London Revisited
Our first visit to London had been back in August 2003, during a heat wave of 38 degrees celsius. We had ridden on the top of a double-decker Hop-On-Hop-Off bus to see many of...
Category: Destinations
A Coach Tour of England, Scotland and Wales
After a couple of weeks driving independently through parts of England, visiting ancestral locations and various relatives, we looked forward to having all decision-making regarding routes, accommodations and sightseeing made for us on a...
Family Tree Ramblings in London, Sussex and Kent
Having spent a few days investigating my paternal ancestry locations in northern England it was now time to see where a number of my maternal ancestors had originated. Working backwards from my mother who...
Getting back to my roots in Lancashire & Yorkshire
After years of doing family tree research it was finally time to visit those places in England where my ancestors originated, before they migrated to Australia. My father’s parents arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia...
Sankt Peter im Schwarzwald
Driving through the Black Forest in Germany many years ago, I was totally unaware that I was in the ancestral area of my husband. It was only after extensive research on our family tree...
Dachau – a Memorial
The concentration camp set up by the National Socialists in Dachau in March 1933 to house mainly political prisoners became the prototype for all subsequent concentration camps set up under the reign of Adolf...
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...
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...
