Our European Trip

We kept blogs of our 5 week journeys to Western Australia in 2008 and the ‘Top End’ in 2009 and I can no longer imagine travelling without keeping such a record to share and for posterity...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/reflections-on-returning-home/

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Darcy Moore  I awoke pre-dawn and wandered around some of the less touristy parts of Discovery Bay with my camera. I felt rewarded by what was on ...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/last-day-in-hong-kong/

I feel a little weary after another long day and could pretty much say of Macau, in a very short post, we were extremely pleased we made the effort. And it is an effort to take the ferry to anot...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/macau/

It was too wet to journey to Macau, as planned, so we caught the ferry to Central and ascended ‘The Peak‘ via the tram. Turned out pretty well as the rain cleared the pollution and we spent q...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/the-peak/

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Darcy Moore Four months ago we made a pact with the kids regarding our travels. If they were ‘good travellers’, a day at Hong Kong Disneyland w...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/hong-kong-disneyland/

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Darcy Moore We had a fantastic, exciting night in Hong Kong enjoying the vistas, markets, superb food, bustling streets, ferries, bargains, odditie...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/kowloon/

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Darcy Moore This blog is a record of our ‘European Trip’. However, it is reasonably fair dealing to mention Hong Kong, as it is on the way ho...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/central-hong-kong/

The last time I left London, it took 16 years to return. It would make me sad if so many years were to elapse before my next visit. However, one assumes, sitting here in our crisp, white, wifi en...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/the-leaving-of-london/

My Twitter buddy Zoe Rose showed us around Cambridge. She was great with the girls and it was a good opportunity for us to have some more local knowledge of the university town. Lucy was swayed...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/cambridge/

We spent most of the day at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery in London. This meant there was a good balance of photography, contemporary art works and masterpieces for u...

https://oureuropeantrip.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/galleries/