We arrived in Cluj not too long after lunch-time. With it being mid-August I expected a wall of heat to hit me square in the face as I stepped out the plane. It was about the same as Luton. Nice, but certainly not the 40ᵒ I'd been told about. Apparently we arrived during a short cold snap. Probably a good thing. We could get used to it slowly. It's certainly hot enough now. Cluj itself was a bit of a disappointment. The airport was empty. We got our...

And we're off. The bus through to Glasgow wasn't too bad. And the shuttle bus to the airport was waiting for us when we arrived. Handy. Cost a fiver each. Nightmare. Plane to Luton was quick and easy. Luton airport's an odd place though. It's a fairly big one, but it was really quiet when we arrived. We kinda thought there'd be people rushing around at all hours of the day. The flight to Cluj Napoca (Romania) wasn't until the next morning. I thought ...

So here we go again. Off on another adventure. Its been a couple months since we came back from Europe. Its been great to be back. Hanging out with our families, doing a bit of work on Ailsa's house (not a huge amount though!); I even enjoyed doing a couple week's work with Cap Gemini. I say work; it was just two weeks sitting in classrooms, learning the ropes. But it was good to be pro-active again. I have a habit of getting very lazy if I don't have s...

Split was really good fun. It was great to get back into what was basically a big city. It wasn't so big as some others, but far busier than recent places and with a much livelier vibe to it. We were looking forward to moving on though (we always do). We'd made our way through most of the sights and even explored quieter parts of the city. Now it was time to get onto our first ferry to the paradise island of Hvar! The ferry was a bit of a disappointment. W...

Going to Split was due to be our first use of the Croatia Rail-Tickets that we bought, and would likely be the only time that we use it. After this it's boats all the way. We'd be about 7 hours or so on the train but we've had cramped buses for long enough now and even an old train would give us a lot more space to stretch our legs. Shockingly enough the train was on time. In fact, it was there early. There was one change in a city called Knin so I took the ...