Category: World Trip 2023

A few numbers from our world trip Whilst we’ve been away for 182 days, we actually travelled for 183 days and spent 182 nights abroad. That’s because we enjoyed 31 May twice, as we crossed the International Date Line going

Closing thoughts, Peter As we sit on our last intercity train journey, it seems as if time has whooshed by, as quickly as this Eurostar train is speeding through the French countryside. A Swedish woman working for the Bamboo Yoga

Closing Thoughts, Lynne As we leave Paris on the Eurostar, I’m astounded at how successful our world trip has been. The time has flown by. What adventures we’ve had; no disasters, just some challenges, most of which we relished. Nor

September 7-8 At the beginning of our World Trip, our planned railway journeys had been disrupted by strikes in France. This forced us to fly from London to Turin, to catch our booked train to Bari, in the foot of

31 August – 7 September  As we had a firm commitment in Northern Italy at the end of August, we had arranged for Sue and Lawrie, our dear former neighbours in La Coste to stay with us for four nights

29-31st August With a train departure from Udine station at just after midday, we had a leisurely morning to pack our rucksacks and saunter down to the next door cafe for an Americano and croissant, before leaving our hotel. We

25 August This was a big travel day, with some time-critical connections. Our destination: Udine in Northern Italy, in time for Lynne’s nephew’s wedding in Friuli the following day. As scheduled, the Queen Mary 2 gently berthed in Southampton Harbour

August 18-25 The sight of the Manhattan skyline as you leave New York by ship is truly iconic. Our huge ship, Queen Mary 2, sailed past the Statue of Liberty and under Verrazano bridge in glorious weather, to the magnificent

August 18-25 Queen Mary 2 is unique. It is the only Passenger Liner that has been built in nearly 40 years. This distinguishes her from the numerous Cruise Ships, that regularly launch from the great yards in France, Italy, Finland

15-18 August New York is a city we have both visited many times but never together, at leisure. So we felt quite exhilarated in deciding how we would spend our time.  But beforehand, we retraced our route down the Atlantic