Zooming along the Rhine into Germany. It is amazing how wide this river is and how much traffic is moving up and down the river. We have seen towns on the bank on either side but no information about which town. It is now 7am and the boat has been sailing since 9am yesterday. An excursion to Maastricht in Netherlands was our choice today. A medieval town with the traditional buildings and narrow streets and an old city wall. Today being Sunday no shops are op...

We have found the Amsterdam buildings very unique and interesting. Lots of them have signs saying they were built in 1600's. That's very old. Many of the buildings tend to lean backwards or forwards or sideways. Must be on shaky foundations. No skyscrapers just old buildings mostly three storeys high. The doorways are very narrow and stairs steep. Any furniture has to be lifted up on a pulley and through a window. All buildings have a hoisting hook right at the t...

Uneven Brick paths, narrow stairways, fast efficient trams with an easy to use ticket system, crooked buildings and late starts to the working day. We have moved to our apartment "La Vie En Rose" just down from the Crowne Plaza where we stayed the first night. The stairs are extremely steep and extremely narrow what fun getting heavy cases up. Luckily we are only on the first floor, the stairs up to the other floors are steeper and curve around. We have found it ...

Canals, boats, bikes, pints of Heineken, crowds of people, pigeons, pastry shops, sex shops, coffee shops advertising permission to smoke cannabis, smokers in restaurants. After 31 hours travelling we finally arrived at our hotel. Just like an Amazing Race event after arriving and thinking I had planned out how to easily get to our hotel by train. Trains weren't running today so we had to get a bus and were dropped at a station we hadn't planned for. No names on...

Arrived at Dubai 11 am Melbourne time. We have already been through security checks 5 times. Airport is so big it took 15 mins on bus to get to the transit lounge area. Plenty to see and do here. We were happy with our seats right down the back but only the two, near the loo but not close enough to be annoying. We had a bit of sleep on way. Also a stopover at Singapore that we didn't know about. We still have a couple more hours here before our flight to Amsterd...