Fred’n’Sue’s Peregrinations

UNESCO World Heritage location number ?? Another bucket list ticked off.This post will be mostly photos because the commentary from Raksa, our resident expert, was so comprehensive that I can’t remember it all and would only bore you anyway.The temple, actually a complex of temples, was constructed in the reign of King Suryavarman II (1113…

Hmm – 1 am flight this morning – off on our next adventure – Vietnam, Cambodia and then to Istanbul via Mediterranean ports and then to Nederland . . . . . Yep.- favourite airline and via favourite airport – extra legroom booked!! Starting in and finishing in . . . . Part 1: Of…

A Peugeot 5008 7 seater was booked and we were anticipating bags under feet and between us on the seats but the hire company turned up a Fiat Talento 9 seater – for those in the know we had less baggage than 5 pax in a Hyundai in South Africa. How did we get onto…

Wet and miserable in the Hague this afternoon – perfect for staying indoors and updating travel blog . . 5 October – a birthday remembered – and after cruising the evening before from Köln and morning in the Rhine Delta Viking Vali docked at Kinderdijk – another UNESCO World Heritage site/cultural landscape. The locality is…

A few weeks ago now, but a certain person has asked me to fill in some holes in the blog!! 8.30 am on board the “skinny” #1 tram direct to Delft – 40 minutes later, walking to the south east corner of the city of islands, canals and bridges – first stop (apart from numerous…

The Wachau Valley is a World Heritage listed cultural landscape featuring vineyards (first culivation 800CE), castle ruins (including that where Richard Coeur de Lion was incarcerated), towns and villages some dating to the middle ages and monasteries (who do you think grew the vines?) And we press on to the Stift Melk or Melk Abbey…

Overnight cruising from Budapest and woke to this sunrise . . . This morning we stepped out/under Vienna on the U-Bahn – still wearing K95 masks and made our way into the centre of the city at Karlsplatz right next to Vienna Opera and, of course, Herbert von Karajan Platz And the afternoon was spent…

Day 1 was actually a motorway drive from Prague to Budapest – beautiful and green and wind generators by the hundreds en route. Arrived mid-afternoon and spent the afternoon exploring our home for the next 15 days – cocktails, briefing and dinner. 23 September – our guided tour was described as “Budapest Castle HIke” –…

Written on the bus en route Prague to Budapest . . . . No photos, but an observation – wind turbines dotting the countryside through Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary – literally hundreds of them – one way to wean off Putin’s gas!! Prague is definitely a city best seen on foot with sturdy footwear –…

So this is the plan – we fly into Prague (via Doha) for 3 days, bus to Budapest and join Viking Tir ?? for 15 days to Amsterdam, taxi to Den Haag to spend 5 weeks with the Noteboom-Baudry family. Some time in November we will brave the queues at Schiphol for the flight home.