Day 4: Lucerne This morning we tore ourselves away from the cuteness of Strasbourg and headed to Lucerne. Fortunately our train departed at the decent hour of 10.47am (they are very precise!) so I was able to nip out for one more photo sesh before our little party carrying the ever-strategically packed luggage assembled in [...]
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Blogging on the tracks: Lucerne
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Blogging on the tracks: Strasbourg
Day 3: Strasbourg I declare Strasbourg to be quite possibly the most picturesque city in all of Europe. It’s right over here on the French/German border and seems to have been architecturally designed with the best of both. Around every corner is yet another photo op, geraniums are out in force, but the wobbly cobblestoned [...]
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Cruising the world’s mighty rivers
There are some uber cheap deals out right now (read on to save $1500!) and I have had my head filled with fancy notions of cruising along the Danube in a boat that holds 150 passengers and stops at new and quaint towns and villages each morning. I went to a swanky lunch with Viking [...]
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Cheap deals to UK and Europe!
Wow it seems I have a face for radio! Have just been in at Newstalk ZB having a good old chinwag with Danny Watson about these hot deals to Europe with Air NZ and Harvey World Travel. Those who zealously follow this highly important blog will know that I have just come back from a [...]
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London Fashion Week and the year of the fat girl
Shock news: Size 12 and 14 models are purported to be on the runway at London Fashion Week! (Here’s a link to the furore) I’ve missed the summer sales in London, but I have the heads’ up for NZ’s winter fashion 2010. Rip open the potato chips – it’s the year of the fat girl! [...]
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Blogging on the tracks: Paris
Day 2: Paris We leave Brussels nice and early (well the lady-like hour of 9.13am) bound for Paris on the speedy Thalys train. It takes 1 and a quarter hours and we arrive smack in the heart of the romantic city. The Thalys train serves food (free to us travelling in 1st class including a [...]
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Blogging on the tracks: Brussels
I am about to embark on an 8-day whirl with Rail Europe from London: Belgium, France and Switzerland. 8 days in 6 different cities with 12 strangers is probably not the way most tourists would do it, but I’m here to work (ahem). Photographing millennia-old cities and experiencing the vast Rail Europe system is a [...]
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Best little cupcake shop in London
What a find! I wandered out from my hotel – Corus at Lancaster Gate – to drag 10 days worth of laundry to the very nice washer woman who will deal with the reeking pile while I shop, when I stumbled upon this cute little cafe. The Cupcake Emporium at Lancaster Gate, it is. Memo [...]
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