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13 July 2025
Final exploration of Rome I enjoyed my short stay in Rome. Temperatures were good day and night as long as I stayed out of the sun. But I felt that Rome was more expensive than Paris this time. I felt the sting with the strong Euro against the Kiwi dollar. After my short stay, I […]
12 July 2025
Vatican Museum E left around 0330 and I fell back asleep, waking around 0600. I thought I’d beat the crowd by heading out early, around 0700, after some muesli. Since I got into the Vatican Museum free last time, I thought it would be OK for me to go again and pay this time. And […]
11 July 2025
Minor errand A friend E arrived to stay with me, knocking on my door at 0130. His flight had been delayed by an hour but he made good time getting off the plane onto the last bus at 0030 to Termini. We slept in till 0900 and headed out around 1030 to the area around […]
10 July 2025
Departing Paris My flight from Paris Orly airport departs at 0905 and I had overnighted at the B&B Hotel Paris Italie Porte de Choisy because it is on a direct line to the airport, with relatively few stops. But with disruption to that line yesterday, I decided to wake at 0515 to allow time for […]
27 June 2025
Funchal We were even later today, starting at 1045. Today, we will explore Madeira’s main city of Funchal. I decided we would head to the furthest point of interest on the western end of the centre. That was the Christiano Ronaldo Museum. We paid EUR5 per person to enter and I immediately realised it was […]
26 June 2025
Levada dos Balcoes We had an even later start today at 1030. With good weather, we thought it would be best to do our little outdoor experience today at Levada dos Balcoes. Google Maps took us uphill towards the interior using the narrowest back streets instead of going downhill to join larger roads. To […]
25 June 2025
Southern Coast We had a leisurely start with breakfast of toast, using local fresh bread, supplied by our hosts. Today, the intention was to see one side of the island and maybe more, if time allows. We left at 1000, driving towards the west of the southern coast of the island. We made a wrong […]
21 June 2025
Boat excursion again With time to kill before our 2015 flight tonight to Vienna, we had decided to repeat an excursion to Navagio Beach but this time from Porto Vromi so that we took in slightly different spots from the trip we did two days ago from Agios Nikolaos. We had paid up yesterday for […]
20 June 2025
Vasilikos Peninsula We had a late start today, leaving the hotel around 1000 to explore by car, parts of Zakynthos that we hadn’t seen. Since we explored the north yesterday, I thought we would explore the south today, especially the Vasilikos Peninsula. We started driving down the northern side on which there is a road, […]
19 June 2025
Driving to Agios Nikolaos We left the hotel about 0830, driving towards Agios Nikolaos where cruises are available to Navagio (Shipwreck) Beach and hopefully the Blue Caves. The drive was a bit scary for Kim with the narrow roads and the way other drivers overtake and pull on from the side roads. It is unusual […]