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Category Archives: Overseas Travel
A Little NZ Deja Vu
Well, we found that Invercargill was pretty much like we had experienced on a previous trip, It was lunch time on Sunday when we arrived and our quick drive along the main street indicated that there were very few places … Continue reading
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More About the Local NZ Dialect
We are now in the town of Te Anau in Fjordland in the very south of New Zealand. We have just had a nice meal in a restaurant called The Ranch which is located at the top of the main … Continue reading
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Understanding Kiwi
Jill and I are having a relaxed trip to NZ for the next ten days. We flew into Christchurch on Saturday and drove down to Timaru for our first night. We spent our second night at Mount Cook where it … Continue reading
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Montreux and Home
We had a leisurely morning on October 6 looking around Interlaken. There were a number of shops that sold very elaborate cuckoo clocks and we debated whether we would like to get one one to bring home. In the end, … Continue reading
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Interlaken
Yesterday, we had a leisurely morning and a walk around the harbour on Lake Geneva before walking the 300 metres, or so, around to the station to catch our 12:55 Golden Pass Panorama train to Interlaken. We started by following … Continue reading
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Mt Pilatus
We arrived in Lucerne, Switzerland, yesterday afternoon after a long trip from Venice. We had almost two hours in which to change trains in Milan on the way and it was quite difficult in a crowded station which was undergoing … Continue reading
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Venice
We have spent the last two days in Venice and I am sitting on a train to Milan, waiting to pull out from Leonardo de Vinci Station on the grand canal. It has been very humid for the last couple … Continue reading
Leaving Slovenia
We left Slovenia on Tuesday after visiting the Karst caves at Postojne. We reached the main chamber on a little train that travelled about 2 kms into the mountain through a series of halls filled with stalactites, stalagmites and grand … Continue reading
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Lubljiana and Bled
After crossing the border from Croatia into Slovenia, the environment was noticeably different. Slovenia is noticeably more affluent (probably because it is in the EU and didn’t have a six year long war that sucked up a lot of money). … Continue reading
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Plitvicka Jezera National Park
We had a long day of travel from Dubrovnick to northern Croatia. A we travelled north, the scenery changed from the harsh Dalmation coastline with its rugged limestone mountain ranges and stunted trees to one which was more temperate with … Continue reading
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