Theo on travelling through Romania One disadvantage of the sleeper-train that spirited us through the night from Vienna to Bucuresti was passing through an entire country in between, yet seeing nothing. All I can report about Hungary is that the border police who woke us loudly at 1.25am to check our passports were younger and more […]
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Amsterdam to Bucharest overnight… We had a great start in Amsterdam, early morning, easy packing, and a sense of the journey really beginning! We were early for the train and the Netherlands swiftly moved on by, replaced by German industrial towns until we reached Frankfurt where we had our first stop. A swift twenty minute
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Departure from Platform 9 & 3/4’s I was working all through our final night at home, getting our house in order before our good friend Pete arrived at 6am to take us to Castle Cary station. So most of my 1st day of travel was spent groggily dosing on the Eurostar from Kings Cross St
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Alkmaar and Amsterdam! Everything went so smoothly yesterday…Pete chivvied us out of the door at 6.00 am and got us to the train at Castle Cary (early) …we had time for a pasty at Paddington station and a leisurely journey through London. Eurostar was a bit of a conveyor belt and our first experience of
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First stop Castle Cary Station Will we make it to Castle Cary?…it’s a very early start and it’s five miles away. If we miss the train it might be a sign…
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What do you do when you get to the last day before you are leaving home for nine and a half months and you haven’t bought insurance, got rid of either of your cars, started packing or booked your travel beyond Bucharest? Well that’s easy… Buy insurance, get rid of both your cars, start packing
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