After arriving back in Paris (overnight train from Liechtenstein) we had one last night, then left early the next day for London on our last leg of our Busabout ticket. A night in central London near the airport bus station for Gatwick gave us some sleep before starting a busy travel day to Istanbul.  We arrived in Istanbul rather tired and aware that we needed to be up early the next day (and every day after that!) so didn't really look around Istanbul thi...

And so onto Liechtenstein which was a day of train and bus travel through the cities of Basel and Zurich with amazing Swiss scenery. Once again we had to manage tricky changes of trains and a bus along the way to get to our destination. Liechtenstein is far smaller than even Luxembourg at just 25 klms by 6 klms! The capital Vaduz is really like a Swiss village nestling in a small space of almost flat land at the base of towering mountains. A very helpful touri...

 We arrived by train to Luxembourg City after several changes at small French railway stations. (We had to wait for one train that broke down and delayed us by several hours).  Luxembourg City is charming, pretty and at just 57klm wide and 82klm long is Europe's third smallest country. The 1,000 year old city is built high on a hill, with remaining historic fortifications to be seen and the skyline is full of turrets and spires. We spent our time just wan...

Oh, to be back in Paris! It is an enchanting place and even more so this time as we met up with daughter, Ebony who arrived in London a month before on her working holiday.Our first night together was spent sitting up on the steps of the Sacre Coeur having a picnic tea and a bottle of wine. There were a lot of people and as it got dark a firework display began and we realised why the people were there. We did try to kid Ebony though, that we had organised this e...

 After taking the ferry from Tangier back to Spain we caught a bus to a place we could get to Gibraltar from. Gibraltar is still a British colony (of over 300 years) and more British than the British!! You suddenly re-enter a world of bobbies, double decker buses and high prices in British currency. The town is a narrow stretch of shops in the shadow of the giant rock.The highlight for us was the Barbary Macaques Apes which are the only wild primates in Europe....