We had an overnight stay near Heathrow before being picked up by our private hire car to transport us to Gatwick. The car worked out cheaper than the bus and the driver was lovely company. We were also much happier with the hotel over our earlier stay at Heathrow. Four star with excellent amenities versus two star with dodgy amenities, but there was a price to pay...an extra $10!We did have one problem though. I had left out a breakfast order for one (it was so e...

Today we had a lazy morning watching the news and the historic final landing of a solar powered plane that had circumnavigated the world. We unpacked our old bag into our new bag, went across the road to the shopping mall for brunch before doing a smattering of sight seeing before setting off for the airport for the next leg of our journey. Off to South America.We walked over to see the Palace of Culture and Science. It was built in 1955 as a gift from the Soviet...

Our train was due to depart for Kraków at 7:50 am, so we stopped briefly at Macca's for breakfast. It was actually quite tasty! We didn't realise that we got breakfast on the train, so we ended up choosing croissants for morning tea.On the train I flicked through the supplied Polish magazine and there was one article in the whole magazine in English. I discovered that World Youth Day was in Kraków for the next few days. While it didn't officially st...

Our flight to Warsaw was at 12:20 pm, so that didn't give us much time in the morning to see more of the beautiful city of Budapest. We travelled to the airport for our "Wizz" flight and as we were almost through to the plane, Anthony was asked to check the size of his cabin bag and it failed. We thought "huh"? It's a standard cabin bag and we've been travelling on numerous flights with it. But, oh no, on Wizz you can only take a "small" cabin bag and...

So after an uncomfortable night of noisy Friday night revellers (you'd think I'd learn!), I had some corn flakes Anthony bought from the local corner store and did some hand washing to (hopefully) last the rest of the trip.We left the apartment late in the morning and took off towards the Chain Bridge and the Buda Castle. It was extremely humid and uncomfortable. I'm not one to sweat, but my forehead had beads of sweat from the humidity and I was acut...