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After all, inside every older person is a younger one wondering “What the hell happened…?”

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 6 NOVI SAD & SREMSKI KARLOVCI, SERBIA

16 July 2026 No Comments

Next up after Croatia was Serbia. We moored at the city of Novi Sad, one of the European Capitals of Culture, full of varied baroque, neoclassicism and succession styles, all…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 5 VUKOVAR AND OSIJEK, CROATIA

15 July 2026 No Comments

Continuing down the Danube we crossed into Croatia and moored in Osijek, Croatia’s largest river port. We took a walking tour around the citadel which has the largest number of…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 4 MOHACS AND PECS IN HUNGARY

15 July 2026 No Comments

After our memorable visit to Budapest, we cruised down the Danube to Mohács, and did an excursion to Pécs, both also in Hungary. The excursion took us through Baranya County…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 6 NOVI SAD & SREMSKI KARLOVCI, SERBIA

16 July 2026 No Comments

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Next up after Croatia was Serbia. We moored at the city of Novi Sad, one of the European Capitals of Culture, full of varied baroque, neoclassicism and succession styles, all…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 5 VUKOVAR AND OSIJEK, CROATIA

15 July 2026 No Comments

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Continuing down the Danube we crossed into Croatia and moored in Osijek, Croatia’s largest river port. We took a walking tour around the citadel which has the largest number of…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE – 4 MOHACS AND PECS IN HUNGARY

15 July 2026 No Comments

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After our memorable visit to Budapest, we cruised down the Danube to Mohács, and did an excursion to Pécs, both also in Hungary. The excursion took us through Baranya County…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE 2025 – 3 BUDAPEST

7 November 2025 No Comments

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This was the second revisit of the trip for us, but as with the Vienna stop it encouraged us to see some different things. We had remembered seeing the dramatic…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE JULY 2025 – 2 BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA

8 September 2025 No Comments

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For our second stop on the Danube we left Austria and sailed to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, sited on the Amber Road, an ancient trade route linking Northern and…

DANUBE RIVER CRUISE JULY 2025 – 1 VIENNA

6 September 2025 No Comments

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This was our second visit to Vienna with Viking as this cruise started there and so overlapped with the end of our first river cruise in 2022. However, Vienna is…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 21: AUCKLAND FINALE

27 December 2024 No Comments

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We travelled back down the eastern side of the island to Auckland, back past some nice views near Orewa and then of the city as we approached the highway to…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 20: BAY OF ISLANDS

26 December 2024 No Comments

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Russell was a pretty little place with some more colonial style buildings which it seems I failed to photograph! There is a very posh hotel which the guides like to…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 19: WHITIANGA TO RUSSELL

26 December 2024 No Comments

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Spoiler alert – this post is a biggie!! You have been warned! Ok so the title is not quite right either, as first we have the drive to Whitianga…. From…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 18: ROTORUA

25 December 2024 No Comments

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From Napier we drove to Rotorua, via a couple of stop offs. The first one was Taipunga Falls, and then Lake Taupo, a big lake in the centre of the…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 17: NAPIER

23 December 2024 No Comments

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After the van issue was nominally sorted, we were without transport for the day. Our tour guides Robbie and Gail stepped in, having already fielded over 30 calls regarding our…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 16A: WELLINGTON TO NAPIER

19 December 2024 No Comments

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This journey was quite special for many reasons, the main one being our ongoing issues with the van we were given in Queenstown. The first part of the drive, from…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 16: WELLINGTON

19 December 2024 No Comments

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So next up was Wellington, the capital of New Zealand / Aotearoa, though not the largest city. We grabbed a taxi into town and our first stop was the Te…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 15: PICTON

19 December 2024 No Comments

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From Kaiteriteri we drove to our last destination on the South Island – the port of Picton. I included a photo with a big truck coming the other way just…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 14: BULLER RIVER & KAITERITERI

17 December 2024 No Comments

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From Westport we headed inland to crossover to the northern coast of the South Island. We drove along the Buller River in the Victoria National Park, and stopped off to…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 13: SHANTY TOWN & PAPAROA

17 December 2024 No Comments

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Next up was a shorter drive up the west coast from Franz Josef to Westport. We stopped off first at Shanty Town – one of those outdoor museums where buildings…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 12: FRANZ JOSEF

17 December 2024 No Comments

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Once more on the move, we left Arrowtown to head for Franz Josef. This was the longest drive of our trip and allowed us to realise that the replacement van…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 11: ARROWTOWN & QUEENSTOWN

17 December 2024 No Comments

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The day after the Milford Sound excursion we were off again, this time to a site at Arrowtown, near Queenstown. Again, some wonderful scenery on the way and a very…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 10: TE ANAU & MILFORD SOUND

17 December 2024 No Comments

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Still playing catch up here. I had hoped to finish the Down under posts before the trip we are now on. However, this cruise has quite a few sea days…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 9: INVERCARGILL & BLUFF

4 December 2024 No Comments

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From Dunedin we headed south down the coastal route again, our destination being another Scottish named town – Invercargill. The views were varied and we visited a small but pretty…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 8: DUNEDIN

1 December 2024 No Comments

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We arrived in Dunedin campsite which was located just behind a lovely empty beach. We were then treated to a night of wild weather and rocking vans! As I found…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 7: MOUNT COOK AND MOERAKI

30 November 2024 No Comments

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After Christchurch we were taken to pick up our vans which will be our homes for the next month. I should mention here that we were in a group of…

TRIP DOWN UNDER 6: CHRISTCHURCH, NZ

30 November 2024 No Comments

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On 27th February we flew from Melbourne to Christchurch, New Zealand. Its only about a 3 hour flight but there was a further 2 hour time difference to add to…

Another Viking Cruise !

25 October 2024 No Comments

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Still playing catch up here, so this will be a big post for the Antiquities Cruise we did last Christmas (2023). This was a bit of a wild card –…

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