Travels around the Continent
"Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly." (Frederic Chopin) Thursday 1st September 1983That morning a I caught one of the frequent trains from Munich for the 90 minute journey to Salzburg. Upon arrival, I found that Salzburg station was divided into separate German and Austrian sections and that to leave the German …
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Chinese proverb - attributed to Lao-Tze) Saturday 27th August 1983The previous evening I had gone out for a supposedly swift after-work drink with my best mate to wish me well on my journey. However, it was not quite so swift and it certainly was …
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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." (Benjamin Disraeli) After leaving university and settling into relatively well paid employment, for my main holiday I had travelled with friends in successive years on trips to Canada, India and the USA. However, because in those days …
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” (Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad) This is the first post in what I …
Welcome to Europe Explored. This website was set up at the beginning of 2020 to record my travels around the continent of Europe. I've always enjoyed exploring new places, but realise I've been very bad keeping a chronicle of my visits. This blog intends to change that. I've now reached a stage in life where …