Just before going to university in the UK, a couple of friends and I picked up our rucksacks and set out on the traditional Grand Tour of Europe.
We had a fine old time, and the experience triggered an apparently unstoppable yen for travel. I moved to the Netherlands for some years, and some of the less well organised pages on this site come from that period, because I was only just figuring out how the internet worked and what I could do with it. As the rest of the site matured over the years, these pages just got converted willy-nilly from one architecture to another, so if you find one that looks a bit amateurish… sorry.
I still travel in Europe at least once a year, though not every trip is interesting enough to merit a blog entry. This is also the part of the site that is most likely be updated with the stories of past trips.
Blogs from Europe:
- See it. Say it. Sorted.
- A Reality Check
- A Tale of Three Marinas
- Fitting Out for Cruising
- New Life, New Crew
- Grape Harvest in Extremadura
- Ducks in a row
- Yacht Survey
- The Next Boat
- Diving the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Waterfalls and Geysers
- Ice by Tyre, Boot and Tölt
- Lake Myvatn
- Iceland’s Herring Adventure
- Snæfellsnes Road Trip
- Wolves and Karst in Antequera
- Vine Pruning in Extremadura
- Trujillo
- Bicycles in Seville
- Mezquita Mosque-Cathedral at Cordoba
- Hanging out in Malaga
- Cunard in Malaga
- Trans-Siberian Express through Russia
- Red Square and the Kremlin
- Moscow
- Bromptons in Bordeaux
- Flåm Valley
- Oslo
- Dublin
- Malta
- Mallorca
- The Jaufenpass
- From Cortina to Venice to Siena
- The Grossglockner Pass
- Berlin
- A Lesson in Dutch Bureaucracy
- The Police Station Toilet
- A Drinking Tour of Holland
- Total Eclipse 1999
- Six Blokes in Barcelona
- Loire Valley
- Luxembourg
- Springtime in Finland
- Riding to Utrecht
- Lemmings Afloat in Greece
- Oberstaufen
- Schwarzwald and Titisee
- Mosel and Rhine
- Coast to coast, by motorcycle, in the snow
- Scandinavia by Train: 5 – The long haul to the Arctic Circle
- Scandinavia by Train: 4 – The Rallar Road
- Scandinavia by Train: 3 – Oslo to Myrdal
- Scandinavia by Train: 2 – Vigeland Park, Oslo
- Scandinavia by Train: 1 – Calais to Copenhagen
- Three Men on a Train: 13 – Paris and Versailles
- Three Men on a Train 12 – The Grindelwald Glacier
- Three Men on a Train: 11 – Florence and Pisa
- Three Men on a Train: 10 – Vatican
- Three Men on a Train: 9 – Rome
- Three Men on a Train: 8 – Venice
- Three Men on a Train: 7 – Pompeii and Vesuvius
- Three Men on a Train: 6 – Zakynthos
- Three Men on a Train: 5 – Athens
- Three Men on a Train: 4 – Yugoslavia
- Three Men on a Train: 3 – Budapest
- Three Men on a Train: 2 – Vienna and the Orient Express
- Three Men on a Train: 1 – England to Germany