Late on Thursday afternoon (12.30 am at home) Kent sent a text with the sad news that my godmother had died. While Ches had a good night’s sleep, I woke at midnight (8.00am Sydney time), gave up and read from 2.00 to 3.00 dozed to 5.00 and read to 6.00 and then decided a workout in the gym might do me some good. Then began 7 hours of frustration as I tried to call A Vanda’s daughter back in Sydney. My computer won’t allow me to log in to the ...

Sorry for the long gap in postings. We’ve been having such a good and busy time that there hasn’t been time to stop and reflect. I’ll try to catch up as briefly as possible. On the Saturday morning in Paris, we decided to give Musée de l'Orangerie a final try, and were rewarded for 13 years of patience. We were there at 9.30 and beat the crowds so were able to spend quite a long time in the two water lily galleries. We worth the 13 wait ...

We've been spoilt flying Business and 1st Class and returning to Livestock was a shock to the system. Mum and teenage son reclined their seats into our faces immediately after take-off and only returned to an upright position to eat briefly. OK, be grateful, I deleted a paragraph of self indulgent moaning about the rest of the trip. All I'll day is that it is going to take all 5 weeks of this trip to forget the experience in order to repeat it on the way home. ...

This is to introduce you to Ches and my travelogue at "travelpod". I posted three travelogues back in the early 2000's and forgot my passwords etc, so I am starting anew. We will try to update every day or so and keep in contact as we take a much more leisurely trip from Paris to Vienna and from Prague to Ireland.