And away we go!
21 de maio, Austrália ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Goodbye Brisbane! Look out Brussels!
And we're flying Premium Economy. Pretty posh, eh?
Stay tuned
Brussels
23 de maio, Bélgica ⋅ ☁️ 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
24 de maio, Bélgica ⋅ 🌧 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
25 de maio, Bélgica ⋅ 🌬 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
27 de maio, Bélgica ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Next stop is Antwerp. Most impressed with the train station Antwerpen Centraal... Trains coming and going on 3 different levels.
Rotterdam
28 de maio, Países Baixos ⋅ ⛅ 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
30 de maio, Países Baixos ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Gouda
31 de maio, Países Baixos ⋅ ☁️ 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 theLeia mais
Amsterdam
1 de junho, Países Baixos ⋅ ☁️ 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 wasLeia mais
Amersfoort and Ann Frank's House
2 de junho, Países Baixos ⋅ ⛅ 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,Leia mais
Bremen
4 de junho, Alemanha ⋅ 🌬 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.Leia mais
More Bremen
5 de junho, Alemanha ⋅ ☁️ 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. QuiteLeia mais
Hamburg
6 de junho, Alemanha ⋅ 🌬 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
7 de junho, Alemanha ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Our second day in Hamburg, exploring the port district.
Odense
8 de junho, Dinamarca ⋅ 🌧 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
9 de junho, Dinamarca ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Odense has some great old buildings and quirky statues.
Copenhagen
12 de junho, Dinamarca ⋅ ☀️ 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
13 de junho, Dinamarca ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
A few more photos of our stay in Copenhagen.
Helsingør
14 de junho, Dinamarca ⋅ ☀️ 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 HamletLeia mais
ViajanteCheers 🍻 Can't afford to have too many here, they're pretty pricey
Gothenburg
16 de junho, Suécia ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Next stop is Sweden, to the town of Gothenburg.
Southern Archipelago
18 de junho, Suécia ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
We took a ferry over to the group of islands off the coast of Gothenburg.
Oslo
20 de junho, Noruega ⋅ ⛅ 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.
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Norwegian Culture Museum
21 de junho, Noruega ⋅ ☀️ 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
22 de junho, Noruega ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Spent our last day just wandering through the streets of Oslo.
Train to Flåm
23 de junho, Noruega ⋅ ☁️ 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 theLeia mais
Viajante
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]