Travels in Europe

Our first day in Vienna was a busy one. We spent the whole day at the Schönbrunn palace, but there is a lot to do there! First we did a tour of the palace appartments and adjoining rooms. We had an audioguide that walked us through some of the royal family history of Austria, as…

Today we woke up in Brussels and went to sleep in Vienna, but we actually spent the majority of our day in Germay (on the train all the way across). We hopped on our first train around 8:30am and that train took us from Brussels to Frankfurt. The train ride was about 3 hours and…

Today we started our day at a park called Little Europe. Appropriately named, the park has smaller replicas of cities, landmarks, etc., from all over Europe. Think if you were at a Europe themed mini-putt, and then take out the golf. Each new country section would play that places national anthem and many of the…

Started the day off right, with chocolate! Our first adventure of the day was a chocolate making workshop. We’ll actually more of a chocolate pouring and decorating work shop, but still. In the class we made tablets and lollies and chocolate shapes. I made a mickey mouse lolly, a Pikachu lolly, a chocolate Christmas tree,…

Started the day with a little walk about in our area. We are not too far from the Grand Place, which is home to the city hall among other historic buildings. The buildings themselves are pretty impressive with their ornate detailing and imposing height. Then we carried on down the road to a classic tourist…

Today we were off to Brussels. It was just one short train from Paris so the travel day went smoothly. We arrived in Brussels in the early afternoon and got settled in. Shae went out and did a few things in the evening, but I decided to stay in and rest to try and kick…

On Saturday we said goodbye to London and headed for a quick stop over in Paris. We took the Eurostar from London and arrived in France just under 2 hours later. When we arrived, we hopped on a second short train to take us basically right to our hotel where we were staying. We decided…

Unfortunately I started to feel a bit under the weather today 🙁 Just a cold if I was to guess but as a result today was a rest day. I had some activities planned for today, but I decided to skip them both to protect others from whatever I might be fighting and to allow…

Today we had a little less on the agenda, which was probably for the best given how busy we were the day before. The first thing we did today was a bus tea tour of London. It’s exactly what it sounds like, you have afternoon tea on a double decker bus and drive around London…

We started the trip with a full day planned. Our first stop of the day was the natural history museum of London. We got there right when it opened so it wasn’t too too busy. You can seem most of the museum in 3 hours which is what we did. My favourite exhibits were, of…