Europe Week 1: Slow wanders in Switzerland
12-17 June 2012 I ensured that the new variant human flu was communicated to everyone on the plane by ensuring that I sneezed liberally as I walked around. A job worth doing is worth doing well. Keiko...
View ArticleEurope Week 2: Switzerland and Monaco, Double Time
18-24 June 2012 Two hours after they were supposed to arrive at Zurich airport, we finally meet Keiko’s parents. KLM managed to lose their bags and k-mum had to try to communicate in English to sort...
View ArticleEurope Week 3: Italia
25 June – 1 July 2012 Our hike along the Cinque Terre in Italy almost didn’t start when we arrived at the station with no tickets. The only train that hour was due to arrive within a few minutes, but...
View ArticleEurope Week 4: Croatia Time
2-8 July 2012 After the two week whirlwind tour with the k-folks and our respective sicknesses, we are both feeling pretty run down. The complete plan is “go to Croatia, find a beach, lie on it”. In...
View ArticleEurope Week 5: Croatia Continues
9-15 July 2012 Our week of laziness in Mali Losinj comes to an end and catches us a little by surprise. We leave the island of Losinj and head to the mountains for some hiking, however on arriving we...
View ArticleEurope Week 6: Lastly, Croatia
16-22 July 2012 The first day for any new destination follows the same pattern; move to a new town, find an apartment, buy supplies, have a rest, and if possible, go for a swim. The second day on Dugi...
View ArticleEurope Week 7: Munich
23-29 July 2012 We are in Munich for the entire week, we wandered around and saw lots of art galleries, museums, and markets. We ate at more than the average number of Asian restaurants. We checked out...
View ArticleEurope Week 8: Mountain Madness
30 July – 6 August 2012 We both like Munich. It’s a liveable city with green and parks everywhere, good public transport and enough restaurants with non-sausage-based food to keep us both happy....
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