Salzburg and the Sound of Music
Millions of tourists come to Salzburg each year to pay homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) who was born here and lived here for his first 25 years. A museum devoted to him and...
Category: Coach Tours
Budapest Revisited
There’s a lot to see in Budapest, from the magnificent hilltop Palace complex on the Buda side of the Danube, to the grandiose buildings and boulevards of Pest. Our coach tour accommodation was on...
Vienna – Encore!
When we booked our coach tour of Central Europe we realised we would have a second chance to see a couple of major cities – Vienna included – having just called in there on...
Prague – the City of a Hundred Spires
Situated on the Vltava River, this wonderful city has more than its fair share of historic spired buildings. Known locally as Praha, it was founded during the Romanesque period and its building exhibit the...
Munich, München, Muenchen
No matter how you spell it, this city is one of the most prosperous and fastest growing cities in Germany. The name is taken from the old German word for Monk, since the settlement...
Prague, Vienna & Budapest with Cosmos
Not content with travelling through Germany, Austria and Hungary on our Rhine/Danube river cruise, we next embarked upon a coach tour that would have us spending more time in some already visited cities, plus...
Barcelona to the Costa Brava
Our HAL cruise on the Rotterdam finished in Barcelona, arriving in the afternoon, but allowing us one more night aboard the ship before an early morning departure. This gave us one last opportunity to...
Córdoba and La Mezquita
Ask anyone who has been to Córdoba what is the most important attraction and they will tell you – La Mezquita! This was one of the most impressive mosques in Spain during the occupation...
