Paris is one of those cities that everyone knows about and has an image in their minds about what it’s like. Once you get there you realise just how big it is and how much is there, and that pretty much everyone’s vision of Paris is true. It’s a huge city with something for just […]
Blog
Catching Up With Family in Holland
After our adventure in Norway we went to Holland to relax a bit and to catch up with the extended family. We got there in time to celebrate a double birthday party so we got to see the whole extended family. We were also there just in time to see the end of Delfsail which […]
Fjords Galore in Western Norway
So after our trip to the High Arctic we headed back to mainland Norway, to the town of Tromso. From there we caught a Hurtigruten boat to take us down the coast to Bergen. The Hurtigruten ships started out as mail delivery ships a bit over 100 years ago, sailing up and down the Norwegian […]
Up in the High Arctic
It was a bit of a last minute decision that we decided to go to Norway but when we saw a trip advertised for Svalbard for what seemed like a reasonable price so we jumped on it. Svalbard is a group of islands way up north in the high Arctic, it’s about as far north […]
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…
After our busy time in Venice with Nicole and Chris we needed a good rest so we only went 36km west to Padua. Padua is an old university town which has the world’s first botanical gardens (more than 450 years old), a church with the relics of St Anthony (bones and body parts for all the non-Catholics) […]
