Travels around the Continent
"And a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. “I declare it’s marked out just like a large chess-board!” …
[Still unable to travel, I look back to another short trip I made a couple of years ago.] "How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?" (Charles de Gaulle) In 2018, I had already made flying visits to explore three different cities, while staying away for just one night. For my …
[In the absence of any travel being possible for the foreseeable future, I continue with another look back to a flying visit from a couple of years ago.] In Dublin's fair city, Where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone. This month's blog post recalls a two day …
"Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen" (Danny Kaye song) After my successful trip to Hamburg in April 2018, a month later I went to Copenhagen. Not only a new city for me, but also a new country, as I had never been to Denmark before. Wednesday 23 May 2018The flight to Copenhagen departed from Stansted over an hour …
"I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg." (John Lennon) I had for a number of years been exploring the cities of Britain travelling by train for day trips (or in the case of Scottish cities having one overnight stay). My personal circumstances precluded being away for longer. In 2018, …
Europe Explored 