tag: europe

A week in Madeira A week in Madeira

Our trip to Fun­chal, Madeira wasn’t planned, and it came about through the cir­cuitous route of a can­celled 3 week hol­i­day in Japan, but that’s another and much less excit­ing story. Book­ing last minute, we opted for a one week Thom­son (TUI) pack­age, with flights and hotel included, which is very unlike us. But we […]

Barcelona, Spain Barcelona, Spain

From our trip to Cadaqués, the return route to Barcelona took us a dif­fer­ent way. Up at 7am, checked out by 8am, with break­fast wrapped in nap­kins, the hotel direc­tor dropped us at the bus sta­tion in his jeep. Adiós. On the Sarfa bus we went up and around the moun­tain roads again, bus swaying […]

Cadaqués, Spain Cadaqués, Spain

From Brighton Sta­tion and the usual decrepit First Cap­i­tal Con­nect trains, then Gatwick Air­port and pro­fi­cient Easy­Jet flight to Barcelona, then taxi to Esta­cio del Nord, and a 2h45 Sarfa bus north, through wind­ing pyre­nean roads, down to the coastal town of Cadaques.

Honeymoon epilogue: The journey home Honeymoon epilogue: The journey home

Our jour­ney home started with­out a hitch, up at 5:15am, packed, checked out and whisked to Chi­ang Mai air­port via our trans­fer. After hang­ing around amongst thou­sands of mos­qui­tos wait­ing for the check-in desk to open, we deposited our lug­gage and ate our packed break­fast — hearty tuna sand­wiches. In the lounge we rem­i­nisced about […]

Prague & Dresden Prague & Dresden

I’m cur­rently sit­ting on a train, trav­el­ling from Prague through to Berlin, we’re get­ting off at Dres­den for a day trip. It takes about two hours. The rolling green scenery and river Vltava are going past, bask­ing in glo­ri­ous sun­shine. A group of sleepy Amer­i­cans sur­round us. Wak­ing at 3:45am and fly­ing from Lon­don Gatwick at […]

Two weeks in Molyvos–Lesbos, Greece Two weeks in Molyvos–Lesbos, Greece

I shall not get into our labo­ri­ous process of decid­ing which island/resort to visit in Greece, but we decided on Les­bos for its veg­e­ta­tion, size, rel­a­tively ow tourism, direct flights and cul­ture. The Sun Rise Hotel was also highly rated on Trip Advi­sor (other can­di­dates were the Olive Press Hotel (too noisy), The Sea Horse (no pool) and a cou­ple of oth­ers (Petra, Anaxos, too far from the beau­ti­ful Molyvos).

Sozopol, the Bulgarian adventure Sozopol, the Bulgarian adventure

Here I am in Bul­garia on our first warm evening (Mon­day). I have decided to write this blog entry as I go so that at the end of it all I won’t have to spend for­ever try­ing to recall all the fine lit­tle details. My girl­friend and I, who I shall from hereon refer to […]

Mougins and the French Riviera Mougins and the French Riviera

Hello, here is a fine wel­come to you all from me in my lat­est jour­nal entry. In this par­tic­u­lar episode I shall be talk­ing to you about my hol­i­day to the French Riv­iera. Thanks to an impres­sive holiday-package deal my mum is part of, both I and my girl­friend were priv­i­leged with ‘free’ accom­mo­da­tion at […]