Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Around noon we reached Ha Long Bay, our entry point into Vietnam. The bay features some 2000 of limestone karst islets and islands in all shapes and sizes, which makes for stunning scenery. In 1994 the…
Sunday, November 16, 2014 After a day at sea and on route from Hong Kong to Vietnam, we docked for 2 days at Sanya, Hainan Island, China. Not much to this place really. It’s being marketed as the ‘Hawaii of China’, because…
Monday, November 10, 2014 After a long, tiring flight (these long hauls usually are) on Qatar Airlines from Brussels, via Doha – somehow we’d expected more of that airline… will have to try Emirates next – we arrived in Hong…
Wednesday to Friday, November 5 – 7, 2014 Caroline took the 12:58pm Eurostar from London St Pancras to Brussel Zuid (naturally there was a 25 minute delay entering the tunnel), and from there continued onto Gent to stay 2 days…
Sunday to Thursday, November 2 – 6, 2014 Stephen flew back to San Francisco to organize a few things. Uneventful trip, which is the best kind. Caroline stayed back in Europe.
Friday, October 31, 2014 We have flown into London many times, but this was the first time we flew into London City Airport – which was rather spectacular with The Shard and Canary Wharf passing just beneath us – and…
Thursday, October 30, 2014 We left Eeklo mid-morning towards Rottterdam to drop off our faithful ‘travel companion/vehicle’. We took it easy, stopping for lunch and coffee close to Veere. Sterlin’s drop-off address turned out to be in the middle of…
Friday, October 24, 2014 We drove from Luxemburg City to Eeklo by way of Bastogne, where we visited the Bastogne War Museum; another very well done museum, very worthy of a visit; and the American Memorial / Mardasson Memorial. We spent…
Thursday, October 23, 2014 We arrived in the late afternoon into Luxembourg. Our little hotel was smack bang in the middle of the local Red Light district, which made parking Sterlin a little challenging, but we found a safe enough…
August – October, 2014 Back in Europe we made our way to Belgium via Russia, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. On August 16 we arrived in Eeklo, the end-goal of the ‘overland’ part of our trip.…
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 We left Switzerland and headed in the direction of Liechtenstein. We were barreling along the freeway when our trusty Garmin decided we should take an exit and cross into Austria. We didn’t intend to go to…
Saturday, October 18, 2014 It was a short 70km drive from Zurich to Arvenbuel. The weather was absolutely perfect and provided a wonderful introduction to this part of Europe. The scenery was a little bit like New Zealand, only more…
Thursday, October 16, 2014 We set off ‘reasonably’ early towards Zurich, to have time to spend lunch and the afternoon in Bern. And so we did. While driving to Bern we experienced some heavy rains, but, by the time we…
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 (Wedding Anniversary) Getting a reasonably priced hotel in Geneva proved to be quite difficult. So we instead booked a hotel in Annemasse, France, which was a 20 minute walk from the Swiss border. A great plan…
Monday, October 13, 2014 We said goodbye to Luc and headed off in search of the Millau Viaduct, which happens to be the tallest bridge in the World. We stayed on the smaller backroads which was a good choice. After…
