Places
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A brief stop in Reykjavik
So on Easter Sunday we drove to the northernmost capital city in the world, Reykjavik. I had read in various places that it’s the place to be: happening, vibrant, dynamic, the usual stuff, but Iceland has so much…
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Those elusive Northern Lights
But first, Keflavik We arrived on Easter Saturday – now why isn’t it called Easter Eve, I wonder? – and spent the night at a guesthouse in Keflavik. Our plan was to spend Easter Sunday in Reykjavik,…
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Like a different planet
It’s an outrageously expensive country, the weather is horrible, but it’s fantastically beautiful. At the Djúpalónssandur beach I remarked to my wife Sue that it felt like a different planet. Thoroughly exotic. Iceland is famous for volcanoes, the…
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Vlad and Nicolae
I was a bit worried that there wouldn’t be much to see or do in Bucharest except lots of traffic and heat. How wrong I was. Sure enough, we had a disappointing start. After an endlessly cold…
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Springtime in Overijse, Belgium
Belgium is rewarding us with a beautiful spring in 2017, including this Saturday. I had one and a half hours to wait until the start of a Juventus football match, so I decided to go out and…
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I made peace with the universe in Mechelen
My day trip to Mechelen didn’t start on a perfect footing. The plan was that I would get a guidebook from the tourist office at the Grote Markt, plan my tour of the city while having a…
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Ljubljana walking tour
The meeting point was on a cold February morning at 11 ‘in front of the pink church’ in Prešeren Square, where a group of about 20 people was gathered to join a tour by our guide Tina.…
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Lake Bled, Slovenia
Most visitors to Slovenia recommend Lake Bled as one of its beauty spots. So it made sense that, being based quite close to it, I should go and have a look. Someone on Tripadvisor said they had…
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Logar valley, Slovenia, and a peek at the Austrian Alps
“An area of outstanding beauty”, according to some travel website on Slovenia. So I decided to drive over to Solčava to have a look. It was a long way away: two hours, a good section of which…
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