Definition of relief
2 lipca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
This is what relief looks like!!.... passports in hand and all checked in on way to Brisbane. Sad to say goodbye to NZ but excited for next few months.
Wellington
2 lipca 2019, Nowa Zelandia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Passports safely picked up!!!!
Not the best start to the morning!
3 lipca 2019, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Thank god for a morning full bladder despite a planned sleep in.
Kate checked email.... and found out Brisbane to HongKong flight was cancelled!
Luckily the travel agent (who we had to use after our Czytaj więcej
Great day in Amsterdam
4 lipca 2019, Holandia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Had a v successful day in beautiful Amsterdam. Landed at 8am after long flights from Brisbane.
Got to accomm and then managed to get to city. Found ourselves with food canalside in the sun by Czytaj więcej
Start of the Tour de France!!
6 lipca 2019, Belgia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Great morning!! Positioned right at the front of the podium for the riders sign in..... little did we realise it was 11am not 9am! Got a great view of the actual yellow jersey.
Won ugly hats by Czytaj więcej
Finish of the Tour de France Day 1
6 lipca 2019, Belgia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Sadly didn’t make it to the finish line of the TDF as just too many people deep to be able to get a good view so settled for a great spot just before the 1kms to go banner.
Cheered everyone in and Czytaj więcej
Tour de France Day 2- Team time trial
7 lipca 2019, Belgia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Another cracking day stood at the start of the Team Time Trial where the teams race over 27,6kms reaching speeds of 64kms!!!
The winning team contained George Bennett our NZ rider from Nelson!!
Worth Czytaj więcej
Bookings and Belgian Waffles
8 lipca 2019, Belgia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Today didn’t go quite as planned as we checked out of our Grand Place apartment and into a hastily booked new apartment...... only to find T had not realised the booking made last night was for 8th Czytaj więcej
Atomium and Plasticarium
9 lipca 2019, Belgia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Amazing morning at the Atomarium built for the 1958 World Expo.
Mind blowing visual exhibition inside called “ A circular journey”- could have spent hours watching.
Beat any expectations.
The Czytaj więcej
Design museum and videos from atomarium
9 lipca 2019, Belgia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
We felt a bit guilty enjoying so much plastic!!
.... and the travel fun continues
10 lipca 2019, Niemcy ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
The joys of travelling- 05.45am start. First train was all on time from Brussels to Cologne. Cologne to Hamburg train was 35 mins late so we missed our connecting train.
Now have a ticket for the Czytaj więcej
Copenhagen
10 lipca 2019, Dania ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
15 hours later we arrive in Copenhagen!! The highlight of the day was when the train drove into the ferry, we had to disembark up to the ferry deck and then after 45 mins of sailing we all re boarded Czytaj więcej
Copenhagen- full day
11 lipca 2019, Dania ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
5 hours at the National Museum learning about Viking history and also Ghengis Khan and Mongolia (a little research for later in the trip!). The museum had so many excellent exhibits we just didn’t Czytaj więcej
10.50pm and it's still light- Hirtshals
12 lipca 2019, Dania ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Started the day in Copenhagen with a visit to the Design Museum. Followed this with a 7 hour bus trip to Hirtshals for the sunset... and preparation for our ferry trip north tomorrow.
Amazing sunset Czytaj więcej
Morning Medicine the Danish way
13 lipca 2019, North Sea ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
So the warning came true- we were met with the most amazing breakfast buffet.... and small glasses of Danish rocket fuel! Apparently it was made with yellow snare, Heather and dune rose.... and brewed Czytaj więcej
Arrival into the Faroe Islands
14 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
After a lecture on the Faroese Language and also learning that Faroese DNA resulted in males being mainly Norwegian but female DNA were surprisingly Scottish and Irish, we sailed into Tórshavn at Czytaj więcej
Torshavn and National Museum
15 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Had a pretty relaxed day today orientating ourselves around Tórshavn using the free local buses.
Parliament is in grass roofed buildings in the historic area- v nice place to work.
Several times we Czytaj więcej
Driftwood
15 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
So whilst visiting the open air farmhouse museum yesterday I was admiring the beautiful wooden ceiling beams and the crafted walls.
I asked the person in attendance “ why type of wood are these Czytaj więcej
Not so easy to see Nolsoy
16 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Well today we headed out early for an easy 6 hour walk in the eastern island of Nólsoy.
We got off the ferry to fog which was expected and managed to pick up a Danish student who wanted to walk with Czytaj więcej
Early beers back in Torshavn
16 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Just some photos from our post Nólsoy walk around Tórshavn where we knew where we were!!!
Puffins 1-0 waterproof gear
17 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
Writing this sitting in a downstairs cellar with 30 other dripping wet people all waiting 3 hours for the ferry from Mykines to Sørvágor.
Had a fabulous ferry trip passing the impressive sea cliffs Czytaj więcej
Klaksvik to Hattarvik
18 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
A very relaxed day after getting 4 buses and a return ferry trip to the far north east islands.
Started the day off in the town of Klaksvík before sailing for 2 hours puffin spotting and enjoying the Czytaj więcej
Last day in Faroes- Sandur and fish soup
19 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Cracking last day on 4 buses and 2 ferries to Sandur and back.
Sandur is a v historic village where legend says there lived 2 witches. Anyway for some reason the locals have covered a huge rock in the Czytaj więcej
See u Faroe Islands- its been fab
19 lipca 2019, Wyspy Owcze ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Few last bits and pieces we have missed
- they grow a lot of rhubarb
-puffins are not designed for flying
- faroe’s has 2 of the most amazing undersea tunnels which cost 4 billion krona
- they r Czytaj więcej
? Too old to be sleeping in airports!
20 lipca 2019, Dania ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
After a foggy farewell to the Faroes we had a v comfy flight back to Copenhagen with Atlantic Airlines.
Sadly the Faroes were so blanketed in fog we didn’t get an aerial view which was a Czytaj więcej































































































































































































PodróżnikHappy travels!x
Glad you got your passports but can't find the silverware...Enjoy and thank you for the card - assuming beautiful photo is yours Kate.
PodróżnikA great start to a trip!
Wow not a great start.All good from now on.Have fun .x Val