Извиняете меня, вы говорите английскую язык? (Excuse me, do you speak English?)You'd like to think that question would at least provoke a No, a shake of the head, or even a shrug of the shoulder. But if you're a Russian lady at an information desk in a ticket office, apparently the correct response is to purse your lips and close your eyes.Conversation closed.That was the start of a 4 hour long mission to purchase our train ti...

4 Countries and 5 languages in 5 hours, no it wasn't a Contiki Tour in fast forward it was a weekend trip to Luxembourg and Belgium. Duncan and I got up at 3:30am to catch the train from England, through France, into Belgium and down to Luxembourg.It's crazy to think that in 5 hours we saw 4 countries in Europe.In 5 hours in Australia you probably won't have even left the state you started in! Luxembourg was, cute!It's a tiny city built on the edge of a lus...

I wonder if anyone has ever worked out the Carbon Footprint of New York City.I'm not even sure New Yorkers know what the environment is.Let alone how to be friendly to it.In the whole time we were there we saw only 2 hatchback cars, the rest where giant black shiny things that looked like small armored tanks.And don't even get me started on excess packaging, plastic bag use……………….. Now, you'd be forgiven for thinking we didn...

When it Rome do as the Romans do…………………….Well if Romans do nothing but eat pasta, pizza and gelato and drink coffee and beer then I think we did all right. Although it seemed that to be Italian you also had to wear the uniform.Giant aviator sunglasses (even if it isn't sunny or you are inside), a tailored puffa jacket, designer jeans, stiletto's for the females and shiny shoes for the males and a pout that makes Po...

Howdy Folks, a couple of weekend ago we headed north for a long weekend in Scotland.Some might think heading even further north for the first weekend of winter isn't the brightest idea we've had so far, but it was well worth the risk of frost bite and hypothermia to see this part of the UK. For this trip we decided to reduce our carbon foot print and take the train from Edinburgh to London.Ok, maybe we actually decided on this form of transport to reduce our c...