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  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 1

    Who is buying what!!

    August 1, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    One of the unanswered question of our time is “What were the two nuns buying in the Rolex Store” at Sydney Airport?

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 1

    Day 1 - Off Again

    August 1, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    A rush of blood to the brain and fiscal irresponsibility sees us headed to Europe in 2018.

    There's a heatwave on the Continent, its high tourist season, English school holidays are on for the entire month we are there and Donald Trump is President.

    What could possibly go?

    It is always a pleasure to have you along with us but we understand that it’s a rather long journey so we won’t send you a post notification each time.

    If you are absolutely masochist and need a notification for each post you will need to join up to Finding Penguins.

    Our old blog site has closed down and this one is a little different so there will be more posts as the day progresses.

    Off we go.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 2

    Day 2 Copenhagen

    August 2, 2018 in Denmark ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Very good flight with Scandinavian Airlines at a very good price.
    That is why we are going to England via Copenhagen. Only thing Is that the whole flight was with SingaporeAir. The only thing SAS did was collect the money. Quite happy with that as have always had a great experience with Singapore. Although they don’t offer you dried reindeer jerky at 4am as we experienced with SAS.

    Before you know it we are in Copenhagen at 6:20 when not even the drunks were up. Although that’s not true as at 7:45 we did see a well dress bar worker having his first Tuborg of the day, or maybe it was his last.

    The rest of the city opens at about 1000 so we had a little walk around and around and around. Marks fitbit reckons it was about 8.2 Km although it was a little confused as Wednesday had been restarted three times.

    Bernadette had a plan to go to an art gallery some 45mins outside of Copenhagen.
    Two complicating factors, it didn’t open until 1100 and the railway is being updated so it’s a train, a bus and a kilometre walk. What could possibly go wrong.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 2

    Day 2 - Copenhagen

    August 2, 2018 in Denmark ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    The Plan.
    Things went well after a slight debacle finding the correct train. We did get to meet a charming, multilingual French lady who joined us in our confusion but with a better map.

    Louisiana opened in 1958 as a private museum for modern art. It’s based on an old country house that’s grown and grown.
    It looks across the water at Sweden and the location is stunning.

    Why Louisiana? The noble bloke who originally owned the property married three women all called Louise. Must have made everyone’s life easier.

    Great place but at 28 degrees and more than a little jet lagged it’s a bit of a blur.

    Back to Copenhagen in a Togbus (rail bus for the non Danish speakers) successfully found our hotel which is way to cool for people of our ilk and an early night of interrupted sleep.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 3

    Day 3 Copenhagen

    August 3, 2018 in Denmark ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    A word on where we are staying.
    Think Central Station trendy.

    Has all the features; noisy location, loud locals, early morning prostitutes (she didn’t appear to disappointed when Mark said “No thank you”, vomit in the morning and a siren during the night that we though was a Ragnarok warning.
    And because it is so hot and air conditioning is a fable the Danes don’t really get, all the triple insulated windows remain open.
    The hotel for some reason has a Balinese bed theme, very pleasant courtyard, a bathroom the size of a second thought, a cowhide lined lift and an honour system for payment of the breakfast buffet.
    It is either destined for greatness or insolvency.

    We are by far the oldest, least hip people in the place but at least no one has offered to carry our bags.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 3

    Day 3 Copenhagen - Christianborg Palace

    August 3, 2018 in Denmark ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    So the day could start.

    Walked to see the Winter Garden at the Glytptotek museum, the museum was closed and we planned to come back in the afternoon.
    Well that was another story.

    Lovely little garden at the back of the museum with the biggest bees north of the Pennines.

    On to the Christianborg Palace which is a combination formal Royal Residence, Parliament building, Prime Minister's Office and Supreme Court.
    It’s a big place. Has 4 four museums and a lovely garden. Cleanest, best kept building like this we have ever seen.
    Helps when politicians have skin in the game.
    There has been a structure on the site since the 12th century and is the founding location of Copenhagen. The palace has burnt down twice and was only rebuilt in 1927. When it was last burnt in 1884, one of the problems with putting oot the fire was that the firemen were refused entry to the main hall of the place because the floor had just been waxed. Talk about house proud!
    Excellent way to spend the morning.
    We do not think this area has a drunk problem.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 3

    Day 3 Copenhagen - Danish Design Museum

    August 3, 2018 in England ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

    It was only 28 degrees so we decided to walk the short distance to the Danish Design Museum. Mark had lied and it was closer to 2 kilometres. But it was a nice day.
    Observed the Danish art of riding a bicycle holding two large bunches of flowers while smoking. True talent.

