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14 July 2023
As we had our breakfast in our room, we both received a public service alert on the phone for high winds and some rain. Yep, it was happening outside already and was expected to last till after 1000. We waited for the weather to clear further before heading out around 1030. Today, we wanted to […]
13 July 2023
Elusive bus tickets We woke to strong morning sun around 0630. The ground appeared wet from rain earlier. I headed around 0715 to a supermarket to get some fruit, milk and yoghurt for breakfast. By the time I had showered, shaved and did some planning, it was around 1000 despite my early start. The information […]
12 July 2023
Above: View from our Uskudar cafe while killing time. It was a repeat of yesterday morning in that Kim went sightseeing without me. This time it was Istanbul’s Roman Basilica Cistern, which I had only been to last year. With no queues soon after its opening time of 0900, he was back in no time. […]
15 October 2022
The basilica I started the day with a visit to St Stephen’s (Istvan) Basilica at 1000 with E whom I met yesterday. We visited the co-cathedral at ground level first. It was quite a weird layout in that it’s not very deep from the entrance to the altar but quite wide. Text continues after this […]
14 October 2022
Taking on board the recommendation from yesterday’s walking tour that Tram 2 is one of the most beautiful tram lines in the world, I headed out around 0900 to enjoy the sights from it. I headed south first to the final station, where the city was quite modern and the roads wide and nearly like […]
13 October 2022
Leaving Baku Despite a full dinner, I was hungry and tired after midnight. I had a cheeseburger and expensive coffee from McDonald’s. Fortunately, time passed quickly and soon the check-in counters opened at 0135 for my 0435 flight to Budapest. Baku airport had turned busy since I arrived, with many flights leaving in the 0300-0400 […]
22 June 2018
The alarm woke us at 0530 and we walked to the station at 0600 leaving some time for coffee and sandwich at the station. Our train to Bucharest originated from Budapest Keleti station and was a few minutes early. We were seated in the last wagon. On my explorations during the journey, I wandered to […]
21 June 2018
We had another late start today; not good considering we have to wake early tomorrow for the 0643 train to Bucharest. In case we weren’t able to find a taxi tomorrow morning, we thought we’d check out the 11 minute walk to the station. Once the station was in sight, we decided to continue by […]
20 June 2018
Today we only have to get to Sibiu not so far away. We had allowed the morning free here in Sighisoara. We had a leisurely start before grabbing breakfast in the town square. As we didn’t find anywhere that did breakfast per se, we settled on a toasted sandwich each; one with ham and cheese […]
19 June 2018
We had booked the rental car till 2000 last night with an after-hour return. So it was OK to return it this morning around 0830 before their 0900 opening. From the Avis office, it was only a couple of minutes walk to the train station for our 0858 departure to Sighisoara. The train to Sighisoara […]