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14 July 2025
Arriving in Suceava We landed at Suceava’s little airport at 0115. I love small airports like this an was out at the taxi rank in minutes. With the taxi not accepting card, it was only a short walk to the ATM in the departure hall to get cash. While waiting, a kind gentleman had called […]
9 July 2025
Getting to Paris Today I leave Rennes for Paris, for an overnight there in order to make a morning flight the next day. My hotel was opposite Rennes station which made the 0748 train a breeze to catch. The direct service got me to Paris Montparnasse at 0945. My intention was to explore Paris but […]
17 June 2025
Bratislava Castle We woke at 0400, with our body clocks on Taipei time. I gave up trying to doze at 0500 and lay in bed to plan the day. Kim was able to fall back asleep till around 0700. After a breakfast of muesli, we headed out to Bratislava Castle which sits on a hill […]
16 June 2025
Sigh of relief We were relieved to have made the flight successfully on a redemption ticket rather than staff standby. I reckon there may have been only 3-4 empty seats on board (hard to judge with some empty seats belonging to people going to toilets or walking around). The initial idea was that the route […]
6 July 2024
Our room at the hotel included a buffet breakfast, our first in several days. I feel good for having eaten a lot less and more lightly over the last few days. At the end of breakfast, Kim felt that his tummy wasn’t quite right. Even though we had shared all our meals, I had had […]
5 July 2024
Bus to Wroclaw We were happy to leave the crowds of Prague today, heading to Wroclaw by bus. We felt that we had had a good time seeing the major sights but didn’t take in any of its Jewish history. We checked out at 1015 to walk to Florenc bus station. The idea was to […]
4 July 2024
Vysehrad We slept in again till around 0800 and had a leisurely breakfast of cereal and fruit in the room. Today, the plan started with a visit to Vysehrad, a riverside fort not far away from the city centre. We got there by Prague’s underground, which was free for Kim being a senior citizen. He […]
3 July 2024
Prague Castle I fell asleep so deeply after my 0700 alarm that when I woke again at 0800 I had no recollection of silencing the alarm. Kim had some work to do this morning to sort out some bookings in the UK. We had a simple breakfast of cereal while he did that. Finally, we […]
2 July 2024
Bus to Prague Today we move on to Prague by Flix bus at 0925, which required us to be at the nearby station at 0910. We got there before 0900 and ended up waiting for nearly an hour till the bus arrived and finally departed at 1000. This wasn’t my expectation with Germany, especially when […]
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 […]