Category: World Trip 2006
An epic 153-day world trip visiting twenty-four countries – South Africa; Swaziland; France; England; Belgium; Holland; Germany; Czech Republic; Austria; Switzerland; Italy; Vatican; Monaco; Spain; Finland; Russia; Belarussia; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Canada; USA; Hong Kong; China I traveled between 29 March 2006 and 28 August 2006.
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Tuesday 11 July 2006 Highlights: St Isaac’s Square & Cathedral, Eternal Flame, Yusupov’s Palace After the very big day of yesterday I had scheduled a tour of Yusupov’s Palace which was the home of Felix Yusupov and his noble family. Three months before the revolution on 16th December 1916 Felix conspired to kill the infamous…
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Monday 10 July 2006 Highlights: Pushkin Palace (Summer Palace), Petredvoert (Versailles of Russia), Attending the ballet – Swan Lake This morning I visited what is now know as the Pushkin Palace (after famous Russian poet) but was the former Summer Palace of the Tsars. This palace was occupied by the Nazis in WWII and…
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Sunday 9 July 2006 Highlights: Peter and Paul Fortress With a 6 am wakeup call and an excellent buffet breakfast (I might like touring after all!) we were off to Russia. Passing the border was an interesting experience, first you go through the Finland border (which didn’t take long), then you enter a sort of…
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Friday 7 July 2006 and Saturday 8 July 2006 Highlights: Sacre Coeur Monument (Paris), the sun still shining at 1 am (Helsinki) Friday Friday started with a very long travel day of over 13 hours, while the bus stopped in Bordeaux to pick up and drop people off. I stayed on or near the bus…
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Well here I am at the 100 day stage of this 154 voyage of exploration. From tomorrow I believe this is the longest I have ever been away from Australia, and for the first time I’m doing it all by myself. I’ve seen some weird, wonderful and different things during this trip; from bullfighting,…
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Thursday 6 July 2006 Highlights: Playa de la Concha beach Today I was determined to make it to the beach as you never know when the next chance might come (maybe in Canada). The weather has been very cold…… by that I mean 26-27 which is very unusual here. The overcast conditions kept…
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Wednesday 5 July 2006 Highlights: Beautiful beaches, lovely tapas bars I went out exploring this little gem of a town. Like Rio this town has a statue of Jesus overlooking the city, judging by the looks on people’s faces I think there is a lot of sinning going on here, wonder what the real…
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Tuesday 4 July 2006 Highlights: Burgos Cathedral Travelling today from Madrid to San Sebastian BusAbout had to put on an extra bus as everyone is keen to get to San Sebastian as it is located near the running on the bulls which is currently on. Unfortunately (or is that fortunately) I learnt that I…
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Monday 3 July 2006 Highlights: Palacio Real, Cathedral de Nustra Senora de la Almudena Today I choose to visit the Palacio Real (Spanish Madrid Palace). In the end I picked a day that had the Spanish King in attendance (which is rare). I believe he was meeting another head of state but I…
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Sunday 2 July 2006 Highlights: The excellent Museo Nacional Del Prado, Attending a Bullfight After a rare good breakfast (and free!) I headed down to see the Museo Nacional Del Prado which contained some real gems including: – The Three Graces ´by Peter Paul Rubens – Parnassus ´by Nicolas Pussin; and – Las Meninas ´by…
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