Hi. I'm having 3 days between trips in Frankfurt. Not the most interesting of places. I 'd bought a hop-on, hop-off bus ticket. Probably the worst city in the world to use one- very little to hop off for!! Oh well, one learns!!I do have have some info to share tho. Frankfurt is the transport hub for Germany, the 2 nd busiest airport in Europe for people and no 1 for freight. The airport employs 60,000 people. 300 airlines use it. I've seen Mercedes and a PORSCHE ...

25/7/15 Hello everyone. Well I've moved along after nearly 3 weeks in lovely coastal Scarborough. I rode, walked and got the bus up there 20 miles north and south, 30 miles west plus 110 miles to Chatsworth house so saw a bit. I also saw another stately home at Bridlington which had any Amy Johnston exhibition PLUS a Downton Abbey costume display. Oh joy!I left Scarborough finally to visit a friend in Warwick ( near Birmingham ) for the day, staying in an histori...

Hello again. The cold weather has continued and today for our 2.30 am departure it was raining as well. What a pity. There was an attempt to be more organised at the site numbering buses, to stream line pick ups after. It was a shambles and took so long we missed nearly all of the little local town ceremony to say thanks to the Aussies for liberating their town in 1918.I saw nothing of the VB ceremony as inconsiderate people used umbrellas despite being told not ...

Hi folks, Well I made it here safely. Oh what a long flight it was. It was a full flight but the guy in my row at the window was upgraded to business! So the middle guy moved into the window seat leaving a spare middle seat. So I Immediately lay down on it. Got 5 mins sleep on the 13 hr flight! Well, maybe 10 mins. Now I remember why I came for 6 months. To avoid the flight. Sadly my bag weighed 25 kgs and is virtually impossible to carry up/down stairs. I e...

Hi folks. This is just a test as my whole blog on the iPod won't publish! Grrrrhhhh! Not happy. I'm ok, was tired after what seemed like an endless flight.Will see if this goes. Carol.