Seville (Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 October): Days 26 and 27
As soon as we landed, we noticed three things about Seville and maybe most of Andalusia: flat, hot and dry. Once we were into the town, we came face to face the reality that...
Monthly Archive: October 2013
Girona (Tuesday 15 October): Day 25
We have been absolutely blessed by the weather during this trip, and today was no exception. Sunny Spain has been at her best, and while the forecast for the Camino is not so good,...
Barcelona (Sunday 13 and Monday 14 October): Days 23 and 24
Sunday marked a change in our travels: we moved from Northern to Southern Europe, we stopped living in hotels, and Liam flew from Australia to join us. Spain was an unknown quantity, because we...
Flanders (Friday 11 and Saturday 12 October): Days 21 and 22
It is always interesting to characterise journeys. I don’t know whether it is just my desire for an orderly world, but every time Paula and I plan a trip, it seems to develop around...
Munich (Wednesday 9 October): Day Nineteen
Munich was only mean to be a whistle stop, an afterthought because we couldn’t get a connecting flight from Nuremberg, which had been my first choice for a Bavarian stop after Salzburg. I was...
Salzburg (7 and 8 October): Day Seventeen and Eighteen
Monday marked the start of our travels alone, until we arrive in Spain and Liam joins us. I’d asked the desk to organise a taxi for the morning so we could go across town...
Day Sixteen (Sunday 6 October): Budapest and Farewell
Paula and I took on the role of dinner-arrangers, squeezed between our dash to see as much as we could in a short time. Sorry, God, we missed mass again, but if walking is...
Day Fifteen (Saturday 5 October): Bratislava and Budapest
It was very hard to leave Vienna, knowing that we had so much more we wanted to see and counting down the hours until we said farewell to the group, with all of us...
Days Thirteen and Fourteen (Thursday 3, Friday 4 October): Vienna
Well, contrary to expectations, the trip turned out to be a lot of fun, with our new friends in good form — at some stage I am going to have to write about the...
Days Eleven and Twelve (Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2 October): Cesky Krumlov
Another day of travelling brought us to Cesky Krumlov, which has the obligatory UNESCO rating handed out to towns suffering from communist neglect and large castles. Sorry to sound cynical, but while the town...