Hi Everybody,
Welcome to first entry of our travel blog.
We have set up this webpage to record our experiences and impressions, links and photos of the places we see and the people we meet as we set off on our European adventures 7th Our departure day is 7th May. It has taken months of planning to arrange this trip on a a very careful budget. The only four and five star hotels we expect to see are the ones we drive past. All we need is a comfortable bed and shower.
For the major part of our trip we are going to London to stay with Carolyn and John and to catch up with friends we lived with 35 years ago. The last time we were in Europe we did not have the resources to see much more than the pavement beneath our feet so this time we are going to spread our wings a bit wider.
For the major part of our trip we are going to London to stay with Carolyn and John and to catch up with friends we lived with 35 years ago. The last time we were in Europe we did not have the resources to see much more than the pavement beneath our feet so this time we are going to spread our wings a bit wider.
At the outset we decided that a cruise was both a practical and relaxing way of visiting several Mediterranean countries. We searched the hundreds of options and prices on the Internet until we found a Norwegian Cruise Ship which went to many of the places we wanted to see.
The insert shows the ship and the itinerary. At one time cruising was considered the sport of the rich but it allows the traveller to cover huge distances with little travel stress and it also works out to be quite economical. In Turkey, we will visit Anday, an AFS student from Istanbul, who we enjoyed getting to know during her stay in Hawera. We will also visit the ancient biblical cities of Ephesus, Athens and Corinth which, otherwise, we might never get to see. In the Western Mediterranean we visit Naples, Rome and Florence, the South of France and finish the cruise in Barcelona, Spain. After two days in Barcelona we fly to Paris for four days and then back via Eurorail to London. Altogether, we will be travelling for three weeks and will visit eleven major cities.
We hope that you will enjoy following our movements and that you will also share your comments and experiences with us in the box below. If you would like to get an automatic notification of each new blog entry simply type your email address in "email subscribe" at the bottom of this page. In the next blog I will tell you how we organised the rest of our itinerary using some amazing Internet tools.
