I swear there is a small herd of elephants living in the apartment upstairs. I can’t figure out how they can stomp so much in such a small space. But I digress … We took advantage of our two day bus ticket to return to Montjuic, the hill that overlooks Barcelona’s port. There is plenty […]
Hop On Hop Off (or HoHo) bus tours. Some people love them, others hate them. We find them a good introduction to a new city, and a way to see some landmarks that are further afield than we would otherwise get to. Today’s was our third of this trip, and easily the best. The buses […]
Barcelona is of course synonymous with Gaudi, the architect famous for his fantastic (in the proper sense of the word) designs. He is the main reason most people come here – the Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, and his numerous Casas are all huge drawcards. After reading horror stories of 2 hour queues, we planned ahead […]
It was one of those days that sounds simple when you plan it months in advance. Catch a bus to the airport, catch a plane to Barcelona, catch a train to the city. Job done. We woke before 6am, packed quickly, took our last Darmstadt tram, and transferred to the Airliner bus to Frankfurt Airport. […]
Another early start to the day; this time the event centre was at Kapellplatz, within walking distance. We arrived well before 9am, and met Philly and Stephen for our last day of orienteering. From here, we are off to Barcelona, while they will be hiking in the Bavarian Alps. Today was the headline event of […]
We began our second weekend of orienteering last night. Proceedings kicked off with a prologue, with choose your own start times from 6pm. The courses had been altered at the last minute due to a big soccer match, so we missed out on the campus section, and just used a park and adjacent residential streets. […]
Like many people, we’ve passed through Frankfurt Airport a few times, on the way to somewhere else. We’ve never taken the opportunity to have a look at one of Germany’s largest cities, as it is less on the tourism radar than Munich, Berlin or Hamburg. Seeing we were staying 20 minutes down the railway line, […]
Sadly, it was time to leave Morschach behind – no more clifftop views over the turquoise lake. We were headed back to Zurich, but before then we had an important appointment to keep. Victorinox, makers of Swiss Army knives, has an outlet store in Brunnen, and even better, they allow you to Make Your Own […]
This morning we opened the blinds. The mountains had gone. The rain had arrived. We closed the blinds, looked at the radar, and declared it a rest day. Washing, emails, tidying, lazing around watching the rain, and the mountains come and go as the clouds drifted in and out. Most of the activities here are […]
Ilze and I cannot let Debbie get away with that. We have found our photos of our last day in Scotland where we did a bus tour before getting on a plane in Glasgow, 1 hour to London Heathrow, 6 hours in transit, 13.5 hours flying to Singapore, 18 hour stop over, then 7.5 hours […]
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