Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It has been quite a while since I have been down to the Historic Dockyards at Portsmouth but there is so much there that it is always worth a visit. Going there on what was predicted to be the hottest day of the year probably wasn’t the smartest move but we’d planned it for a …
And back again. The cruise boat left Vienna and travelled overnight back to our embarcation port of Budapest where we left just a week ago. We hadn’t had much of an opportunity to do any sightseeing when we arrived so we planned to rectify that today. We have been to Budapest a couple of times …
We’d been to Vienna before so today we knew what to expect as we wandered the streets in search of the cities finest architecture. I’m not going to cover that again here because you can read details from our previous visit. On thing that is worth exploring from the morning was our visit to the …
For reasons that I don’t quite understand some of my friends seem to think that I am a bit of a trainspotter. This is not to imply that I like standing at the end of chilly platforms waiting for the latest double bogied diesel to come through and nor do I run a popular Tik-Tok …
Given we had a bonus stop overnight in Engelszell it seemed rude not to step out and pay it a visit. It was a tiny place with a huge monastery complete with the cliche beer brewing monks. At the other end of the village was a pretty, well tended church and that was it basically. …
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Today we visited Krems, Austria a place too small to have its own entry in the walking app. It appeared to be nothing much more than a village so I was surprised when I looked it up on Wikipedia and found that it has twice the population of Wantage, the place I was born. Where …
We weren’t due to arrive at Bratislava until early in the afternoon and so we spent the morning on the boat watching the world go by. For the most part it was just beautiful tree lined banks with the odd fisherman here and there thrown in for a bit of variety. Then we could see …
Never has there been a more stressful start to a holiday than this. The rumbling on of the pandemic means that there are more hoops to jump through before you can, in our case, set sail to foreign climes. This started a few days before we were due to fly out to Budapest for the …
For the last seven years (2014/5, 2015/6, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21) I have been documenting our attempts to get out between Christmas and the New Year to get some fresh air and burn off gained calories. The very last paragraph of last year’s entry ended thus: The hope was that things might be better …
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