So, last week I visited B in Germany. Aside from loooong (though fortunately unadventurous) train journeys, I had a wonderful time. The weather could've been a tad better, but compared to some of the initial forecasts, it could've been a LOT worse as well. We basically only had one day that was really rainy (and we had an indoors backup plan for ( Read more... )

Between lazing about on Sunday and trying to write procrastinating from writing, I found a New York Times blog entry where someone finally speaks out against the madness that are the “security” measures in airports.

I cannot say how much I agree. Which is why I have been avoiding airline travel like the plague for the past few years (not that I ( Read more... )

… no, not the Carribean! But of the Waddensea, that my dictionary tells me should be called Dutch Shallows, which just sounds too weird.

Anyway, last Thursday, me and a couple dozen of my colleagues boarded the twinmaster ‘Voorwaarts Voorwaarts’ (built in 1899…) for a day trip across the Waddensea to the island of Schiermonnikoog (the next day I ( Read more... )

I'm back! From the Svalbard cruise Austrian holiday with the entire family. And as an organized-at-the-speed-of-light alternative, it was absolutely perfect. But also exhausting. For someone used to living alone, it's quite a shock to the system to suddenly share a house with four other adults and a baby. So, in that aspect, a week was just the ( Read more... )

Got home today from my trip to Italy, after two remarkably uneventful days of travel. We managed to avoid the worst of the traffic jams on the German highways yesterday (thanks to the invaluable 'Lisa', our TomTom navigation guide voice), and the trains today were all on time and not overcrowded. This is how I enjoy travel ( Read more... )

Sam was bundled off to the animal hotel yesterday ( Read more... )

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Can someone explain to me how the American authorities knowing the number of the credit card I use to pay for a plane ticket to the US can make the world a safer place?

I made it back home, with two suitcases full of dirty laundry and over a thousand pictures. In both cases, some cleaning up is required ( Read more... )

Last minute scrambling to get things ready is mostly done. A few more minutes, and the taxi will arrive to take me to the train station.

Hurray, holidays are here at last!

Behave, while I'm gone ;-) And remember, updates are over at traveliary's.