KathyBall

Kuala Lumpor... the last leg home To avoid making it home with a bad case of jetlag, and because I had never been there before, we decided to spend 4 nights in Kuala Lumpor on the way home from London to Australia. Air Asia, the Airline that we were travelling with have their home base in Kuala Lumpor, and all of their London and Australian flights go through there. We landed at KL in the early evening, and as the airport is way south of the city, had a 1 hour bus trip to KL Centraal train station before the mandatory barter session with the taxi drivers, then finally the trip to the hotel. We chose the Swiss Garden hotel for our 4 day stay in KL, as the price was pretty good (around $90 per ... read more

Paris We arrived at 10.00am in Paris very tired and exhausted from our big overnight train trip with no sleep,and extremely long car trip in a cramped sports car. (this is Kath talking) The Hotel was quite close to the train station so it was not so bad walking. Thank god I bought Greg along this trip - his map reading skills have saved me hours of wondering and wandering and standing at train stations trying to work out which line etc. We arrived at hotel praying that the room would be ready for us, as check-in is normally 2pm and we had a tour on later that evening from 6pm till 1am and we both needed to get some sleep. Thankfully the room was ready, we both just crashed on the top of the bed ... read more

Audi Drivers day, Ingolstadt I want to start by saying that Kath has said that this is a pretty boring blog. I am hoping that she will write another blog to cover this, for all of those that don't like talking cars. I apologise in advance. Greg Well actually it was a 3 day driving event, and it went from Ingolstadt, in Germany, through Austria, to a hotel called Arosea Life Balance Hotel, near St Walberg, in Northern Italy. The driver’s day program is a program where you pay Audi to have any model car of your choice to drive for three days and stay overnight in luxury accommodation. Of course, because this program is not cheap, then you have to request the best that Audi can offer, and of course, Audi’s best is also currently ... read more

Amsterdam day 1 We arrived in Amsterdam in a train coming from the opposite direction to what was planned, and so the walking path to our accommodation was unexpectedly inverted. This caused a much longer walk from the station to our Amsterdam accommodation. We were still dragging our luggage behind us, and the walk was long and hot, but eventually, with a little help and a few mistakes we made it to the houseboat on the canal in Amsterdam for our accommodation hrs later than anticipated. We were staying on a houseboat called Mary-Annes Houseboat, and after the long walk from the station and after the train rides from the last 2 days, it was a very welcome sight. Kathy now- we got changed had a cold drink and headed into town, only 10 min walk ... read more

We spent two days in the Worcester district. This is because there are a couple of good things to see here, and one of them takes a full day so see. We had stayed in a little town near Worcester overnight to catch up with a friend of ours, Terry Walls. We stayed the first night at Terry’s house, and it was good to catch up with him. We left Terry’s house next morning and sent to an English Landmark called Wawrick Castle. This is England’s premier castle experience and is an old castle that has been turned into a great day out. It was a hot day (REALLY hot for UK standards… it was about 28 degrees and it was still holidays for the little English children, so the place was very popular that day. ... read more