Travels around the Continent
"A forest bird never wants a cage." (Henrik Ibsen - The Master Builder) [Without the confidence to plan any European adventures at the moment, I look back to another short trip I made last year.] Tuesday 7th May 2019My flight to Oslo was about an hour later than the one to Bologna earlier in the …
"Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters and sausage" (Lord Byron) [Had things been normal this year, I would have expected by now to have planned and booked a number of Europe Explored trips for the autumn and I would probably have written a blog post providing a preview of my plans. Instead, this month …
[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 …
"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, …
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