The travel adventures of Mark & Vanessa Greatorex
Our day started once again with a dip in the fabulous Villa Haussmann pool, followed by croissants, coffee, juice and baguettes at a café – this time at Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement. Today’s breakfast felt especially deserved, as the Metro station at Abbesses, the closest to Montmartre, is actually buried 36 metres below street…
We have had to revise our schedule somewhat for this week, as the Paris Attractions Pass that we bought before we left needs to be used over three consecutive days and we are leaving for Lyon early Saturday morning. We’re coming back to Paris at the end of the trip, so we’ve decided to leave…
My headaches are back, brought on no doubt by a combination of jet lag, lack of sleep and a stuffy room where the air conditioner seems to only just work. We tried opening the window, (which is actually a combination of two windows, one inside the other) but we realised our mistake immediately and closed…
We left Mount Dandenong in thick fog with the temperature hovering around 6 degrees, and after an uneventful trip we were quickly through to the terminal gate – despite the best attempts of the terminally clueless passing through customs. It never ceases to amaze us just how many people are unable to grasp simple concepts…
We are about to embark on our next journey – a week in Paris, followed by an 8-day river cruise with Uniworld Boutique River Cruises through Burgundy and Provence, before we return to Paris for another 4 days. Stay tuned as we’ll be updating the blog as often as we can while we’re there.
We have recently moved web hosts and I have had to remove our previous posts for renovation in the process. I have managed to restore all of the posts from our previous South Island Road Trip in 2009, but at this stage the posts from our European River Cruise in 2014, our UK Road Trip…
I don’t want to give the impression that we weren’t having a good time of things on the cruise – far from it. It’s just that a couple of events over the past few days had taken a slight edge off what would otherwise have been a perfect trip. Yesterday’s lock failure was just one…
I woke early, as I had every day since our departure a week earlier, and as usual I set up my laptop in order to process all of yesterday’s photos and opened the curtains to gaze out into the darkness. The ship had stopped, presumably to wait for the all clear to enter a lock,…
We woke this morning to another cool, overcast day, as we slowly approached our mooring along the banks of the River Main in the city of Würzburg. Ahead of us, the Alte Mainbrücke (Old Main Bridge) spanned the river, dating back to the 15th Century when it was built to replace an older 12th Century…
The official programme for the day listed us as stopping in Miltenberg at around 12:30 PM, with the tour of the town starting after lunch onboard. As it turned out, we actually arrived a little before midday, so Vanessa and I decided that we’d hop off as soon as the ship had tied up, and…