Europe 2011
Our Europe trip in 2011 was my trip of a lifetime.
It was the first time I had ever been out of Australia so we made the most of it with a 7.5 weeks holiday. We visited Singapore, England, Scotland, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, France and the Czech Republic
Our Itinerary
We had the best time ever and returned to Australia completely exhausted.
Read our story…
We arrived at the International Terminal with plenty of time to spare and sat around for the next three hours people watching before our flight...
We arrived in Singapore at about 5.30am and went through customs and immigration without a hitch...
We slept great!!! (Despite the bed being as soft as concrete).
Upon waking and checking over the documents for the next leg of our journey, we came to the realisation that we had PRE jet lag syndrome ie, our brains not working due to a time difference warp…
We awoke early today, picked up our hire car which ended up being a 5-door Vauxhall Corsa, sort of like the new Astra – it was much nicer and bigger than we expected...
We continued South and ended up at Stoke-on-Trent for our overnight stay...
We had an early start today and awoke at 4.45am to get to Heathrow on time to fly to Rome.
Compared to what we were used to in Australia, Heathrow Airport is huge and we flew from the new terminal 5, which has 3 sections – A, B & C… and is pretty hard to find...
We left the hotel and headed to the water bus to catch it to the hire car depot. We were told that the drivers of the water buses were on strike for three hours and that we couldn’t catch one until about 1pm...
We had breakfast with Aunty and then had a teary goodbye with her. We headed to Slovenia where we will be having an overnight stay on our way to Austria...
We left Bled this morning and Jana and Edi were kind enough to escort us to the intersection of the highway which leads directly to Austria...
We left Salzburg this morning for Fussen in pouring rain. There was a marathon being run in town and a lot of the streets were blocked too, so thank goodness for GPS…
Today was very uneventful and was spent in the car driving the 553km to Paris...
We left with Bruno at 7:15am to go to Orly Airport and catch our flight to Berlin. Everything was running on time and went smoothly except someone forgot to put the sunscreen in the suitcase and kept it in his hand luggage.
We had a quiet laid-back day today exploring Prague. It is quite a beautiful city with architecture that is reminiscent of Paris, in that it is very intricate but with more detail on the building facades...
We spent nearly all of today on the plane from Europe and arrived in 32 degree steamy Singapore heat safe and sound. Looking forward to a good night’s sleep…