Good Friday and Easter Saturday in Prague Because we enjoyed the company and the great depth of knowledge of our new best friend and guide, Slavek, we booked him again for Good Friday. We met him at our hotel in the morning and headed off to explore the old town and the Jewish quarter. When you learn more and more of what life was like under the previous communist regime, you say your prayers of thanks for what our life is like back home. It really is quite incomprehensible that it was only a few years ago that life for the Czech’s changed so dramatically. As Slavek puts it, on the 17th of November 1989, they were reborn. Slavek took us to various memorials that commemorate the struggle for democracy over the years and explained in ... read more

Arrived safe and sound, Hi guys, we have arrived in Prague, safe and sound but a bit bloody cold. We had a very long trip, just over 34 hours in fact. Have to say the kids were absolutely fantastic. Deb’s sister Lil very kindly drove us to Brisbane airport after a couple of nights with Debs Dad, Buster. It was a great chance to catch up with him and Debs family. We left Brisbane and flew to Singapore and made the most of the movies on demand feature which has been in for some time but we had not used it before. Got to Singapore with a few square eyes amongst us and we had a couple of hours to wait till we boarded our place for Amsterdam and onto Prague. Deb and the girls made ... read more

We are heading off next Tuesday, flying out from Brisbane to Prague, via Singapore and Amsterdam. We have been pretty busy, getting ready, packing for the four of us, Dad, Mum, a teenage daughter and our youngest daughter who is just 8. In reality we have to pack for a couple of seasons, although it is Spring in Europe, we are heading to Prague first and then to Nuremberg in Germany, catching up with friends before we fly down to Dubrovnik on the 30th of March. Hopefully, we might leave the cold behind once we hit Croatia and it continues to warm up for when we pick our yacht up in Sukosan on the 4th of April for a month of Cruising the Dalmation Coast. We will have to wait and see. We take the yacht ... read more