We spent 4 nights in the lovely Loire Valley region.... and on most of these nights we soaked up our last chance to devour with delight the French ch…

How exciting....back in France and straight into wine country!!! After checking out the town (with the longest pedestrianised street in Europe), we b…

Entry by Steph Tribe   Well, after another month of backpacking has passed since we last hit the beach scene....we finally arrived at San Seba…

We decided not to stay in Madrid as our research indicated that it may not interest us as much as other places. But we did still have one night,…

The home of Valencia oranges and the birthplace of Paella!!!! I didnt get much of a chance to get into the oranges, although the hotel did give us f…

Barcelona is GREAT!!! Day 1 - We took a walk down Las Ramblas, the main street of Barcelona! This street is pumping with pedestrians, shops, street …

We stayed 2 nights in Avignon, just outside the town wall. There wasnt heaps to do in this south of France town, but after Paris, we both really need…

We stayed one night in Nice after the hottest train ride that I have ever had in my life!! After 8 hours of sweaty hell from Paris, it was great to a…

I had the BEST time in Paris!!!   Day 1 - Found our way into The Louvre. It was great seeing both the inverted and upright pyramids!!! O…

Stayed here for one night on the way to Paris. Respectfully, we visited another of the awesome German beer gardens to eat their yummy food and bevera…

Oh no!!! Steph got my bug!!! So after only a few hours of sightseeing together, I had to do most of Lucerne on my own. We saw The Lion Monument dedic…

Why I EVER left Lauterbrunnen, I'll never know!!!! The place is my kind of beautiful!!!! We stayed in a campsite in the valley of 72 waterfalls…

Nothing really "grabbed" me about Nice. We did some shopping, climbed up the mountain top chateau for an overview of Nice and had a swim. We also d…

The Cinque Terre (literally meaning 5 villages) is a beautiful stretch of coastline made famous by these 5 small fishing villages nestled between the…

PISA!! Fairly self explanatory - just stopped here for a quick hour - long enough to get this shot (ok, and also the cheesy "holding it up" variety …

We stopped in the cute little mountain top town of Orvieto on the way to Florence - it is where the Pope apparently used to hide out in times of trou…

WOW...what a city!! If you can call it a city - it's basically wall to wall ancient ruins and churches - NINE HUNDRED churches to be exact!! And hist…

WHIRL-WIND TOUR OF SOUTHERN ITALY!!! This trip was an optional busabout add-on...but really it was too good to miss! Our first stop was at Pompeii, …

Stopover for Southern Italy.

Words cannot even express how beautiful this place is, so I wont even try and be eloquent......but this place is as spectacular as all the guidebooks…

Ios is known as the party island and in our resort there were two pools that played music allll day and a bar that had cheap 2 for 1 cocktails, so re…

Paros was definitely a change of pace from Mykonos...a lot smaller to start with! We only had one full day here, but we managed to get quite a bit do…

Surviving the departure time of 5:45am, we caught a 5 hour ferry to the island of Mykonos. Initially, I was a little confused…I was meant to be a t…

Was so excited to start our Island hopping adventure - I needed this "holiday from our holiday"!! But I digress, Athens - the city named in honour of…

One night stay at Camping Roma. We had booked a 3 share room - which turned out to have the creepiest roommate we have ever had - a 50 year old Europ…

Coming into Italy, our tour guide warned us that a lot of Italian toilet seats go missing! We found this to be true, and we also found a system i hav…

Our last stop for Austria was at a little town called St. Johann. We stayed at an Australian Pub called Bunny's, but in an adjoining three-storey t…

I dont mind a bit of Munich! It has a good feel, which may have a lot to do with the World Cup Opening the day after we left...imagine the Commonweal…

Aaaah Cesky Krumlov!! Its hard not to fall in love with this little town in the Czech Republic!! Had a great time here, it was so good to spend 4 d…

Eeeek!!! No other country on our bus trip so far has had border control, so it was an experience getting into the Czech Republic!  We were told …

I have always been fascinated with World War II, so to visit the place that was so influential in such recent history was a little surreal. It seems…

Let me start by saying NEVER stay at the Hans Brinker hostel in Amsterdam. It ruined my first impressions of the city...that may sound a little harsh…

This was never going to be a stop-over - but i am SO GLAD that it was. Bruges is beautiful!!!!! I loved the town, the cobbled streets, the sweet lit…

Oh dear! Someone should tell the Parisians that they drive on the wrong side of the road!!! Eeek! Very scary!  Had only one full day here waitin…

Stayed in Luton only really to get fly out the next day.... Rather boring place; it's not in the Lonely Planet and I know why!!!!

Sadly, we left Glasgow and Steph's beautiful family and headed to Edidburgh to meet up with Andy (my friend from Buller), for a while. He had arrange…

We stopped for lunch in Arundel, a cute little town with a castle perched above and a stream running between the cobbled street. We then headed to Po…

So we began our road trip, learning the road rules as we went. There are classes of roads - M for motorway, A roads, B roads, and then country-type l…

From the old buildings, the huge and efficient transport network, the Royal pomp and procession to the BLOODY freezing weather, I LOVED my time and b…