European Whirl Tour 2024

Some thoughts and observations from our trip to Europe and the UK.

👎 UK are terrible at Jay-walking do it all the time,
👎 Many travellers are obsessed with posing for selfies. You see them more interested in how they are looking and standing, than the beautiful sights they are in.
👍 Lego is cheaper in NZ.
👎 Nearly everything else is more expensive overseas, we paid $80 nzd for 2 cocktails and a bowl of fries in Switzerland.
🖐️ We have no concept of old in NZ. We had some tea in a little place in York that was 700 years old and the new extension was 200 years old!
🤌 Strange having to pay to go to the toilet, ‘Pay to Pee’ as Paul calls it. But Lyn did in one establishment get shown to the next available cubicle.
👍 The underground tube is a wonderful thing, so easy once you know how.
✌️You can wear the same shirt multiple times over 4 weeks without it getting washed … who knew?
🖕There can be some very self centred people when travelling with no awareness of others around them.
👍 On our tour we had magic bags, in the morning you leave them outside your room at one hotel and then in the evening they magically appear at your new hotel … amazing!
👌 You don’t eat all you can eat at ‘all you can eat’ breakfasts.
🤌 There are many many places going cashless.
👍 They don’t charge the extra % for using visa overseas, just here in NZ … go figure.
👍 London and the UK can have fine blue sky days … no one told us about that.
👍 Autobahns are amazing, all the trucks, motor homes, caravans travel in the outside line all doing 90k with hardly any overtaking. Middle lane traffic does around 100k and inside lane unlimited, go what you want.
👉 In parts of Europe like Germany there are so many wind farms for electricity, kind of a blot on the landscape. Yet none in France as they have nuclear.
👎 No one in the UK or Europe truly knows what a Flat White is, we quickly discovered best was to order a Caffe Latte, or Cappuccino.
👎 In parts of Europe they have this strange way of getting your coffee, you pay at one counter and receive a receipt that you then go and fight your way through everyone else at another counter to show your receipt and then get your coffee made .,. Italy
👍A few essential items while travelling;
1/ The Wise Visa card and app. So easy and cheap to convert money between currencies.
2/ Our multi-country power adaptor for 3 pin plugs and USB.
3/ A portable power bank for our phones. Phone used so much more power when using it all the time taking pictures, checking Google maps, or researching something.
4/ Loved our Limux portable camera with its big zoom lens.
👍 You can travel days overseas to see picturesque sights and here in NZ you only need to travel minutes or hours. NZ is beautiful.Read more