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This is a description of a holiday that was planned, mostly booked and never taken! It was planned as a grand pan-European odyssey back in those heady days of 2019 & 2020 when the world had never heard of Covid or lockdowns. Ah! Such innocence.

DRAFT Phew! What a trip, What a holiday! We saw amazing things, we had great experiences, and we aren't ever doing anything like it ever again! (See the second part of this entry linked here for all the reasons) This was the final part of a

This is another retrospective post telling of a trip by bus & train along the south coast of England in early Summer of 2024. We went from home to Deal by train, only changing trains at St Pancras and Walmer - a surprisingly easy journey that

Unusually for us we had decided to have a holiday in the height of summer - we generally avoid July & August because of the higher prices and the number of children about. As it happened, this trip worked out extremely well. It was - in effect -

There is currently a lot of enthusiasm for the revitalisation of the Night Train network across Europe. Night Trains fell into decline as High Speed Rail networks expanded and low cost airlines sucked us in - but as the realisation of the costs of

It was 2023 and life seemed to be back to some sort of normal at last. We were able to think about filling in the gaps of our aborted 6 week long Interrail trip planned for just the moment the pandemic hit in 2020. The gap this holiday was designed

As I mentioned in my post of August 12th last year we are going to the south of France this May. I was intending to delay booking this until the last possible moment - which for me was the 17th March to allow for the various booking windows to be

This is a retrospective report (by 7 years) of a very successful & happy trip we took in April & May 2017. This involved a couple of extremely long travelling days that I would not contemplate doing now. It was also before my wife really

This was our first Big Bus Trip - and we decided to go to the English East Coast back in September 2021. September of that year was a couple of months after all the legal Covid restrictions had been lifted in England (19th July 2021) so it was a

One of our trips that comes up a lot in both conversation and on Mastodon is the six week trip we made for our 25th Wedding Anniversary in September 2002. I'll give you a description of it here. The whole idea was born out of a journey I made