Yesterday we visited Néris-les-Bains, a town built around natural hot springs. There were many hotels, and a place where you could take the hot waters, on medical advice…

On 30 December we visited Souvigny and visited the rather large church there – The Priory Church of Souvigny. More details at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souvigny_Priory The…

We took a drive to La forêt de Tronçais today. It consisted of oak trees. There are many charming lakes in the forest. … with facilities such as pedalo boats and picnic areas:…

A five minute walk from our abode is Le Château de Hérisson. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27H%C3%A9risson https://www.chateau-herisson.fr/ From Wikipedia,…

We took the TGV from Strasbourg to Dijon. Then we changed for a local train to Beaune. Helen’s sister Margot (and her husband Mal) picked us up from Beaune and drove us to…

(Featured image: Strasbourg Station). We took the 11:17 train from Cologne to Mannheim. Then we had to change to catch the TVG from Mannheim to Strasbourg. We had a 47 minute…

Today we visited the Cologne Cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral “Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248…

Another day spent travelling … We hopped onto the intercity train, which was very smooth and fast. After a few hours there was an announcement that the train was terminating at…

After a very pleasant breakfast we wandered around the nearby city square, cluttered with grand old buildings, and obscured by lots of Christmas stalls. I did the best I could…

Today we took a couple of trains to get ourselves to Bremen. The first train took us to Hamburg, then we had lunch at the station, and caught another train to go to Bremen. The…

We hopped back onto the hop-on hop-off bus and took it to Rosenborg Castle. https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/planning/rosenborg-castle-gdk410582 This was fairly busy.…

Yesterday we took a one-hour canal tour. The ceiling inside the boat was fairly low, as it had to pass under low bridges. Even so, we cleared some of the bridges by only a few…

Nothing much to report today, except that we took the train from Stockholm to Copenhagen. There were some “technical issues” which caused us to stop for about 40 minutes, but…

At breakfast this morning we were graced with a choir sing acapella songs celebrating Saint Lucy’s Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day The lead singer had…

Today we had a 3-hour guided tour of Stockholm, ending up near the Nobel Prize Museum. Our hotel, unlike the others we have seen, had rather imposing massive iron doors. Of…

Today we headed down the docks to the Bryggens Museum, located past where the Bryggens area is. The staff member who sold us tickets rather disarmingly said that downstairs it…

On Friday we left our hotel in Flåm and took a series of transports to our hotel in Bergen:* Ferry to Gudvangen* Bus to Voss* Train to Dale* Bus to Bergen* Taxi from the…

Our main luggage was dropped off at Reception to be couriered to Bergen, and then we took the Oslo tram down to the main railway station, to catch our train to Myrdal. The…

First, we had breakfast at 7:30 AM while it was still dark! Then we strolled down to the National Museum in -14 C temperature. My eyeballs started to freeze up! I’ll just post…

Today we took the city train (T-Bane) to Holmenkollen station. This runs underground in the city and above ground elsewhere (like Melbourne). It was around -12° C, and so,…

This morning we went on a 3-hour guided tour of Oslo. Amongst other things we visited the Vigeland Sculpture Park, which was in the Frogner district. This park is full of…

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We are off to Norway shortly. First leg is to fly to Oslo, then take the train to Flåm, then Bergen, then fly to Stockholm.…

Another Swiss city, another highly efficient tram system and lots of museums! We visited the Basel Historical Museum (Historisches Museum Basel), a few tram stops from our…

Today we walked down to the Cathedral Notre-Dame, which I showed the outside of in yesterday’s blog. First, we passed a shop which reminded me of one of my friends at the…

We took the train yesterday from Interlaken to Strasbourg, changing at Basel, as the gauge of the railway changes at the border between Switzerland and France. The train was…

Today we declined to spend around AU$700 to go to the top of the Jungfrau mountain, preferring instead to go up the funicular railway to Harder Kulm from which we could see the…

More Paragliding. We took a highly touristy horse and buggy ride around the town. Then to a nearby chocolate shop where we watched a chocolate “show” which explained how…

We spent the morning travelling from Montreux to Interlaken on the Golden Pass Express. Being in the front carriage we had an exceptional view sideways with a large windows and…

After about a two hour train trip from Zermatt we arrived in Montreux. I was initially confused by Google Maps which gave the general impression we had to turn left after…

After a pleasant breakfast we headed for the nearby railway station (like, two minutes away!) and spent a considerable amount of money on purchasing tickets to go up to…

Today we went on an eight hour train trip from Saint Moritz to Zermatt on the Glacier Express. After some initial fog we passed through some more fantastic scenery. Finally we…

The views today have been pretty damn spectacular! We started with a three hour bus trip from Lugano to Tirano in Italy, where we had a brief rest whilst waiting for the…

Things are rather quiet here today, because it Sunday, and not many shops are open. However here are a few of the highlights of walking around the town. Very long stairway…

From Flüelen we took the Panorama Express through the Gotthard tunnel down to Lugano. Then in Lugano we ended up in this ultra modern hotel room. In Lucerne everyone spoke…

We took a paddle steamer from Luzern to Flüelen, from basically one end of Lake Lucerne to the other. There’s a bit of doubt in our minds about the exact name of the lake,…

We visited the nearby historical Museum which was a very impressive building. They had an extensive number of objects on display, in huge display cases stretching from the…

Today we walked up to the sad lion (Löwendenkmal). Then we visited the adjacent Glacier Museum.   Apparently the owners of an adjacent house were trying to dig a new wine…

Our hotel gave us a free ticket to travel on public transport here for the duration of our stay.  It was used today to go to the Lucerne Transport Museum.  It was extremely…

We arrived in Lucerne after a 45 minute ride on the intercity train.  The hotel was built before 1517 and apparently is an amalgamation of a number of smaller houses over the…

We paid a fairly short visit to the Zürich National Museum. They are currently extending it, so we did not experience the full grandeur of what the place must be in its heyday.…

For our last night in Zürich we decided to go to a restaurant directly across the road from the hotel. We didn’t realise until we got there but it is a very famous vegetarian…

(Uhrenmuseum Beyer) A whole lot of interesting historical clocks and watches.…

We arrived in Zürich on our Airbus A380–800. For the first time, in my experience, our aircraft had a camera which let you see out the front window to see what the pilots would…

We are preparing for departure. Our plan is to visit the following towns: The numbers in blue are the day number (day 1, day 4, etc.). The numbers in red are the number of…

Pictures of our trip to Broome in July 2018. Friday 20th July Inside the Cable Beach resort Our cabin Plenty of wallabies on the grounds! Cable Beach One of the many statues in…