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Travel Blog Prague 4 - 8 August 2014 4 August Monday Our hotel room on the fourth floor looked over a road to a huge park with many paths leading up the hill. After so much timetabling and early starts on the cruise, we took our time to get going today, doing emails, working out the currency and banking situation. Dave was pretty keen to do some laundry, so after some research and also a check with the front desk, we headed off to find and check out the laundromat. We walked the 1.6 kms, on an empty stomach I might add, starting at quite touristy areas, which progressed into quite grotty looking market area, and then into even more grotty flats and bridges. And this is where we found our laundrette. Quite an unusual set ... read more

Brussels 10 - 18 July 2014 14 July Monday Paris on to Brussels We woke thinking we had plenty of time, but soon discovered that our train was an hour earlier than anticipated due to Dave's misread of the train ticket (he looked at the time of day he purchased the ticket in Perth instead of the train departure time), so we had a mild panic to get to Gare du Nord. It was Bastille Day public holiday and roads were closed for the parade. There were no taxis available from hotel, but the concierge suggested we walk to the rank at Rue de Bac. Fortune was smiling upon us. We made it to station in time but there had been no time for postage stamps or breakfast. Our train was more up market than that ... read more

London Tooting Bec 8 July - 9 July 2014 8 July Tuesday Edinburgh, New Forest, Tooting Bec Another rainy day as we booked out of Hotel Duvin. Very wet in the outside bar. I hadn't noticed the chandelier in reception until today. It was an elaborate design of upside down crystal wine glasses in layers. Quite effective. We found somewhere to fuel up the hire car on the way back to the airport, even though fuel stations were few and far between. The rain persisted so umbrellas were required for the long walk from car hire drop off to check in. The security queue was long making it a reasonably close call to get to our boarding gate. Important to get there on time given the low cost airline. We had a calm flight back to ... read more

Europe London 27 June - 30 June 2014 Travel Blog 27 June - 30 June 2014 New Forest For those of you have been patiently waiting, here we go. Let's hope I can be more current in future, but I sure have some catching up to do. Enjoy. 26 June 2014 Getting ready for travelling took much longer than expected. After many sidetracks, my packing eventually started very late in the evening and didn't finish until 2am. I tried to get an hours sleep but Dave didn't even bother since we had to be up at 3am to prepare for taxi. 27 June 2014 Friday Checking in for Emirates was a breeze. Before we knew it we were on our way to Dubais. Seats had plenty of leg room but pity that didn't apply to elbow ... read more

4 Oct Tues Carcassonne, Villesequelande Steve was heading back to London today, so we started with all having breakfast in La Place Carnot alongside the markets. We mostly had delicious omelettes, and Kath had pastries which she purchased from the markets. We bade farewell to Steve at 11am. He was catching a bus or train to the airport, then flying back to London. It was wonderful having him join us for a few days and especially the birthday celebration. The boys and girls then went their separate ways for a morning of shopping, the boys for provisions for the evening and the obligatory bar stop, and the girls for clothes and souvenir shopping. It was a very successful spree for Pam with several new blouses and t-shirts and a pair of long shorts, all ... read more