And away we go!
5月21日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Goodbye Brisbane! Look out Brussels!
And we're flying Premium Economy. Pretty posh, eh?
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Brussels
5月23日, ベルギー ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
And our first stop is Brussels in Belgium. A lovely town with beutiful architecture. We loved the gold leaf applied to the front of the buildings.
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Bruges
5月24日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Took a day trip to the town of Bruges. It's a lovely little town with lots of canals and beer. Just like all the other Belgian towns I guess... 🤔
Ghent
5月25日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Another day trip to another beautiful Belgian town. Ghent has a lot of lovely architecture and history. Oh, and canals and beer 😁
Antwerp
5月27日, ベルギー ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Next stop is Antwerp. Most impressed with the train station Antwerpen Centraal... Trains coming and going on 3 different levels.
Rotterdam
5月28日, オランダ ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
We start our Netherlands tour at Rotterdam. It's a fair sized city, but has some interesting places to visit and serves well as a central point to explore the region.
Delft & Leiden
5月30日, オランダ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We jumped on the train for a day trip to the towns of Delft and Leiden.
Delft is a gorgeous little town that was the home of Johannes Vermeer, who painted The Girl With The Pearl Earring.
Leiden isもっと詳しく
Gouda
5月31日, オランダ ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Next up was a day trip to Gouda, famous for its cheese. But remember... next time you ask for the cheese, it's pronounced "How-duh", not "Goo-duh".
Anyway... Yes, the cheese was wonderful. As was theもっと詳しく
Amsterdam
6月1日, オランダ ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Today we jumped on an early train to go to Amsterdam and visit the places we missed the first time.
First up was the old Heineken brewery. It's a bit commercial with slick multimedia, but it wasもっと詳しく
Amersfoort and Ann Frank's House
6月2日, オランダ ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Because we had already spent time in Amsterdam, we decided to take a day trip to the lovely town of Amersfoort.
Afterwards, we got back to Amsterdam in the afternoon to take a canal tour.
Finally,もっと詳しく
Bremen
6月4日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌬 21 °C
Next stop is Bremen in Germany.
There are a number of statues across the town of a donkey, a dog, a cat and a chook. These are from a story by the Brothers Grimm called the Bremen Town Musicians.もっと詳しく
More Bremen
6月5日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Easy Day today with a walk through the Bürgerpark Bremen, or the Citizen's Park of Bremen.
It's quite a large park with kilometres of paths that wander through forests and across rivers. Quiteもっと詳しく
Hamburg
6月6日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Our next German city is Hamburg and no, hamburgers do not seem to be a thing here, except for McDonalds. 🙄
Funny day weather wise, alternating between sunny and rain.
More Hamburg
6月7日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Our second day in Hamburg, exploring the port district.
Odense
6月8日, デンマーク ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Denmark is our next destination. We stayed in the lovely little town of Odense, famous for being the home of Hans Christan Andersen.
More Odense
6月9日, デンマーク ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Odense has some great old buildings and quirky statues.
Copenhagen
6月12日, デンマーク ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We have been looking forward to visiting Copenhagen, and we were not disappointed. It's a bigger city than we expected and there's lots to see, so we got in a lot of steps.
More Copenhagen
6月13日, デンマーク ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
A few more photos of our stay in Copenhagen.
Helsingør
6月14日, デンマーク ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Before departing Copenhagen, we took a day trip by train up to the little beach town of Helsingør.
Its most famous landmark is Kronborg Castle, which was the setting in Shakespeare’s Hamletもっと詳しく
Gothenburg
6月16日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Next stop is Sweden, to the town of Gothenburg.
Southern Archipelago
6月18日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
We took a ferry over to the group of islands off the coast of Gothenburg.
Oslo
6月20日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
On to Norway, stopping for a few days in Oslo before starting out Fjord cruise.
The first day we visited the Botanical Gardens, which have an colourful display of unique flowers.
Also in the gardensもっと詳しく
Norwegian Culture Museum
6月21日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
While in Oslo, we took the ferry over to the Norwegian Culture Museum, a unique outdoor museum where they collect old, traditional buildings from around Norway.
More Oslo
6月22日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Spent our last day just wandering through the streets of Oslo.
Train to Flåm
6月23日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Now we start our tour of the Norwegian coast. The journey begins here in Oslo, where we will travel by train and ferry across the mountains to Bergen on the west coast. From there, we will board theもっと詳しく
旅行者
Wow, that looks nice. We'll have to let you know how AIRNZ compares.
I would think AIRNZ would be pretty good. Let us know. [Nicky]
How were the posh seats? Worth it? Enjoy beautiful Brussels. [Kezza]
Pretty damn good. Definitely worth it especially for the overnight flight to Dubai. Jazz festival in Brussel this weekend. [Nicky]