Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I’ve lived in Reading for over 35 years now and have seen the much maligned town (Her Maj has refused on several occasions to grant it city status) go from strength to strength. This has been helped in part but a much more cohesive offering around the cultural aspects of the town such as the …
It was only a few weeks ago that I was trying to refute that I’m not some closet trainspotter, yet here I am at Didcot Railway Centre looking at steam trains. To be fair, I was there so that my granddaughter could see Paddington (the bear) but that does still seem to leave me on …
Last day of the holiday and I was glad we weren’t getting the Manchester flight as that would have required a very early start since the coach was leaving the boat at 04:30! As we weren’t due to leave until 14:30 we had the rest of the morning to explore. We had decided on a …
The weather certainly has been variable on this trip. We started the week in macs and ended it in tee shirts and shades. It has been beautiful today, hot and sunny, leaving its mark on the top of my head. As Uber is banned here in Budapest we used local taxis via the Bolt app …
Almost every aspect of being on the river cruise boat has been wonderful with the exception of the temperature onboard – which has been boiling. The cruise director, in one of her regular talks, explained that the “ship had thought that it was winter” as if it was some sort of sentient being rather than …
Having been to Vienna a couple of times before we were able to quickly build an itinerary of places to visit with my parents. To do this we had decided to take the hop-on, hop-off bus – the only problem was that there was some confusion as to where the bus actually went from. We …
We’d traveled overnight from Linz further down the Danube to the small town of Melk. I’m told that we passed through a lock at midnight but I slept through that. I’m hoping that we pass through one in the daylight as they really are a sight to behold. Melk We’d not been to Melk before …
Continue reading “Danube 2023 – Day Three – Melk and Weissenkirchen”
I’m beginning to suspect that it is always raining in Linz as I have been twice now and it has rained both times. This is a great shame as it is a beautiful place but hard to really enjoy and love in the grey drizzle. We had intended to be outside this morning but decided …
We went on a river cruise down the Danube a year ago and were so enamoured with it that we asked my parents if they would like to come with us on a similar trip this year. They did and here we all are. It has been a very long time since I have been …
Continue reading “Danube 2023 – Day One – Stepping Back in Time”
Visit Britain ran a promotion recently whereby if you signed up to their marketing emails you got in return a £20 voucher, which just goes to show how much your personal data is worth these days. Figuring that whoever wants my personal data already has it I signed up and duly received my voucher. The …