Day 577, 10 Jan '16, Early stroll across town and the Seine via the Saint Eustache food market (complete accident), Paris Walking Tour, Eiffel Picnic, Art Deco Exhibition, Champs Elysees until we got soaked, coffee & cake , Sushi Galore. We first visited Paris 3 years ago and thought it would be grand to revisit the Sandeman's Free Walking tour we did that very first cold, wet day. Aside from anything else the day dawned cold and we AND we love free tours a...

Days 575-576, 8-9 Jan '16, Farewell Malta - Bonjour Paris! The 8th was packing and cleaning day. Most definitely never a favourite day, but slow but sure won the race and we eventually wrangled everything back into our bags. Rather chuffed to be flying Air France to Paris tomorrow... 23kg each for our check-in backs (vs. 20kg) and 12kg (that's right, 12kg!) for carry-on. C'est super! The day of the 9th actually dawned not too shabby. Darn hard to see the dawn...

Day 574, 7 Jan '16, Malta Pass Day 3, Must. Keep. Going. We have been sightseeing like crazy and have made it to Day 3. Mdina, Ta'Qali, Naxxar, Mellieha, Qawra and FlatTyre. The on-the-ball among you might notice that last place name looks a bit funny - can assure you the incident wasn't though. (Also Days 564 and 565 were doing the time warp... and weren't to be published til 2016... has been amended!) 1. (9.00 am) Domus Romana - Roman House in Rabat, just ou...

Day 573, 6 Jan '16, Malta Pass Day 2, It had to happen... by the end of Day 2 our feet were just too darn sore to visit the final planned attraction. Just a cave. Ice age mammal fossils. Probably cold and dark and another 40 minutes driving on bone-shaking roads. Seen caves before. Of course up until 3 pm when we called it quits... we went ballistic! 1. (9.00 am) Hagar Qim & Mnajdra Temples. Old. Real Old. Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge old. The st...

Day 572, 5 Jan '16, Malta Pass Day 1. What, pray tell, is a Malta Pass? Well first off it's the thing we were patiently waiting for in Turkey for weeks - before we spent a day exploring the vagaries of the Turkish Postal Service (perfect oxymoron). But more specifically, a city pass (or in this case a country pass) is where you cough up a certain amount, here €49 each, and then can go to as many attractions and sites within 3 days as is humanly possible. We ...