Category: Europe 2022/2023
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Singapore
19 January 2023 Short day today, only 17 rather than 24 hours as we were in transit from Paris to Singapore. After arriving in Singapore we grabbed a ride share to the hotel. No Uber in Singapore so had to use the local Grab app instead. Hotel is nice and room is a surprisingly decent…
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Paris
13 January 2023 Up early for the flight to Paris. We caught the metro to Termini and then caught the Leonardo express train to the airport. We were on the budget airline and had to catch the bus out to our aircraft. Flight was fine and we decided to Uber to the hotel as it…
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Rome & Pompeii
9 January 2023 Back to having an early start in order to catch the train to Rome. We arrived at Roma Termini and headed to the hotel however we were a bit confused as the sign said it was a luxury hotel, but we don’t book places like that. Turns out we were in the…
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Florence
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…
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Milan
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…
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Nice
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,…
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Marseille
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…
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Barcelona
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…
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Dubai
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…
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Christchurch & Melbourne
Christmas with the Kennedy’s, then off to Melbourne for a day of shopping before we explore the middle east city of Dunai
Matt and Lisa's Adventures 