After leaving London and family behind we flew to Hong Kong where we had a one-night stopover. Neither of us had been to Hong Kong for decades. Last time we were there it was still a British colony, and flights threaded their way through apartment towers to land at Kai Tak airport. Although we were only there for a short […]
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Our Final Week in London
London January 2026 We had one final week in London before our UK trip came to an end. Jan used the time to be Nanna, while Chris became a London tourist for a week. Jan got some quality time with Patrick, Chris saw the sights of London and took a day trip to the coast, and together they took in […]
Cold and Windy Shetland
One place that we felt we had missed during our long adventure in 2022/23 was Shetland, the northernmost part of the British Isles. We spent some time in The Orkneys, just of the north coast of Scotland, but didn’t venture further to Shetland. This was our chance to fill that gap. Of course, we were in The Orkneys in summer, […]
Meandering Around Mediaeval York
After our snowy visit to Schliersee in Bavaria, we took the train north to York. But not before an important celebration in London before we left. Click on the photo to read about our visit to York, where we experienced its long heritage through Roman, Viking, and Christian eras. York, England January 2026 If you want to follow our travels […]
On the road again….
We hadn’t planned to travel again until mid-2026, but we received some happy news from London; Natalie and Dom were expecting a baby before Christmas, so this prompted some quick planning to visit. We will do some other things while we are here, and the interactive map below shows where we plan to be during December and January. The blue […]
Coda – A few last things to see in Delhi
We had an afternoon and most of the next day to fill in Delhi. We booked a single night in South Delhi, about halfway between the airport and Connaught Place, the commercial centre of New Delhi. Using the new, and very impressive, metro system, we did some final exploring. There were a couple of popular attractions within a couple of […]
Close Encounters of the Tiger Kind
After the closure of airports in the north-west of the country we had to make last minute changes to our plans, adding days in Goa and cancelling our visit to Chandigarth and Amristsar. But we were very relived when we were able to juggle dates and flights so we could still get to Nagpur for our much-anticipated visit to Tadoba-Andhari […]
A Birthday Weekend in Cooktown
So, what’s this? You thought that because we got back home after the Grand European Adventure we wouldn’t have any travelling to post about? Well, they may not be coming out as often as they were last year, but we have been out and about a bit since we got back. One of our weekends away was to Cooktown in […]
Trying to Stay Dry in County Donegal
The journey from Derry to the northern end of County Donegal coincided with the weather turning seriously wet and miserable. Enough to confine us to quarters for a day and get us soaked another. We still got out and about, and added another chapter amazing to our knowledge of the British occupation of this island, and events in The Troubles […]
A couple of days in Galway and the Connemara Hills
Our journey through Ireland continues as we travel along the Atlantic Coast from Cork to Galway. On the way there we saw one of Ireland’s greatest attractions, the stunning Cliffs of Moher, did some walking in the Connemara Hills, wandered the streets of Galway during the annual International Arts Festival, and saw some of the Galway coast. Click on the […]
The Viking City of Waterford
After picking up a car in Dublin, our circumnavigation of Ireland began with us travelling south to the lovely little city of Waterford. About four hours from Dublin, it is the oldest city in Ireland, originally settled by the Vikings. Waterford’s main claim to fame today is its famous Waterford Crystal, and we discovered that there was a bit to […]
Dublin, One of the World’s Great Cities
The next stop on our tour of Ireland is the capital of The Republic of Ireland, Dublin. Although we were only there for a couple of nights, because it is such a compact and walkable city, we saw a lot. While there isn’t the visible political edge that we saw in Belfast, Dublin was also very important in the Irish […]
The Confronting Political Face of Belfast
By the time we’ve posted the story of this part of our adventure we are already back home in Cairns, with the whole island of Ireland to tell you about. We spent three weeks there, in both Northern Ireland and The Republic in the south. The first instalment is from Belfast, the scene of so much political upheaval in the […]
Lake of Menteith, a Karma Resort
We spent the final week of our time in Scotland back in the south, at one of our Karma resorts. The Lake of Menteith is about an hour’s drive from Glasgow, near the Trossachs National Park. It is close to some of the larger cities in the south of Scotland, like Stirling and Edinburgh, so it was a good base […]
A Few Rainy Days On The Isle of Skye
It took a full day of driving to get from The Orkneys to The Isle of Skye, the biggest island in the Inner Hebrides group off the west coast of Scotland. The mid-morning ferry took us back to the mainland, then we drove back through some of the country we had seen around Inverness before arriving at our cottage in […]
Where on Earth is Mellon Charles?
Heading westwards from Invergordon, the next part of our journey took us back into the towering hills and deep valleys of The Highlands. This time, the scenery was even better because we hugged the magnificent coastline of the northwest of Scotland. To say that the scenery in this part of Scotland is breathtaking would be a serious understatement. The narrow […]
Meeting Old Friends in Glasgow
Our journey takes us further to the north, leaving England and beginning our travels through Scotland. First stop Glasgow. Two of Chris’s old colleagues, Colin and Liz, live there now. He saw them last more than a decade ago when they were living in Sydney. It was good to catch up, and for Jan to meet them. Even better, they […]
Wet Walking in The Lake District
The Lake District National Park is one of England’s iconic walking destinations, and one of our must-see places. Located in the northwest of England, near the Scottish border, its high hills rise above countless lakes. An absolute mecca for walkers. We stayed in a little seaside village on the western edge of the park, in probably the best apartment of […]
Beatlemania in Liverpool
Neither of us had been to Liverpool, and we had earmarked it a somewhere to see while travelling to some walking spots in the north of England. Really all we knew of it was that The Beatles had begun their musical journey there in the late 1950s. What a pleasant surprise we had. We loved this city, and really didn’t […]
A Day out in the Country, to Historic Cambridge
We began the next stage of our journey with a flight from Budapest to London, where we had a couple of days with Natalie and Dom. We fitted in a couple of activities while there, notably a day trip to the university city of Cambridge. The story in this post tells of our day trip there, and also about a […]