Amsterdam & little windows

Still on the move and spent a couple of days in wonderful Amsterdam. Continuing on from our last post, we visited  Van Gogh museum, Risjmuseum, had a ride on a canal boat as well as perfected the use of Amsterdam Trams. Weather at night was very cool. Deb visited Ann Franks house & we walked all over town & took lots of photos as you will see when we return.  Window shopping takes on a whole new meaning here! wasnt game to take photos though

We left Amsterdam and took the night train to Zurich. Quite an experience..didnt sleep very well but they looked after us. Deb had trouble when the train took steep curves! ended up curled up in one end of her bunk. Had a walk around Zurich`s old town, Beautiful buildings & squeaky clean.

We are now in Bern, Capitol of Switzerland & will let you in on all it`s secrets next post.

Cheers & catch you soon.

Oh.. thanks Shannon, we got both your messages .

Lille & Lost in Belgium

Thanks for all the comments!

Great to hear from you all.

OK, an update on the journey so far, told you all the Paris stuff & next is Lille, a very busy spot. Arrived sunday mid-morning & overheard someone mentioning the local markets were on! so thought we may take a look! big mistake!! My god you should have seen the people, as thick as flies on a Hamey Dog bone!. We managed to shuffle through for a while, but all too much, Deb remembered she dont like crowds & almost had my backpack picked in the crush!   Rest of the day we spent wandering through the old town, tried a French dessert you would not believe!   Next day (Monday) hired a car and went to Belgium to visit Deb’s G.G. Uncles war grave. Very sad moving place. It was so bitterly cold. Also spent a couple of hours driving around Belgium, visited Ypres, Tyne Cot cemetary & Passendale, some town we went through 3 times trying to find France again! Finally got back to Lille & you guessed it! Lost again!   WE are in Amsterdam at the moment, having a great time. Trains are wonderful.  Amsterdam is reasonably free of scooters comming at you from the wrong dirrection, but they have been replaced by thousands of bicycles!!  and freezing!!

Would love to hear from you boys!!  will add some more from Switzerland! cheers & here are a couple of pics!

Paris

Our last full day in Paris & I have a keyboard with confusing letters to contend with!

They all seem to be in the wrong location. Just had to walk a zillon miles to find a computer. Anyway, we have covered most of what we had planned, went to the very top of the eiffel Tower, went to Versilles, tried to visit the Catecombes but they were closed, stumbled upon a demonstration complete with riot police! (was a treat), visited the Pantheon, walked & walked! Phew!!  Went to Moulon Rouge! Great show!

Tomorrow we leave for Lille in Northern France & will attempt to add a more coherent entry from there.

Dont forget to add your comments, we look foward to them & click on any pictures we post to get the full size. Hope there is not too many sore heads from Mandys party;

cheers from Debbie & Mike

No Turning Back

Thats it!.

Picked up all our tickets today and almost needed a small mini-van to transport all the documents home. There are 15 different rail bookings involved as well as insurance, Air travel and tour documentation. This does not take into account accommodation and day tours which have been organised online. Oh well, I have had nothing else to do for the past few months.

Last shift at work tonight as well as last shave for approx 10 weeks!

Hi All!

  Well, we are about to do it all again!.

A seven week tour of our favourite European Destinations as well as exploring some new ones. If all goes to plan we will leave Australia on April 8th at about 8pm, a quick 1 hour stopover in Singapore, then onto Paris via Dubai. 

We will add to this blog when possible and with any luck post the occasional photo. We hope you all tag along and prepare for the “Return Home” Slideshow which could involve an entire weekend of beer & cheese!.

So, stay tuned and come along for the ride.