    Great place originally built as the first hospital in 1774.

    Now has a great collection of Danish design icons, the everyday item and the completely useless.

    Has a Chair Hall with a fantastic collection of iconic chairs from the world’s best designers and probably now worth a zillion dollars. Tried our first smorgasbord sandwich for lunch and although unusual was very tasty. Thinking the sign on the table was something important we tried Google Translate to discover it said “Don’t move the Bench”. Bit if an anticlimax really.

    Terrific place with far to much to see.

    Back to the hotel for dinner down the road at an Asian restaurant and a kiwi waitress originally from Argentina who spoke no Danish. You couldn’t make it up.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 4

    Day 4 Copenhagen to Harewood

    August 4, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    It was a travel day, Copenhagen to Harewood. Usual things to expect; train, plane , bus, car, queue, questions, wait. Repeat.

    Thanks to all our neighbours we were up with plenty of time to make the plane.

    Thinking the airport might be air conditioned we were at the station by 6:40 (the flight was 10:10 with a 13 minute train trip so it was never going to be close run thing). As it turned out it may have been but it wasn’t as we know it.

    Past the morning meeting of the Copenhagen Collective of Ladies of the Street Corner and a number of hopefully hangover suffering locals and an easy ride Copenhagen Lufthavn.

    When you travel with cheap airlines you expect to walk to the opposite end of the terminal to check in, the other end to go through security, back to the other end to board. We had almost walked to Manchester.
    Most entertaining was the three elderly Americans grappling with self checkin and baggage drop. They were eventually handheld through the process, although the lady whose hand luggage looked like it had exploded and whose booked luggage was already overweight is probably still trying to make the gate.

    Car pickup at Manchester where the line was as long as the one trying to get on the plane. The Hertz agent told me he was going to get a coffee but realised he’d be lynched if he left the counter. Wise call.

    Easy drive to Harewood to the fine residence of Kate, David and Charlie and a delightful walk in the local woods and a chicken curry in the backyard to round off the day.

    Charlie was at first a little reluctant to talk to Mark (a view held by many young children) but relented when she realised that he didn’t colour in between the lines as well as she did and need some instruction.

    Early sort of night and an most enjoyable day. Always is when your transport gets you where you hope.    Read more

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    Day 5

    Harlow Carr

    August 5, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Off to Harlow Carr, a Royal Horticultural Society garden just up the road from Harewood.

    Beside being a fantastic garden the place also has a local Bettys. (No apostrophe) Bettys is a local icon based in Harrogate. It was founded by a lost Swiss pastry chef in the 1919. He accidentally got on the train to Yorkshire and the rest is a hundred years of clogging arteries.

    It’s a great place with disgraceful pastries and cakes. I will admit that a lot of people appeared to have been taken there by their children as a day out from the Home. Hope Kate didn’t feel like a carer.

    All of this before we got inside.

    The gardens are very impressive even in 27 degree heat. Every sort of plant you could imagine. Also had a somewhat aged men’s choir serenading the crowd, a giant fly and columns. The great English custom of lets bring a chair and sit about until something happens was much in evidence. What else could you ask.

    Charlie bore it all well. (Being pushed around in a pram when she got weary helped a lot).

    And this was only the morning.    Read more

  • TravelerThis Has to Stop.
    Day 6

    Day 6 - Belsay Hall and Castle

    August 6, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    This is a very unusual English Heritage property as it has a whole building. Had nothing inside I’ll admit but is more than the usual ruin. Having said that there is a ruined castle on the site.

    The house was built between 1810 and 1817 for Sir Charles Monck to his own design in the the Greek Doric style.

    It measures 100 feet (30 m) square!

    The stone was quarried on the estate and the quarry was turned into a fantastic walk linking the old medieval castle where family used to live. As is the case he also built a new village as the old one spoiled the view.

    Excellent start to touring,    Read more

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