afternoon after arriving
from Bern, we walked to the Köln
Cathedral or Dom as ... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Sunday, 16 Sep 2012 | Views [1140] | Comments [2]
An interesting place Bern.
Full of happy and polite Swiss, clean, tidy and with an
ultra efficient and extraordinarily quiet public transport system.
When we arrived, we were expecting a city devoid of
attractions based on previous reports ... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Saturday, 15 Sep 2012 | Views [896] | Comments [1]
This part of our adventure started by taking the Eurostar to
Paris and another train to Dijon. Whilst we were waiting for the Dijon train, I
attempted to buy tickets for the train from Dijon to Bern, but the machine kept
having a problem when it went ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012 | Views [407]
Friday 7 September was a lay day for basketball. This meant that in theory, we had a day free to explore London. It didn’t happen.......
We had our best night’s sleep for the trip so far and were, well, just a little late in getting ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 7 Sep 2012 | Views [667]
I write this post on the morning of Friday 7 Sept after a
day of high and lows yesterday.
On Thursday, we spent a few hours in the morning at Camden Market – the girls
seemed to have a good time, as one would expect when they are let loose in ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 7 Sep 2012 | Views [683]
Saturday September 1 - Wednesday September 5 Our latest adventure started with an overnight stay in Kuala
Lumpur in an attempt to be in a somewhat reasonable condition when we arrived
in London, primarily because as soon as we arrived at our hotel, ... Read more >
