Europe 2009 Top 10 Highlights

After spending a month travelling around Europe I thought it may be interesting to list 10 highlights in order to gain some perspective. Here they are. My top ten highlights in no particular order! 1 ) Travelling over the Swiss Alps 2 ) Swimming in Santorini hot springs, Greece 3 ) Hiking in Patmos, Greece [...]

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Travel with M.E: Family makes you feel at home

Travelling for the last time on our trip. We’re on our way back to South Africa feeling excited to see friends and family and settle into our daily routines again. So this is the last time I will write about this trip. We left off in Paris. Our trip from St Pancress to stratford was [...]

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Travel with M.E: Paris

Sitting on the Eurostar listening to Counting Crows ”Colourblind.’ a great song to finish a fast trip to Paris. Whats more, Liz just put a packet of M&M’s on my lap. Music has an interesting place in my life. It has become a refuge from stress, a place to explore my creativity, a way to [...]

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Travel with M.E: Living with the Swiss

Magrit and David Course are distant relatives of Liz’s who welcomed us to their home as if we were their own children. We were given our own room with our own bathroom and Lindt chocalate on our pillows. The house is a triple storey, so we essentially had a floor to ourselves. Magrit had a [...]

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Travel with M.E: Prague! Czech me out!!

Been there, done that, bought the T-Shirt, hoodie, backpack, Stella McCartney pants, Hard Rock Cafe shirts, bohemian crystals and the shot glass!! Needless to say we did alot of shopping in Prague! We absolutely loved it there!

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Travel with M.E: Athens to Santorini

Athens is a dirty, drug infested, crooked town! At least this was my first impression as I was driven to our hotel by a taxi driver who took every opportunity to extend our trip further than the necessary to maximize the cost of the already expensive fare! The driver dropped us off at the hotel [...]

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Travel with M.E: Mama Mia

In the words of the famous musicians an songwriters Abba “Mama Mia! Here we go again!” Liz and I have just boarded our fourth plane in five days. We are now off to Athens to sail around the Greek Islands for five days. Should be a welcome change from all the flying we have done.

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Travel with M.E: Cambridge

Well the holiday started started off very well. With the exception of not being able to get cash everything else has gone fairly smoothly and we are having an awesome time. Dan has taken us around the whole of Cambridge in detail and we have taken so many photo’s. I can’t wait to get them [...]

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Travel with M.E! Part 0.1

So the preperations are well under way! This is the first post for what I hope to be a series of writings that journal our experiece into Europe and the UK! So who is ‘M.E?’ Liz and I (Mike.Elizabeth) have been married for just over two years and we have dreamed of travelling together for [...]

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