Showing posts with label honeymoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honeymoon. Show all posts

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Of wireless and hotels

Call me pedantic, but finding wireless at hotels in Italy is proving to be a bit of a challenge.
(Rant follows...)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mykonos

Our cruise ship left Santorini at around 11:30, and we cruised through the night (with a 1am dinner at the all-night cafe) to arrive at Mykonos early the next morning.
Mykonos Windmills

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Santorini...

What can be said of Santorini? Santorini is the typical image you see of Greece and the Mediterranean. Brilliant white houses, with bright blue roofs, perched on, and in, cliffs overlooking the ocean. Donkey rides up from the port. That's Santorini.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Corfu - Beach Break

Once we got back on board the boat at Split, we continued on our merry way to to Corfu, Greece. This was our next programmed port of call, and we had booked into a "Beach Break" shore excursion...

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Split

The first stop on our cruise was the Croatian town of Split

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Of Trains and Journeys....

I've always wanted to do one of those magical long train journeys, like the Indian Pacific, or the Trans-Siberian. The massive, long trips that go for days on end where you cross miles of countryside, or even countries at a time.
As a slight nod to this, we chose to do an overnight train from Rome to Venice. We're buying a Eurail Pass for our next trip, so I'm sure there will be more of these things.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Don't get me wrong...

I recognise the rights of unions, or even non-union employees, to strike, if they feel they aren't getting a fair deal. That makes perfect sense to me. In particular right now, I'm talking about the BA strikes