Month: April 2004

Europe

Rome

29/04/2004

Monday April 26 was a travelling day for us. We found the station in Munich easily enough – it was right under our hotel. It took a few minutes to get our Eurail ticket endorsed and then we waited 30 minutes or so for the train to leave. We were on train No 85 for […]

Europe

Bavaria

26/04/2004

This time we are in Germany. Up early in the morning on Wednesday, April 21, for a quick breakfast and a taxi back to Paddington Station for the train to Heathrow. While the station is directly under Terminal 1, it’s still a long walk of 3-400 metres to the departures hall. After checking in we […]

Europe

London

17/04/2004

We arrived in London on time at 5.15 am on last Friday morning after a good flight from Melbourne. The benefit of a free trip using frequent flyer points is that you get to see more scenery on the long way around. Our first sector from Melbourne to Hong Kong was getting long & tedious […]