August 2018 in pictures

Whoops, it's nearly October. But managed to squeeze this one in just in time!   And check out my blogs about my trips to Valencia, Montpellier and Geneva!  

Gallivanting around Geneva

The trip from Montpellier to Geneva by train was a little more chaotic than planned, with our initial train direct from Avignon to Geneva being cancelled (new word learnt: supprimé), meaning we had to take a train from Avignon to Lyon and then change there to Geneva. But we arrived just over an hour later than…

Mooching around Montpellier

After taking the train from Valencia, we arrived in Montpellier pretty much on time (weird for my travelling luck, but not complaining). Our hotel was perfectly located opposite the train station. We stayed at Hotel Comédie Saint Roch, All in all pretty good with friendly staff, but the breakfast was a little chaotic (I sound…

Zooming through Zürich

And then comes my personal favourite - meaning it was such a shame we only had just under 24 hours here! After four days in Austria and five days in Italy, we took the train from Desenzano, via Milan, and arrived in Zürich. What a city! Our hotel was a small ibis budget hotel (because…

Being shown-a Verona

Sorry for the rubbish pun. It took me a while to think of it, eventually with help from an online rhyming dictionary. Tim had actually already been in Verona and became the tour guide for the day, so the title does kind of fit! Admittedly, Verona was the least exciting place we went to on…

Venturing off to Venice

In total, we must've been about 5-and-a-half hours in Venice. When we'd initially booked the train tickets, I was a little sceptical at having such a short amount of time in a brand new city. But it actually was enough, and we were even already back at the train station for about 20 minutes waiting…

Descovering Desenzano del Garda

On the way to Desenzano, we changed over in Verona and everything went smoothly, which is unusual for me I didn't complain. The weather was glorious! On the first night, we just had a stroll along the lake and went for some pizza. When in Rome! (Well, north of Italy at least). On our first…

In(n) Innsbruck

So, we arrived in Innsbruck, quite taken aback at the huge mountains surrounding the city. We headed to the hotel (and we somehow managed to get a good offer on a really nice hotel, even to the point where I was worried we were at the wrong place when we rocked up). But I wasn't…

Austria, Italy and Switzerland

At the end of July, we jetted off (well, on a train) to various locations for our summer holidays. In total, we were actually only 10 days away, but due to us jumping from one place to another, it weirdly felt a lot longer. I've decided to write about each place in a separate blog…