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16 November 2021
Today I continue to revisit the various sights that make this city so spectacular. I started with a metro ride to the Notre Dame and a walk in the surrounding area where I once stayed with a friend. The cathedral has been inaccessible and boarded up for over two years while undergoing fire reinstatement. Next […]
15 November 2021
Train to Paris Lou and Riccardo took me to Joigny this morning, driving me around its old town before dropping me off at the railway station. It had been a somewhat sudden meet-up but very enjoyable. I took the 1109 train to Paris Bercy station where I’d have a two night (one full day) stay. […]
14 November 2021
Above: Unfortunately, I hadn’t seen any of the local wildlife such as foxes or wild boars. It was relaxing day again, giving Lou a massage and checking the travel requirements for my next country Istanbul. Fortunately, Turkey’s relatively easy entry conditions hadn’t changed and I did my arrival declaration to obtained “HES” health code. I […]
13 November 2021
Above: Lovely home of my hosts. As we’re now further west in the time zone compared to Italy, the sun rises later around 0800. It sets around the same time as where I had come from in Italy around 1700 with shorter daylight hours due to the more northerly location. After the constant walking and […]
11 November 2021
Today I join Lou and Riccardo for their drive back to their home about 2h south of Paris. After an earlier breakfast than yesterday, at 0800, we departed at 0845. After a little detour, we got on the motorway where the GPS indicated that we would be on the motorway to Geneva for about 220km. […]
29 October 2021
City Wall on the Greek side Having retired around 1930 last night and with it being daytime in New Zealand, my body clock woke me up around 0300. I couldn’t sleep anymore and sat up reading, writing and chatting. After breakfast, I took a walk around the old city’s wall, starting around 0820 at the […]
19 August 2017
While I’m not much of a museum person, I really wanted to go the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island (which is home to several). I had tried pre-booking but there were only afternoon slots left and that didn’t suit me. So we turned up early to avoid the queues. Getting there at 0940, there was […]
18 August 2017
I woke at 0730 and wandered to the nearest supermarket which was inside the station. I got some soya milk (in case my tummy didn’t like dairy in its current state) to go on my muesli. We had a 1000 free walking tour booked from Brandenburg gate. Armed with an all-day Zone AB ticket (EUR7) […]
27 July 2014
I had a day to chill today, catch up with some admin and make some forward travel arrangements. I had seen all that I wanted to see today, in a somewhat shallow way. I needed a rest. Kim on the other hand went to Autoworld and the Air Museum and he enjoyed both very much. […]
26 July 2014
Breakfast today comprised of pastries and coffee on a litter-strewn pedestrian mall not far from the hotel. The surrounding area had been cleaned up since last night but the area where we had seated ourselves was still waiting to be done. We took the metro then train to Antwerp. We had bought ourselves a return […]