Category: Europe

Can’t say I ever imagined visiting Budapest and leaving with a cat magnet to remember our three visits to three cats over three days in Budapest. Don’t worry, there’s …

Capital city, colosseum and coastline is how I will remember Croatia this time. The first time in 2013 was simply coastline, having chosen to sail around Croatia on a …

Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia is what our fellow day tripper described as “Europe’s best kept secret”. And he had just finished travelling around every country …

I’m talking about real brown bears. In Switzerland. Why? Because since 1513 bears have been kept in Bern as a sort of battle trophy or symbol and was often …

Highlights video of our four days in Cinque Terre in Italy in June 2017 including: how to get to Cinque Terre where to stay in Cinque Terre things to …

Strasbourg is on the border of France and Germany and just like our hopping from one country to the other on the bridge, Strasbourg has changed countries over the …

Hol-i-day-ee! Three weeks in October 2017. First stop Bruges for two days. When we started planning to Interrail around Europe before moving back to Australia, Bruges was ‘up there’ on …

Arriving into Vienna (translated to Wien in German, one of the most commonly used languages in Austria) on the train from Salzburg, I immediately noticed the difference from the …

Remember the movie The Sound of Music? Well, you’ll find a lot of the scenes from the movie here in Salzburg. And it is as beautiful as the movie …

First of all, where is Bremen? Pronounced ‘bray-men’. It’s in Germany and was explained to us by a local as a smaller version of Hamburg. Also, did you know …

Having been to Barcelona three times already, Madrid had never quite convinced me to book a trip there. Gaudi and the beach in Barcelona had me going back to …

I’ve always had an attraction to the colourful houses tucked in and around the cliff edges in Italy. I’d already been to Amalfi Coast but had even higher expectations …