At monday 18th of July the nightporter made an early simple breakfast . After that I went to Heuston station for the irishrailtour to the west of Ireland.First by train to Galway. Met in the train Jennifer, a korean american lady with her kind of boyfriend Bob. Jennifer works for a lobby firm and earned the trip to Ireland as bonus, She says her work is helping politicians and companies. Bob says her work is selling favors. Bob is chef and coooks probably for the same people as she is working for.. They still both had the problem of jetlag and Jennifer seeing the cowas laying down in the meadows, yes the cows in Ireland do a lot of laying down, she wished to become a cow so she could sleep all day. I told her ... read more

Took yesterday the 6.40 from Haymarket to Glasgow Central and had a connection to Stranvaer at the same station at 8.07.At Stranvaer the ferry of the Stena line is next to the station. The trip Glasgow Stranvaer takes about 3 hours and you see a lot of green, hills, meadows and a lot of unknown stations like Perswick international airport an hour from Glasgow. A small airport however with huge parking lots .The day started with rain but slowly slowly it became dry. On the way there are also meadows with only completely black cows. When these are the Angus cows the meat tastes better than it looks like when still alive. Other small stations like Maybole and Barhill where people get on and off the train and finally Stranvaer.Was able to take an earlier ferry ... read more

Reached Edinburgh Haymarket station after a trip of about 10 hours on July 14th.Changing train in London was quite easy for King s Cross is only opposite the international terminal.London-Edinburgh is about 4,5 hours ,Funny thing in the train is that opening the outside door goes as follows: open the window of the door, reach out for the handle outside and open the door.During the trip lots of naked sheep in the meadows. Arrived at the Guards hotel at 19.00 hours.A 12 room hotel that s connected to the Scottish Guards club, club for all ex members of the scottish guards male and female. My room was a 4x4x4 m room so volume enough. However no window at all. Went down and asked for a window.One of the ex majors, there are a lot of ex ... read more

Pictures attached. To see the smaller pictures a bit better click on full entry. Back home again and thinking already a bit to pick up my trail in Belgrade and continuing my trip in spring 2011. Actually the real fun of travelling is the journey and not the destination. A good thing was not to hear anything during this 31 days about dutch politics. Finding out back home that Kingmaker Rutte is making kind of King of Mr Wilders, our Nr 1 racist in the Netherlands and leader of the party with probably the most Christian voters at the moment. Mr Wilders will be probably in power , next to the Government he can dictate, around first week of September. I still think back to all people I met, mostly good to talk with even ... read more

Amazing the numbers of arab ladies with Burkas you see in Munich. It are quite a lot and too many to be a tourist office promotion. Ladies with scarfs are even a lot more. Not the sad black scarf our number one racist Mr Wilders is so scared of but many colorfull ones and the girls are laughing a lot what probably means they don t mind and feel happy. I slept in the Intercity hotel, more or less within the station, and the only maps of Munich they have available are in arabic and mention beside the streets the 7 Mosques of Munich. When you see them shopping these arab people are not the peasants from the middle east countries but the rich ones and they buy a lot. The intercity hotels are simple hotels ... read more