"There must be some kind of way outta hereSaid the joker to the thiefThere's too much confusionI can't get no relief"(All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan) In my blog post at the start of this year I tried to look ahead to the prospect of travel in Europe in 2021. Despite much media optimism …
Planning for the future
"A bad plan is better than no plan at all" (attributed to many authors) Being the start of a new year, I originally thought that my January blog post would be a good opportunity to look forward at what plans I have for exploring Europe. However, when I sit down to write this, I am …
Europe unExplored – another update
"When the facts change, I change my mind." (Attributed, possibly incorrectly, to John Maynard Keynes.) When I started this blog in January of this year I had high hopes of having by now completed a number of trips to provide plenty of material for regular blog posts. When it became clear in March 2020 that …
Europe unExplored – an update
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!(To a mouse - Robert Burns) As the prospect of any European travel recedes ever further into the future, I thought I would take stock on those trips I had originally planned for the first …
Europe unExplored
A Journal of the Plague Year (novel by Daniel Defoe) This has been a difficult post to write. I normally start preparing each Friday morning's blog post two to three weeks in advance. I was due to depart on the first trip of my Europe Explored project this Sunday, 22 March 2020. However, due to …
To begin
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” (Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad) This is the first post in what I …
Welcome
Welcome to Europe Explored. This website was set up at the beginning of 2020 to record my travels around the continent of Europe. I've always enjoyed exploring new places, but realise I've been very bad keeping a chronicle of my visits. This blog intends to change that. I've now reached a stage in life where …
Europe Explored 