It was a long drive from Glasgow Airport following our morning flight from Belfast. Four hours and 47 minutes of driving time, to be exact. Our longest slog since we […]
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Porto
Porto was an easy day trip from our digs in the Douro wine region of Portugal, a picturesque drive through UNESCO World Heritage terraces flanking the River Douro as it […]
The Alentejo and Vicentina Coasts
The last day of our time in Costa del Sol on Spain’s southern coast marked the expiry of our three month Eurail passes. Amazing to think we left California that […]
Seville
We chased the sun south to Seville from Madrid, leaving behind some rain that was due to hit the capital. On weekdays there’s a high-speed train almost every hour from […]
Biarritz
We had quite the utopian existence for our days in Biarritz on the Basque Coast: sleep in, breakfast, morning swim, lunch, afternoon surf, afternoon Basque nibbles, dinner, sleep, repeat. Biarritz […]
Canton Valais and the Swiss Alps
After 34.6 kilometers/21.5 miles of darkness and ear popping through the Lötschberg Base Tunnel – which, when it was originally completed, was the longest railway tunnel in the world – […]
Gornergrat and the Matterhorn
The Gornergrat Bahn is Europe’s highest open air railway, stretching 9.3 kilometers/5.7 miles from the resort town of Zermatt at 1605 meters/5266 feet above sea level to its terminus at […]
Munich
We weren’t expecting a lot from Munich: another city on our way west and a good way to break up our train journey into the mountains of Austria and Switzerland. […]
Ljubljana
With only a few hundred thousand residents and 50,000 full-time university students, Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana (pronounced LEW-blee-AH-na [took us a little getting used to as well…]) felt like more […]
Vis
It’s amazing how chance encounters can shape one’s journey through life. When we arrived in Split a couple of weeks ago we hopped into a Uber for the ride between […]
Bassano del Grappa and the Dolomites
Bassano del Grappa and Surrounds Bassano del Grappa is one of the walled cities originally built by the Venetians and afforded us an excellent base for a week to explore […]
Cinque Terre
To explore Italy’s famous Cinque Terre – literally translated as “five lands” – we based ourselves in the quaint oceanside enclave of Riva Trigoso on the Italian Riviera. Our little […]