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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Last port before Southampton. The sun is shining and we have until 4.30 to explore the city. Canary Islands has ,for a long time, been...
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Last port before Southampton. The sun is shining and we have until 4.30 to explore the city. Canary Islands has ,for a long time, been...
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Dakar,Senegal
Happy Easter! After 6 days at sea we are reaching Dakar in Senegal on the West coast of Africa. The staff have created some lovely...
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Walvis Bay Namibia
Walvis Bay is a coastal port used to transport coal and other materials…so think lots of cranes , ships, dust and containers. Just beyond the...
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Mighty Matterhorn
As you guessed, bags are packed and we travelled to Zermatt. We passed Lake Thon and many pretty villages that line...
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With such wonderful scenery around us, I thought nothing could surpass it, until today. We had planned on visiting Trümmelbach falls yesterday...
Read out allIt snowed!
With rain threatening, we headed off to the Schilthorn. Apart from being a magnificent mountain,well known skiing venue, Schilthorn is known for...
Read out allWe’ve been shrunk and put in a model train set
Our trip was carefully planned with respect to trains , accomodation and locations. John agonised over details, connections, emails were sent between...
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Your intrepid travellers left Lucerne today for Meiringen. The husbands demonstrated their superior strength by taking the suitcases and heading to the...
Read out allAbove the clouds
Swiss people look forward to their days off. They head out of the city when it is fine to enjoy the outdoors....
Read out allAnother day of wonder
Breakfast in Flüelen had been a frugal affair of bread and cheese……but fantastic coffee. The owner hovered telling us we should be...
Read out allMagic!
Today we did not wake early, gulp breakfast, hurriedly brush teeth, cram and zip suitcases and rush out the door. Today we...
Read out allHere we go round the loops.
Six trains today……we were running late for the Glacier Express but it is a tourist train so it was running even later…..which...
Read out allSunny,almost,Zurich
No rain today, haze, cloud but no rain. Well readers, I hope you appreciate the torture we are experiencing to further your...
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