And away we go!
21 мая, Австралия ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Goodbye Brisbane! Look out Brussels!
And we're flying Premium Economy. Pretty posh, eh?
Stay tuned
Brussels
23 мая, Бельгия ⋅ ☁️ 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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ПутешественникBruges was one of the first places I visited on my first trip to Europe many years ago. Fell in love with the place.
ПутешественникIt's a great place. Unfortunately we had a bit if rain the day we went but still really enjoyed it.
Bruges
24 мая, Бельгия ⋅ 🌧 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 мая, Бельгия ⋅ 🌬 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 мая, Бельгия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Next stop is Antwerp. Most impressed with the train station Antwerpen Centraal... Trains coming and going on 3 different levels.
Rotterdam
28 мая, Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 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 мая, Нидерланды ⋅ ☁️ 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 isЧитать далее
Gouda
31 мая, Нидерланды ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
Amsterdam
1 июня, Нидерланды ⋅ ☁️ 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 wasЧитать далее
Amersfoort and Ann Frank's House
2 июня, Нидерланды ⋅ ⛅ 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.
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Bremen
4 июня, Германия ⋅ 🌬 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.Читать далее
More Bremen
5 июня, Германия ⋅ ☁️ 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. QuiteЧитать далее
Hamburg
6 июня, Германия ⋅ 🌬 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 июня, Германия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Our second day in Hamburg, exploring the port district.
Odense
8 июня, Дания ⋅ 🌧 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 июня, Дания ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
Odense has some great old buildings and quirky statues.
Copenhagen
12 июня, Дания ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня, Дания ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
A few more photos of our stay in Copenhagen.
Helsingør
14 июня, Дания ⋅ ☀️ 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 HamletЧитать далее
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Pointy .. anti parachute device left over from earlier wars.
ПутешественникCheers 🍻 Can't afford to have too many here, they're pretty pricey
Gothenburg
16 июня, Швеция ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Next stop is Sweden, to the town of Gothenburg.
ПутешественникIt's not one of the prettiest cities of Europe but an interesting place to visit
Southern Archipelago
18 июня, Швеция ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
We took a ferry over to the group of islands off the coast of Gothenburg.
Oslo
20 июня, Норвегия ⋅ ⛅ 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 июня, Норвегия ⋅ ☀️ 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 июня, Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Spent our last day just wandering through the streets of Oslo.
Train to Flåm
23 июня, Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
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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]