Travel

I go places and then write about them, or I write about places then I go there…or I write about places that I want to go to, and I’ve been places that I don’t want to write about.

Amsterdam and beyond…

Don’t mind me, I’m just back from the red light district. None of us got up to no-good, I promise. The day started innocently enough at Zaanse Shans, the historical village style tourist attraction made up of a dozen or so windmills. The day was beautiful and warm and apart from the squillions of other […]

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Woken by church bells in the hills above Verona

Hell yes, I’ve been camping. Do I like it? Depends on where… From my experience, camping in Australia was a full contact sport. There are a lot of creepy crawlies. I do not like it. Camping in England required wet-weather gear – as pajamas. Camping in Scotland required a heater, in the Summer. Camping in […]

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Train all the way!

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? We will be flying from Amsterdam to Budapest in August as that’s a long trip by train but the reverse journey will be the slow and scenic way. Travel then from Budapest to Paris will be done in daytime train trips with two […]

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