We recently spent a long weekend in Amsterdam, arriving at 4:30 on the Friday afternoon and by 8pm we were out cruising the canals, not wanting to miss a moment of the short time available to us on this trip.…
Porto
Pip can be relied upon to sniff out a market at 100 paces so we inevitably found our way to the Mercado do Bolhao, a sort of Farmer’s Market, full of brightly coloured produce. It was interesting and fun just…
Porto at Night
We were very pleased to be able to host Ros from NZ for a few days. At the planning stage she suggested that she would like to get to Porto while in Europe and we were only too pleased to…
Porto Architecture
We had just a long weekend, Friday to Monday, in Porto where we covered a lot of ground, notwithstanding the very patchy weather. Lots of photo opportunities so I will concentrate in this first post on the buildings which were…
Cesky Krumlov town and castle
Where?? When Pip first came to Ireland and was staying in a B & B, she met up with some people from the Czech Republic who said that if she ever went to Prague, she should make sure that she…
A Prague Weekend Jaunt
Because of the way that the University works its staff leave out, Pip was required to take one or two days more before Christmas. After some discussion we decided that a long weekend in Prague would be a good idea…
Corfu Wrap-up
Just a few bits and pieces here, mainly as a record for us and perhaps of less general interest than other posts. We visited the Achilleion Palace, home to Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, wife of Emperor Franz Josef, a fascinating…
Tricky roads
Many of the Corfu roads are very narrow and windy and we covered many of them in this 36-seater bus. On one of the days out, we sat in the front seats and Pip has taken a couple…
Scenic Corfu
Three of our seven days in Corfu were spent touring the countryside by bus. Corfu is quite mountainous and many villages are built on the sides of hills in quite spectacular fashion, making for great views and photographs. We visited…
Corfu Town
Corfu is both the name of the island and the name of the main city which the locals refer to as Corfu Town. The town is a curious mixture of styles which reflect its history of being under Venetian rule…