Our European trip’s first stop after Toulouse was Carcassonne. Our main reason for visiting this beautiful French town – or more specifically its historic old walled city – was to tick it off Niall’s world wonder list, and my comments purely on the old city as a wonder will follow in a subsequent post. In…
Our European adventure was effectively two different holidays in one. Part two, which I’ll cover in later posts, was a trip Nicole and I took to Austria. The first half, though, was a road trip with a group of good friends from Aberdeen. Our main purpose was piggybacking on Niall‘s visits to three south of…
Montparnasse. My head was slowly adjusting to the French signs and adverts, to the sound of a not quite familiar language, and the value of prices in a currency I didn’t often use. The same hubbub and background noise of any major transport interchange, blurred by the high roof, but in a slightly different accent.…
Our three week rail journey through Europe began with a twenty-four hour trip from Inverness to Toulouse. It could not have presented a starker contrast between the antiquated rail system in Britain and the superb high-speed rail network of mainland Europe. Our sleeper from Inverness to London was a cramped, clunky and slow old beast,…