Cheryl Kirby

UK and Europe 2011

Cheryl Kirby




Europe » France » Île-de-France » Paris April 26th 2011

Jacinda & Michael's Wedding Anniversary! We wake up fairly early and are eager to start exploring Paris. We have a light breakfast and do some washing before heading out. The weather is quite mild, warmer than we expected. We soon realise how close we are to the Eiffel Tower- we can see it from the bedroom and as we walk to the end of the block and turn right, and there it is in all it's glory just a couple of blocks away towering over the the River Seine. We take some photos and marvel at how magnificent the structure is and many hours of design and building that must have gone into making this spectacular piece of architecture. We walk along the river Siene and are in awe of the maginificent buildings we see with ... read more
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Europe » France » Île-de-France » Boulogne-Billancourt April 25th 2011

ANZAC Day! We arrive in Paris at 6.40 am and take the airport shuttle to Gare de Nord railway station. The railway station is large and there are soldiers armed with machine guns roaming the station. Here we find the luggage storage area where we leave our bags in a locker before catching a train to Amiens. One thing we notice is that there a lot of people with dogs boarding trains and are impressed that the french are pet firendly. At Amiens we find out from the information booth outside the station how to get to Villers Bretonneux. We have lunch while we are waiting for the train then head to Villiers. In the First World War, on 24 April 1918, the small town of Villers-Bretonneux was the site of the world's first battle between ... read more


We arrive at KL International Airport at 5.50 am and take the hotel shuttle bus to the Concorde Hotel. After checking in we have breakfast then change into cooler clothes before taking the dhuttle bus back to the airport to catch the train to KL central. We go by taxi from the train station to the local market where we do a little browsing then walk through downtown KL to the Petronis Towers. We aren't ablt to go up to the viewing tower as it is closed so we have lunch and pick up a few souvenirs After lunch we head back to the hotel for a nanna then have a buffet tea before heading back to the airport for the second leg of our journey. We depart on Malaysian Airlines flight MH20 which leaves at ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Grafton April 23rd 2011

Today Jacinda, Michael, Richard & I set off for a 32 ay trip to the UK & Europe. We are excited and looking forward to reuniting with family and friends and also to see some of the more famous attractions in France, the UK, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, the Czech Republic and Italy. Today is also Jacinda's 27th birthday! We leave Grafton at 1.00 pm hrs to travel to Brisbane for the first leg of our trip. This leg will takeus to Kuala Lumpur where we have an 18 hour sto over before the second leg to Paris. We stop at Maclean for fish & hips on the river bank and again at Nerang before arriving in Brisbane at about 6.30 pm. Our Air Malaysian flight MH 134 departs at ... read more




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