Posted in Holidays on September 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
What a journey. 11 hours on a train. The customs and border patrols into Serbia, although apparently unarmed, were still sufficiently scary looking to drive the fear of god into the women clothes traffickers.
Still, the scenery en route was pretty spectacular in places with big cavernous gorges cutting through high mountains. It’s obvious that Serbia [...]
Posted in Holidays on September 21st, 2005 No Comments »
After a 5 hour train trip to Thessaloniki from Athens, punctuated with various games from our travel compendium, we found a bar on the waterfront and had our first beer of the day. As our connecting train to Sofia (Bulgaria) wasn’t for another 5 hours, one beer quickly became several more. In summary, Thessaloniki was [...]
Posted in Holidays on September 19th, 2005 No Comments »
3am start. I didn’t know that time existed. Odd to be sharing the first train of the morning with the partygoers heading home.
Arrived in Athens refreshed for having a Batchelors Cup-a-soup en route. Very hot, 30c. Put the regulation sandals, shorts and shades on - i’m officially a tourist.
Visited the Acropolis very dusty, very hot [...]
Posted in Holidays, Travel on March 14th, 2005 No Comments »
I went to the Disney Resort Paris for the weekend. Although it’s intended for small kids, the group of us that went found it very enjoyable.
Recommended for the grown ups: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster (fast, pitch black ride, strongly recommended), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril (in 2000 Disney reversed the cars to make [...]
