• Abbey Whelan
  • Stuart Hawkins
  • Abbey Whelan
  • Stuart Hawkins

Honeymoon

A 40-day adventure by Abbey & Stuart Read more
  • Rome adventures

    September 28, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Last night in Rome! Food was great.... except for that dodgy "italain sausage and potato pizze" just a woolies snag amd chips

  • Florence

    September 29, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Florence was awesome! Beautiful city with great food. We did a food tour the first night, then may have snuck in a sneaky ravioli in butter and sage afterwards while admiring the Duomo!

  • Big bloody steak!

    September 30, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Got us a 1.3kg floretine steak! Was bloody good! Abbey was full for the next 2 days
    Had some delecious wine and cheese to go with it. Not to mention the roast potatoes. 😋

  • An unfortunate accident

    September 30, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Stuart dropped his phone 😞 so we bought a new one. The camera isn't as good, and we then, obviously, had to have a few beverages while he attempted to retrieve all his passwords.

  • Florence fun

    September 30, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Found a hole in the wall that sells wine! How good.
    Some of the best gnocchi, light amd fluffy, and we got to sample the John Travolter sauce, bloody sensational!

  • Tuscan vespa day

    October 1, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Went on a nice ride through Tuscany and had lunch in someone's backyard. The tomatoes were delicious, tried not to offend the nonna, and eat them all, but there were too many.

  • Last day in Florence

    October 2, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Nice, quiet day, delicious food and wine all day!

    Abbey loves her pizza, got 3 today! The last one with Gorgonzola, yummo.

  • Train day! Literally

    October 3, 2023 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

    12 hours on trains! No wifi and crammed in for 7 hours. Abbey listened to her audio book while stuart sulked.

    Went through Austria, and it was as epic as you would think.

    Good news: The second train had a bar cart 👍
    Made it to our hotel by 10.30pm and they made us a toastie.
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  • Stuttgart Volkfest round 1 🍻🍻

    October 4, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Volksfest day 1! Lots of great beer and good laughs.
    Got a great half chicken and foot long bratwurst!!
    Stuart also shot 10/10...
    Abbey got us on the wrong train home! Good times.

  • Stuttgart Volkfest round 2 🍻 🍻

    October 6, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Stuart got his stein and pork knuckle!
    Many many beers flowed, had a great night. Met some cool people from england and drank beers with them while singing "sweet Caroline" with 3000 others! Such a good night.

    Then a steak sandwich and some chips with tomato sauce and Mayo to top it all off.
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  • Munich adventures

    October 8, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Went to Hofbräuhaus for lunch, pub built in 16th century, Stuart got another pork knuckle.. reckons it was better. Schnitzel was phenomenal!
    Scored tickets to a Bayern Munich home game, such a good experience! 70,000 in the house cheering them on. They got a 3 nil win so crowd was crazy

    And Stuart didn't realise his cup was 2 euros 😞
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  • Last day in Munich

    October 10, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Nothing too crazy, Stu had a beer day to himself (Abs caught a cold) and bought a stein to bring home.

    The trooper made it out for dinner.

  • Spa night in Prague

    October 11, 2023 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Spa night with keg of beer! Good way to shake off a 5 hour train ride!

    Good feed afterwards too, roast beef was sensational.

    Then a sneaky cocktail afterwards.

  • Prague pub tour

    October 12, 2023 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Lazy morning, then went on a pub tour through the town, heaps of history and pop culture all about Prague. It was pretty cool!

    The Rolling Stones paid for the first set of lights for Prague castle and the Czech drink the most beer in the world.

    Then some glow in the dark mini golf... we came out even. It was tense.
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  • Hike and lunch

    October 13, 2023 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Promises were made of a brewery at the end of the hike.... there was no brewery. (There was so)

    Pretty cool though, had lunch in a castle, then stopped at a brewery on the way home.

  • Monarch steak house

    October 13, 2023 in Czech Republic ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    Steaks were elite, we highly recommend them!

    Bone marrow bread was pretty tasty as well.

    Then tried to find a cocktail bar that had room for us, found one but some stairs were involved (Stuart managed).Read more

  • Last day in Prague

    October 14, 2023 in Czech Republic ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

    Guns, unbelievable feed at "Porkies" followed by a tour of the castle.
    Finished the night off with fried cheese (overrated) and beers.

  • Home sweet home

    October 18, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 10 °C

    After over 30 hours of transit; a train, a plane, a long wait in Hong Kong with some yummy noodles for breakfast, then another plane (sitting in front of some extremely rude people), then finally an uber. We're home!

    Couldn't be happier to come back to lovely clean sheets on our lovely big bed. And some essential (ham and cheese) supplies in the fridge. Not to mention the freshly mowed lawn.

    Dogs came round next morning, I think they missed us.
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    Trip end
    October 18, 2023