christopher perrott
"Discovered" travel a few years ago, and now confine myself to europe as i hate long plane journeys...maybe i'll take a container-ship around the world. now, there's a thought! chrisp40
Travel Blog Posts
May 19th 2005
Vilnius, city of cobbled streets and numerous churches. Architecture from every influence; Gothic, Romantic, you name it it's here. Watch the world go by outside one of the delightful cafes in the old town. Gaze in amazement as impossibly tall thin women manage to negotiate the cobbled streets wearing impossibly tall thin heeled shoes (even in winter) I arrived here on a wet and cold evening, and found my apartment, which was tucked away in a typical old-town location, narrow cobbled street and tall building. I'd reccommend picking up a copy of the now essential In Your Pocket guide, at 5 litas. There are other guides given out free of charge along the same lines as In Your Pocket such as Exploring Vilnius, which can be found in hotel lobbies and tourist information centres. The whole ... read more
November 19th 2004
So, here we are in Ypres, close to many of the famous WW1 battlefields such as the Somme and Passchendaele. Ypres itself was flattened during the war, but has been completely re-built, even the Cathedral. The Cloth Hall now houses a new museum, which to be honest i found slightly antiseptic compared to many of the others we visited. The Numbers involved in the war even today stagger me. What's more astonishig are the individual stories contained in books written by authors such as Lyn Mcdonald. Much of this area is under sea level, and for centuries culverts had been maintained by local farmers to drain the fields. As the war drew on, these were destroyed by enemy shelling and the whole area turned into a quagmire of epic proportions, not helped by the dreadful winter ... read more
February 24th 2004
Well here i was after a hectic couple of weeks travelling around some of the main attractions of Thailand. Most of the pics here are of the floating hotel on the River Kwai, which simply has to be the most magical places i've ever stayed, including palace type hotels in India . Anyway this little 2 day tour took in various spots, including (irritatingly) the usual chance to buy artefacts at the tour guides' favourite shops. I hate that!. Moan over, we first visited Hellfire Pass, part of the "Railway of Death" constructed by Allied POW's and anyone else the Japanese didnt like the look of. This included many many thousands of local people who for one reason or another upset the occupying forces, and is something not often documented, so i have. There is a ... read more
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