Amsterdam – Waterways, Windmills and Amazing Art
One more train trip and we were in the busy bustling city of Amsterdam. When I say busy, I mean busy with lots of bicycles! The centre city is built…
Kiwis Exploring For Fun and Wonder
One more train trip and we were in the busy bustling city of Amsterdam. When I say busy, I mean busy with lots of bicycles! The centre city is built…
Back in March, I went to Texas for a week for a work trip to visit colleagues in Plano, just north of Dallas. I was quite excited about my first…
Rob writing here. The next stop on our trip was the La Brea Tar Pits. The last time I was visited the tar pits was around 15 years ago, and…
The next country on our European tour was Germany – the most important country too since that’s where James and Meike’s wedding was to take place! But before the wedding,…
So once again we were in Paris, but this time with my family. My parents, brother and his wife were over for my cousin’s wedding in Germany a week later.…
Berlin has 5 amazing museums all on one island – Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With the 1 day allocated for museums, we weren’t going to visit all…
After a lovely few days in Venice, we got the train to Bologna for my cousin’s (Rob’s cousin) wedding. After arriving at our hotel, we noticed that we could understand…
The Vatican Museums are housed in the apartments and palaces of previous Pope’s, all now museums and galleries with hundreds of works that have been accumulated by the Roman Catholic…
We heard about the Palazzo Massimo from the Revealed Rome blog and it looked pretty stunning. And then we found out that a bunch of Roman museums are open and…
Our second day in Munich we decided to have a big sleep in (there may have been too many beers at the beer garden the night before) and go to…
On our last day in Paris, we finally went to the Lourve. The queue was too long on Friday afternoon and we had slept in on the Saturday morning, so…
When I last went to Paris with my family, Musee de l’Orangerie was closed for renovations. We were pretty bummed at the time, but found other things to do. So…
While Dad and Mum (aka Barry and Helen) were visiting Cambridge we went and saw the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. The place is a massive complex – it used…
For New Year’s Eve, we had heard rumours of Hogmanay in Edinburgh – a street party and concerts for 1000’s of people. We’d also heard how Edinburgh is freezing that…
On another of our weekends, we decided to check out one of the local museums. We decided to go to the general history one, the Fitzwilliam Museum (link). It’s FREE…
Our second and third days in Glasgow were great days of wanderings. We started by heading over to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Walking there from town took us…
Hope you’ve enjoyed having a wee nosy through all the previous posts that have been added to the site yesterday. There are quite a few photos in amongst those posts.…
That first week in London was wonderful! The week started with us training from Heathrow into Paddington Station. So we got to see Paddington Bear! The bear aside, we got…