Archive for August, 2007
Avignon
August 26th, 2007 by Todd
Nice to Avignon was the first leg of the trip using busabout, so I had an earlier morning to get on the 8am bus.
It was all quite straight-forward and easy getting sorted on the bus, and it wasn’t actually as uncomfortable as I expected so I was happy enough with that. In just 4 hours we [...]
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Cannes
August 26th, 2007 by Todd
I took a day trip on the train to Cannes from Nice, to check out the home of the international film festival.
Cannes is fairly similar to the other nice little cities along the coastline, but with more prestige. There were arguably more massive pleasure boats here than in Monaco. Apparently St Tropez, further down the [...]
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Nice
August 19th, 2007 by Todd
My original plan for today was to head to Cannes. I checked back in to the hostel, and had breakfast French-style, and then realised that today was Sunday and Cannes would be packed. Today would be Nice instead!
I spent the day wandering around the city. I spent some time along the waterfront – even sunbaking [...]
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Monaco
August 19th, 2007 by Todd
One of the people I met on the first night was a German guy named Christian. He was keen to go to Monaco the next day, so we agreed to meet up and take a day trip.
Firstly though, I had to take care of the fact that I had nowhere to stay for the night. [...]
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Turin. No, wait…Nice.
August 19th, 2007 by Todd
Well I got off to a great start (of course). Despite leaving home early enough to get to the airport well in time, Friday was not good for trains. I had to detour, and then there were delays, and eventually I arrived at Luton airport.. 5 mins too late to check-in. Crap.
It turned out reasonably [...]
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Beach!
August 15th, 2007 by Todd
I was absolutely stoked to read in the metro on Friday that a beach volleyball competition was going to be held in Regents Park on the weekend!!
I used to love playing beach in a local competition in Brisbane (at Salisbury sports – which at the time was easily the best club). A few of you have [...]
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I’m leeeaving, onnn a jet plane
August 14th, 2007 by Todd
In case you don’t know, I’m about to head off to Europe to do some galavanting. I haven’t toured Europe yet, so I’m going to be braving the crowds of Aussies, and tolerating the long cramped bus journeys – all in the name of seeing new things. I can’t wait!
This blog will hopefully see a [...]
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New toy
August 14th, 2007 by Todd
Warning: If techy stuff bores you stop reading now
I got myself a new gadget to use for travelling (but I have been wanting to buy one for years) – a GPS device. It’s a small, simple GPS data logger that can be used for the usual sorts of things. For example, finding your current exact location (within [...]
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Surfing in Portugal
August 13th, 2007 by Todd
The title of this post may be slightly misleading, because I can’t really surf all that well! Some friends and I went on a holiday to Portugal for a week and attended a learn-to-surf camp.
We spent our first night in Lisbon, and explored some of the city for just under a day. The city is quite [...]
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A night in Paris
August 13th, 2007 by Todd
During some Friday night drinks with Kirsty and John, we decided that it was a great idea to drive to Paris on the spur of the moment, and drive around the Arc de Triomphe.
John had apparently always wanted to do it, and who am I to argue! Phone calls were made, and we soon had a car load [...]
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