Sydney is a town where movies are made. Either its set there or it casts itself as an imaginary setting – from Metropolis to Angel Grove, Japan to the Matrix itself. With the largest movie production studio in the Southern Hemisphere and rich talent pool of actors, actresses, directors and production crew. Its quite magical! […]
December 2019 We normally bug out of Sydney over Christmas – making the most of our time off to explore other parts of Australia or on a pilgrimage back to our families in Europe. The main reason we get away is due to the crowds – in the run up to New Years Eve Sydney […]
December 2019 About 40km north of the Sydney CBD is another world. The hustle and bustle of a big metropolitan city gives way to nature – forests, rivers and the only sound being a cacophony of birds interrupted now and again by the sound of a boat motor chugging along. We were to spend a […]
Nov – Dec 2019 After his last trip to Sydney back in 2017 it was time for the return of John Senior!! This time he would be travelling solo. The second trip is always the hardest to plan. Do you re-do the first trip or go for new places? We kept it neutral and did […]
Our last stop on our Oman Stopover was to visit the most famous landmark in the city – the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque. Opened in 2000, after six years of construction the Grand Mosque really deserves it’s title. It occupies the same square meterage of nearly 59 football pitches (416000 sq metres), contains over 300,000 […]
Our trip to Europe involved flying partly with Oman Air. Normally we would transit via the UAE or Qatar so we took this opportunity to add in a small stopover in Muscat as part of this trip. A new country for both of us bringing our totals up to 33 for John and 38 for […]
After spending sometime exploring the town of Como – it was time to jump on a boat and head up the lake. After Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore this is Italy’s third largest lake, Europe’s deepest outside of Norway and with a distinct inverse ‘Y’ shape provides a varied backdrop of mountains, shore-lined villages, beautiful […]
After our wedding in Tuscany, we jumped back on the train north, with a quick change in Florence, back to Lombardy. At the same time Karen’s parents – Iain and Bernadette were piling into their car and heading to the airport in Scotland to grab their flight – they would be joining us for the […]
A wedding in Chianti! The event had arrived. The (main) reason we had decided to travel to just Italy on this trip to Europe – the wedding of John and Joey. The shortest commute of the trip began with the 19114 Train to Empoli. Thirty minutes after we boarded we found ourselves outside the train […]
Posting from a recent visit to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, New South Wales
After our trip to Florence we had an extra day before we had to make our way to John and Joey’s wedding in Cinciano. A quick check of the map and transport possibilities afforded us the chance to visit somewhere that was on the Bucket List – the medieval citadel of Siena. We departed the […]
Taking a break from the city of Florence afforded us an opportunity to visit nearby Lucca on the train. Located 75km due west and on the banks of the Serchio River in a fertile plain near the Liguria Sea this one time rival to the Republic of Florence lies. This makes it ideal to visit, […]
Posting from our Summer 2021 trip to the Southern Highlands and South Coast. Fitzroy Falls near Kangaroo Valley and Tallowa Dam with the first JKRoaming appearance of our son Cillian.
Taking part in the Life in Colour Challenge (https://traveltalk.me.uk/2020/12/31/life-in-colour-photo-challenge-2021/) The world is a kaleidoscope of colour so this month let’s celebrate that with the brightest / most colourful images you can find. Mostly street art this month with some birds thrown in and a few other sights as well. You’ll never find a rainbow. if you are […]
And when I thought of Florence, it was like a miracle city embalmed and like a corolla, because it was called the city of lilies and its cathedral, St. Mary of the Flowers Marcel Proust In our previous posts we talked about how much we enjoyed the city of Florence – its various piazzas, palazzos […]
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