This could be a posting you might want to skip .... unless you have an interest in history and old walls and buildings. It's also an unfortunate feature of this site that I cannot post photos among the text. If you are really interested, it might be better to print it and then read while going through the photos and videos I've posted here. It's now also 4 days later and I still have to catch up on Portsmouth and two days in Dorset. Southampton dates to the S...

A 8 hour time difference between Amsterdam and Sydney and then a 9 hour difference between Southampton and Sydney is going to play havoc with this travel blog. It is set by the app and I have no control over which date it is going to display. The best I can do is begin each blog with the day it covers …. So this is Friday night the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd, beginning in Amsterdam and ending in Southampton. You know those children's educational toys, tha...

Ches, Gavin and Orta here. Signing in from Amsterdam. 33 hours in transit from Sydney Airport to Schiphol Airport via Incheon Airport. Just the three of us this time, as Tom was pensioned off when we moved into our retirement apartment. Tom Tom had been made redundant when most rental cars were fitted with satnav and certainly with the advent of Google maps. He'd never been completely reliable as you might remember from our holidays in Italy in particular. Orta ...

Well, here we are ... in the unique situation of flying in an aircraft with 2/3 of the seats empty. We always sit in aisle seats opposite each other. Easy access to bathrooms and at least one shoulder not jamed against another passenger. Maybe North Korean missile threats have scared people off. We have 10.5 hours to Seoul, 4 hours on ground and then 13.5 hours to Amsterdam. What a coincidence, Angie was also flying out for the U.S. and Europe at the same ...

Yes, Ches and I are still in Leichhardt, even though the time and date may be confusing. I've already set the time for UK time and no doubt the date will become totally confused when we travel back through time when flying to Amsterdam via Seoul. Hopefully I can reset both when we arrive there. We will be flying out of Sydney at 9:30am on the 1st June and returning on 22nd July. We'll be spending a couple of days in Amsterdam on our way to Southampton. That's th...