Time to fly

Look! Up in the air! Is it a bird, is it a plane? Yes, it's a plane, an A380 but it's not ours. It's Etihad Airways Paris to Dubai, flying over Zagreb. Ours is just a tiny jet way out on the tarmac,Weiterlesen
Look! Up in the air! Is it a bird, is it a plane? Yes, it's a plane, an A380 but it's not ours. It's Etihad Airways Paris to Dubai, flying over Zagreb. Ours is just a tiny jet way out on the tarmac,Weiterlesen
The first things you notice about Copenhagen-
There are nicely separated bike lanes on almost all the roads.
There are cyclists in the bike lanes everywhere.
There are bikes everywhere.
Nearly allWeiterlesen
It's only a short trip across The Bridge so why not?
The bridge linking Denmark with Sweden starts as an underwater tunnel so as not to interfere with air traffic at Copenhagen airport next door. ItWeiterlesen
Next stop Hamburg.
Booking the train trip was rather confusing for an amateur due to track construction work so we opted to fly. After a propeller plane across the Alps to Zagreb, a small jet toWeiterlesen
Okay, I confess. The real reason for visiting Hamburg was one of Germany's biggest tourist attractions, Miniatur Wunderland - the world's biggest model railway.
They have scenes based on locationsWeiterlesen
As well as the Beatles trail, model trains and planes and sausages, Hamburg has some other strange food, some buildings that survived the WW2 blitz and some restored.
It also has good bike paths forWeiterlesen
This is our first, multi-leg rail trip in Europe, quite a logistical challenge for a beginner. 4 legs, three changes. How long do you need for changes? How hard is it to find the right platform? HowWeiterlesen
Amsterdam is.... well, Amsterdam.
They have some rather different museums to other cities.
A cow museum, a torture museum (Zagreb also has one of these), a sex museum, a prostitution museum (sorry,Weiterlesen
Amsterdam is also a city of culture and beauty with a mix of modern lifestyle.
Of all the famous paintings in all the famous museums and galleries to which I've been, which admittedly isn't many,Weiterlesen
Leiden was a pleasant surprise. A smaller town between Amsterdam and The Hauge, it is very pretty, very Dutch, very old yet very modern.
Everybody rides bikes everywhere. Whether going to theWeiterlesen