BELGIUM | Wednesday, 4 Jun 2014 | Views [270] | Comments [2]
3 & 4 June 2014
Readers may recall that on our last visit to Brugge (l understand that it is also called Bruges) it rained and consequently we decided that one day we would return and revisit the town. To revisit on this trip was a decision made ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 3 Jun 2014 | Views [241] | Comments [1]
Saturday 31 May to Monday 2 June 2014
Arrived in London at 4.30 pm on Saturday 31 May after leaving Melbourne at midnight on the same day. Arriving at your destination more than 24 hours after you left, but arriving only 16 hours later by the clock ... Read more >
BELGIUM | Monday, 24 Sep 2012 | Views [505]
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 [775]
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 [489]
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 [1141] | 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 [897] | 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 [668]
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 [684]
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 >
MALAYSIA | Wednesday, 4 Aug 2010 | Views [356]
Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th August 2010
Arrived in KL at 6.30am to a very heavy and humid atmosphere. A previously organised taxi took us to our hotel in KL where we were able gain an early entry to our room and consequently had a welcome sleep ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 2 Aug 2010 | Views [375]
Friday 30 July to Sunday 1 August 2010 It was really about 4 nights rather than 3 days. After arriving back in Paris on Thursday evening, we found our hotel and checked in, showered, changed and headed to see the Moulin Rouge. I booked the tickets ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 | Views [468]
Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29 July 2010 After staying the Tuesday night in a Paris hotel after seeing Eily off on the Eurostar, we set off on a train to visit an old friend named Robbie Marmottan (Jewson) who was a childhood neighbour and friend and ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | Views [684]
Sunday & Monday 25 & 26 July 2010 A trip to the Loire valley to inspect a number of châteaux was the purpose of a two day trip, but as is the way of the adage of “the plans of mice and men” this did not happen in the manner that was intended.... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [666]
Saturday 24 July 2010 We took the Eurostar chunnel train to Lille and then another train to Amiens, which is where we stayed the night. After booking into the hotel, we travelled to Villers-Bretoneux to have a look at the Australain war cemetery located ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 24 Jul 2010 | Views [363]
Friday 23 July 2010 This day of the trip was set aside for just one purpose - a shopping trip to Harrods, promised to Gloria, as we did not do it the last time we were in London. Male family members (or any males living on this planet) please take ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 23 Jul 2010 | Views [721] | Comments [1]
Sunday 18 th to Thursday 22 nd July 2010. We were to head to Cornwall and first night’s accommodation was booked at a place named Saltash, to the west of Plymouth. Did we go directly there or did we take the Treseder route? We did not arrive ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 17 Jul 2010 | Views [554] | Comments [1]
14 -17 July 2010 – Wednesday to Saturday Oops – the title is wrong – just a typo. It should have read The Booze in Birmingham. For Gloria and Eily anyway. Our time in Birmingham started with a flight from Milano on an aircraft operated ... Read more >
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