Danube
Friday, 10 February 2017 to Thursday, 16 February 2017
Adri went downstairs and up the road to get us a burek for breakfast, the long thin type. I prefer the long thin pastry variety to the flat round one; the latter can be rather oily, too oily for my liking and health, but of course it is delicious. Adri brought home a beef as well as a feta-like cheese burek, both were amazing. Continue reading
Saint Mark’s Church, view from Tasmajdan Park
Friday, 3 February 2017 to Thursday, 9 February 2017
Today was the first day we dared leave the windows open for a prolonged period of time; it was +11°C outside and forecasted to go up to +16°C, it was beautiful outside. Wow! Belgrade is truly a wonderful city in winter; I can just imagine how beautiful it must be in summer when the multitude trees carry their green mantle with pride and dignity. Maybe, just maybe, we will come back to witness that sometime. Continue reading
Belgrade Fortress
Belgrade – Student Park
Skadarlija (Skadarska) street
Friday, 13 January 2017 to Thursday, 19 January 2017
It was Friday morning and we had another mountain trip planned with Patrick and Oi and this would also not disappoint, just like our magical mystery tour of two weeks ago. It was after 09:00 that we met up with the pair and departed along the ring road towards Manaem. At Soi 1 we turned left, rode up and past the Sereena Restaurant that we visited a while back and enjoyed the mountain road ride towards Lamai. It really is a lovely ride with wonderful tropic scenery. Continue reading
Salamanca—2
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Woke up early, did breakfast at the hotel and took a brisk walk to the Guggenheim Museum. Some 20 minutes later we were face to face with this icon. The architecture of the building, it’s history, the permanent exhibition, the latest exhibition by David Hockney, it is all just too much to take in at once. (Picture: Bilbao 1, 2, etc. The exhibition by David Hockney is in one word, incredible, an absolute must-see. Continue reading
Deba—3
Monday, May 28, 2012
Woke up too late for breakfast at the hotel, so decided to have something to eat in town. Remembered seeing a Vodafone shop the previous evening so went there to get a sim for the ipad. Thirty Euro later I had a sim installed, valid for three months, loaded with 1GB of data, not bad. Continue reading
San-sabastian-old-town–3
Sunday, May 27, 2012
We had a pleasant breakfast after which we packed up and left Cadaques, ostensibly straight for San Sabastian, on the north coast of Spain, a long drive. But, at the last minute we decided to go north along the coast to El Port de la Selva. This is a decision I will never regret. The hotel manager where we stayed mentioned that it was sort of similar to Cadaques, but that was really an understatement. Driving into El Port de la Selva one really just feels at home with the Continue reading
Cadaques-early-evening
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Had a very pleasant flight on air France. Air hosts and hostesses were very friendly, a refreshing change from some airlines who believe their personnel’s “stiff upper lip” attitude can be fobbed off as professionalism. Well done Air France.
Transited via Paris and arrived in Barcelona at around 7:30. Picked up our luggage and proceeded to Avis to pick up the rental car that was booked. With five customers in front of us Continue reading