Endless Summer 2024

Knowing there is so much to see and do in Tokyo, we have to prioritise and make peace with the fact that our first day was a right off,...

Tokyo has been the secret highlight of the trip.  Of all the places we have been to, I am adamant that I will be coming back here again. ...

I like to think that I am quite accepting of all races and cultures and respectful of the people and places we have been.  Turns out, at...

We wake up the next day and realise the walking tour is not going to happen for us with rain coming down and Zach in a cast.  So we meet...

Of all the cities we have been to so far, this is hands down my absolute favourite.  Part of that may be that we are meeting Marty and...

With the doctor's prescription filled at the Apotheke we jump on a tram to the Zoo.  The reason we originally picked 6km out of the city...

Arriving in Vienna, I had quite a bit of anxiety.  We were leaving sleepy little Bratislava with everything a bit slow paced and old...

A city that definitely shouldn’t be overlooked if you are in this part of the world.  Although it’s quite spread out across the Danube,...

Our last couple of days in Budapest, our sleep is getting worse as the air con doesn’t work in the apartment bedrooms so we are all a bit...

With nothing for Zach to wear to the Opera, our day becomes a mission to find Fashion street and go down the main area looking for some...

There are two stops when you arrive in Budapest, either the Buda or the Pest side.  Turns out we don’t know which side we are on, and it...

Up early and trekking to the bus station, there is nothing to indicate where our bus is.  Barb and Bob managed to find it, however when...

Leaving Stobrec we decided that Ubers were costing us too much, we had plenty of time before our bus left for Zagreb so we would catch...

Today is Kaia’s birthday so knowing what crawled out of bed yesterday, I decided that music may help start the day.  The kids get woken...

Up at 5.45am, these kinds of mornings really suck.  The kids don’t want to get up, we don’t want to get up but that’s life.  Today Kaia...

Waking up to the announcements on the ferry we look outside and see the ship slowly making its way through all the islands to the port of...

Waiting at the platform in Bari, unable to see Gareth, there is an uneasiness and a bit of anxiety setting in that the one transport link...

Trips this long aren’t sustainable (for us) without having towns that we consider our downtime where we do bugger all.  Bari is one of...

Another early morning start, we make our way to Napoli centrale for breakfast and meeting point for our next tour - hiking up Mt Vesuvius...

On our first full day in Napoli we got up early (6am start) and caught the transfer to our boat for a day down the coast to Ravello and...