It has to happen when in a foreign country, it seems, thus costing us money in a foreign currency that is almost invariably larger than the Aus dollar. Yes, we have succeeded in giving the French government money. The whole story is as such:
Last night we started out from our B&B, Les Champs Bayeux, with [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Enough irony, goldy and bronzy
Posted in Travel on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cheesed off!
Posted in Travel on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello fellow travellers on the Road of Life! (I just wanted to write “fellow travellers” so had to then stipualte exactly where)
After a week or more of silence we have emerged in Besançon, pop 125,000 I believe, nearest big place from our mansion in the country, Les Egrignes. When I say mansion, I mean Mansion! [...]
Quickie
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello everyone! As usual we are running out of internet time and so won’t be able to write a proper blog entry, I’m afraid. Just to say we are well and more importantly, eating well here in Lyon! I reckon I’ve been adventurous with the eating, even for my standards. I had a steak tartare [...]
The wonders of Gimmelwald…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all, it is the silent partner here. Well, less visible on the blog let`s say…
I just wanted to further articulate the wonders of our surroundings here (see below for YS description). Well, they`re really good…no, I mean really, really good. There, so that`s done! Ok, so the beauty of the magnificent landscape around us [...]
Update from Gimmelwald
Posted in Travel on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I would just like to announce that yesterday morning we woke up at 6:15am and dressed up in our wonderful down jackets and sat outside to watch the sunrise over the Alps. May I reiterate: 6:15am! But then we went back to sleep again.
When we woke up a goodly time later, we decided to walk [...]
Photos!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
YS gets into a coconut (distant cousin of hers) in Bangkok
Romantic dinner just a short beach walk away from our bungalow on Koh Samui
M excitedly tries snow tubing on Mt Titlis
The view just down the road in Gimmelwald
YS is getting sick of M`s trigger happiness at Gimmelwald!
Mark`s true nature comes out in the Swiss Transport Museum [...]
One step closer to Paradise
Posted in Travel on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What`s the saying… If you`re not sending me to Heaven, then send me to Gimmelwald instead. This place is truly incredible – we´re 1,300m up and the once looming Alps now are right up to your face. There`s even a bit of snow quite close to where we were walking! We`re perched somewhere in the [...]
Swiss Transport Museum
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello everyone! Switzerland is such an expensive place that we have to resort to using the free internet in the Swiss Transport Museum. Actually, this isn’t even an internet cafe in the museum, it’s an exhibit in the Communications section of the museum! So yes, we are hogging the exhibit somewhat… (like those over-eager adults, [...]
Farewell to Walking-Sideways-Through-Airport-Door
Posted in Travel on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The other night I had a dream where I had just finished work in preparation to head off to the UK, and we were looking forward to our first Monday with no work… and then I woke up and realised that it had already happened!
Anyway, I’m typing this email in a nicely air-conditioned upper storey [...]
Escape!
Posted in Travel on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Phew! We’re getting too used to air conditioned comfort, I reckon. Anyway, here we are in a street somewhere in Koh Samui, we hope it’s Chaweng. We went looking for the famed beach but I think we took a wrong turning. So we instead found a 7-11 and bought a tasty green tea with pomegranate [...]
