Author: awaywiththebirds
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The Pantzers parlay Portugal
June 19: Salamanca to cruise Left Madrid first thing and arrived Salamanca around noon. The old city of Salamanca was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988, because of its important historical and architectural heritage, particularly its cathedral which is stunning. Interestingly part of the cathedral was restored recently, and to ensure the restoration…
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The Pantzers parlay Portugal
June 18: Madrid Today saw the Pantzers get cultural with a visit to the famous Prado Museum The main Spanish national art museum, the Prado houses collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century. The Prado’s walls are lined with masterpieces from the Spanish, Italian and Flemish schools including…
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The Pantzers parlay Portugal
June 17: Madrid Today we climbed aboard a tuk tuk for a familiarisation ride around the key points of interest in Madrid. Amazingly this was the first time any of us had visited Madrid. The tuk tuk seats 6 people. Fortunately there were only 3 of us otherwise it would have been very squishy! Our…
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The Pantzers parlay Portugal
June 16: Singapore to Madrid, via Brussels Very comfortable overnight flight from Singapore had us in Brussels by 7 am. What joy to find some homemade Belgian chocolate by a smiling chocolatier in the airport lounge! Warren and I had chocolate for breakfast; Di had cornflakes ( chocolate and diabetes are not a good combination).…
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The Pantzers parlay Portugal
Travel days: Singapore to Madrid It’s amazing what you learn about your brother when you travel with him….his skin gets so dry from the air conditioning on the plane, that he has trouble going through immigration and providing a proper thumbprint. The Singapore authorities had to lend him some moisturiser so that his thumbprint was…
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Sara’s sojourn to the Sapphire coast
Day 4: Bittangabee Bay to Green Cape lighthouse In case you haven’t worked it out, this walk is called “Light to Light” because the walk goes from Boyd tower “lighthouse” to Green Cape lighthouse. The funny thing is that neither of the lighthouses have functioned as proper lighthouses. Boyd’s lighthouse never got Govt approval to…
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Sara’s sojourn to the Sapphire coast
Day 3: Saltwater creek to Bittangabee Bay The second day of our walk started with heavy rain and it was much cooler than yesterday. Our walk didn’t actually start until lunchtime as we were treated to a cloudy and rainy cruise around Twofold Bay. Not too much to see at first apart from the rockpool…
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Sara’s sojourn to the Sapphire Coast
Day 2: Boydtown to Saltwater creek I told you yesterday about Ben Boyd. Well our first visit today was to Boyd’s tower- the lighthouse which he tried to build to serve his shipping needs. But he didn’t get permission to build it so it never really functioned. But it has a nice view!! From there…
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Sara’s sojourn to the Sapphire Coast
Day 1: Settling in at Eden Well the Seahorse Inn at Boydtown just outside of Eden was quite a (lovely) surprise. This is the view from my room. And the place has a lot of interesting history. Initially built by Benjamin Boyd in 1843, who hoped that Boydtown would become the capital of Australia. Boyd…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 9: Agra- Delhi We didn’t get up early for what was described in our itinerary as “a spectacular sunrise tour of the Taj Mahal” because you couldn’t see a thing out of our window. So instead we had a leisurely breakfast and left the hotel at 9am. This is the foyer of the hotel.…