Although this blog was started with the intention of covering a trip through various parts of Europe, and was ironically subtitled EUogising Europe, it may well be farewelling Europe in a travel sense. Anyone with any sense and compassion would have been moved deeply by Greta Thunberg's speech at the climate gathering in New York …
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Back to reality…
I should have said 'back to Melbourne airport' I used to think it was a good little airport, sensibly laid out with the two domestic terminals on each side of, and withing walking distance of, the international terminal. I might be a bit biased because early in my working life I helped to build Tullamarine, …
Dropping into Dubai …
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the fifth-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, and the sixth-busiest cargo airport in world. In 2017, DXB handled 88 million passengers, 2.65 million tonnes of cargo …
Overnight in Roissy-en-France …
You sometimes find the nicest places by accident. Whilst this end of Roissy is full of hotels, just up the hill there is a lovely village with quite a bit of history. It might be a more popular place to visit if it wasn't jammed up against the main Paris airport, Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle. After …
A visit to Arles …
I’ll be the first to admit to not being a religious person, although I can see some good reasons for it, and some dreadful excuses too. In Arles there are good reasons. I went to Arles with van Gogh in mind, it’s another place in Provence that inspired his paintings and the city is justifiably …
Eyragues …
A short drive south of Avignon is the village of Eyragues, where I spent a few days at a house belonging to a friend of a friend. A former farmhouse with attached barn it had been partly converted by a painter before the current owner took it on, opening up the garden, finishing the conversion …
They are like buses …
Foucalt's pendulums, that is. You wait for one for ages and then along come two at once! Having seen the one in the Musée des arts et métiers earlier I was visiting the Pantheon the next day and the copy that Napoleon III ordered be constructed is hanging from the dome there. Much bigger than …
Foucault’s pendulum …
I was taken to the Musée des Arts et Métiers when I was in Paris last year and I thought it a worthwhile place to revisit with my sisters. We went by Metro to the museum, and the metro station itself is well worth a visit, copper clad walls and with pieces of 'machinery' protruding …
We’ll always have Paris …
Places like Paris evoke thoughts, expectations, memories and more. There's a lot of history to absorb, some of which I have heard from the English point of view and thus not always exactly factual! And that phrase, "We'll always have Paris ..." Well, we nearly didn't, and it was the act of a selfless German …
On the rails again …
Today we are changing countries, and one of my sisters has never been in a country in which the populations speaks anything other than English so she will have some adjusting to do. The morning was a bit of a dawdle with a late start, a few conversations along the way, and then the Tube …
EUlogising Europe 2019 