15th June we left Frankfurt and caught the ICE train to Berlin travel time was about 4 hrs 15 mins staying at Intercity Berlin where we stayed 6 nights.
15th June we wandered around Berlin City the area where we were staying .16th June Berlin to Potsdam , sight seeing Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag Building Berliner Dom, Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. 17th June a day trip by train to Hamburg which too Read on...
The lockdown has now eased to allow overnight stays. Hotels have opened up. Pubs are allowed to have indoor drinkers. Attractions and cinemas can with limited numbers. However, the Spring weather has been shocking. Hospitality has had a slow from the long hibernation. The most hardy and desperate of drinkers must have winced about sitting outside in the cold and damp just to savour a pint. There Read on...
Heute war das erste Ziel des Tages die 28. Leider musste ich dafr wieder etwas anstehen. Zumindest hatte ich einen Sitzplatz am Fenster und kurz nach der Abfahrt ging es bergauf in den bekannten Stadtteil Alfama. Spter wieder durch das Zentrum und weiter in Richtung Westen, aber ich stieg aus, als die wichtigsten Viertel durchfahren waren. Danach nahm ich die gleiche Linie in entgegengesetzter Ri Read on...
After travelling from NP to Christchurch to Dunedin, we picked up our rental car with its superb but difficult to set, GPS. Our destination was Port Chalmers where we wanted to visit the Maritime Museum. It was a cold 10 degrees! What happened to summer?
Our destination was the Port Chalmers Maritime Museum which wed seen on TV before. It was well worth the visit and a credit to in recording the Read on...
Cest avec un immense soulagement que nous apprenons la fin de lobligation dun test de dpistage ngatif de la covid avant de rentrer au pays par voie terrestre. Enfin, nous pourrons dpasser les frontires avec notre petite famille. a tombe bien, le long cong de Pques sen vient! Une alors nous monter au cerveau. Et si on allait faire un tour aux USA? Jai en poche trois certificats de nuites gratuites Read on...
Heute musste ich relativ frh bis gegen 09:30 frhstcken (wurde offiziell nicht spter angeboten) und machte mich dann auf den Weg weiter nach Westen. Erster Halt war dabei die fr den Jakobsweg wichtige Stadt Burgos. Dort lief ich etwas im Stadtzentrum herum und die wichtigsten Sehenswrdigkeiten waren hier die Kathedrale, die Iglesia de San Esteban, das Castillo aber auch der Arco de Santa Maria. Ich Read on...
The woods are so pristine. No naked swathes of harvested trees, the gravel roads so good, no traffic, no people. What is the secret to these mid Pennsylvania forests ? I wondered as I wandered North. What goes on to make these roads so much better than those in Virginia, or West Virginia? I came across the secret soon enough -- the pipelines. For the first time the clusters of pipes and valves beg Read on...
It has been a difficult year and a half for everyone. One of the things we missed in 2020 was our annual road trip. This year, we are spending a lot of time with our daughter and her family. So this trip is rather disjointed. It will not be our usual week marathon, as in the past. But I plan to document as much of it as may be of interest to any of my dedicated readers.
We begin this trip with h Read on...
The drive from Port Douglas to Palm Cove was one of the most spectacular drives I have ever undertaken, and would rival any road trip across Australia, and would even rival some of the great European roads we have travelled. Captain Cook Highway follows the edge of the Far North Queensland coast that looks out to the Great Barrier Reef. Fortunately, the day we travelled it was clear and sunny, and Read on...
Ah, les Rocheuses! Tout les superlatifs du monde sont ici applicables, avec raison! La partie canadienne de ce grand systme montagneux qui traverse les Amriques attire depuis longtemps les amateurs de paysages et de randonne. Avant la pause pandmique, ils taient prs de cinq millions visiter le plus ancien (1885) et le plus clbre des parcs nationaux canadien, Banff. Aujourdhui, alors que le touris Read on...