Matt and Lisa's Adventures

6 January 2023 Up early and we caught the metro to the train station. As always with Italian trains, you only get told the platform ten minutes before boarding and then there is a mad scramble to get onboard. Thankfully the train is very modern and comfortable, a big improvement after the French trains. The…

4 January 2023 Our first train was French and was as rubbish as the one we had taken to Nice. It was clearly the local commuter train from Nice to Monaco and it was packed. I got stuck standing on the stairs between levels which wasn’t comfortable, although the locals seemed fine. The woman next…

3 January 2023 Our first job of the day was to find a supermarket so that we could have some breakfast. We had more luck than the previous night and found one just a block away. The cereals were weird and we ended up with a crunchy one with chocolate in it. I enjoyed it,…

2 January 2023 We checked out and decided to treat ourselves to a breakfast out as we’d had a few poor meals recently. After a bit of walking we found a nice cafe and each had a croissant, hot drink and orange juice. Lisa was very confused by the two drink situation! The croissants were…

29 December 2022 Up early this morning and off to the airport for the flight to Barcelona. Dubai airport was busy, even with the early hour of the morning. The flight was good and I watched Django Unchained and Midway – both of which were really good. It took an age for our bags to…

28 December 2022 We arrived very early into Dubai and weren’t able to check in to our hotel. The hotel reception was chaotic and the staff weren’t very friendly and were also unbelievably inefficient – all of this (combined with a lack of sleep) upset Lisa considerably. We had to kill a couple of hours…

Christmas with the Kennedy’s, then off to Melbourne for a day of shopping before we explore the middle east city of Dunai