Category: World Trip 2024 Balkans
A 33-day European focused adventure visiting Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Singapore from 5 April 2024 to 5 May 2024.
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Official Name: Republic of PolandEstablished: 960 (Duchy of Poland)Population: 38 million (2022 census)Religion: 71.3% CatholicLanguage: PolishCapital: WarsawOrder of Visit: Seventy eighthFirst Visit: 09 April 2024 (planned)Last Visit: 11 April 2024 (planned)Duration: 3 DaysExpected Highlights: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Visit, Wawel Royal CastlePlaces Visited: KrakowPoland Journal Entries
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Tuesday 07 May 2024Highlights: Reunion’s – Darby with Lana, me with Boots and Juno The journey home can be a long one, especially from Europe and today was the end of that journey that start on Saturday 4 May back in Split. Today started with an overnight flight from Singapore (review here).
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Monday 06 May 2024Highlights: Universal Studios Singapore The last day of this trip with a fun activity had suddenly arrived. After a comfortable sleep in Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Hotel we took our main bags to be checked in to the Jewel Early Bag Check in facility. For Jetstar this allows you to drop your…
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Sunday 05 May 2024Highlights: The Jewel Water Show One of the major downsides of living in Australia is how far away for the majority of the world we are. Returning back takes a long time. The first leg getting back was Split to Helsinki (3 hours), than a major transit (8 hours) followed by Helsinki…
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FinnairDate: 5 May 2024Gate: 42Seat: 34D & 34H (Economy Class Seats)Plane: Airbus 350-900Boarded: 23:52Pushback: 00:23 (Scheduled 00:25)Arrived: 17:43 (Scheduled 18:35)Duration: 12 hour 20 minutesDistance: 9,271 kms
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Saturday 04 May 2024Highlights: Finnair Non-Schengen Business Class Lounge Today is the start of the long journey home. Six of us had organised to go to the airport together – Theresa, Ivan, Megan, Alexa, Darby and myself. We had breakfast together and order an Uber van. T he vehicle that showed up however was not…
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Friday 03 May 2024Highlights: Smooth Ferry Crossing, Exploring Diocletian’s Palace, Farewelling our group Early morning start as we needed to drop our bags off for transfer to the ferry at 6.30 am. With the breakfast buffet opening at 6.30 am and us needing to walk to the ferry at 7 am today was not the…
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Thursday 02 May 2024Highlights: Enjoying Palmizana Island Today was a day of leisure on Hvar with a morning visit to Palmizana Island. First up I was woken up early by a crying toddler 😦 But breakfast helped get the day back on track before our cruise to Pakleni Island.
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Wednesday 01 May 2024Highlights: Ferry to Hvar With a 2 pm departure from Dubrovnik Darby and me were keen to get back down to the Old Town and use the Cable Car for a different prespective of the area. Unfortunately just as we were about to buy our ticket they shut down the cable car…
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Tuesday 30 April 2024Highlights: Exploring three islands of the Elaphiti; Kolocep, Sipan, Lopud. Today was a free day to explore Dubrovnik and the surrounding area. I was struggling a bit with the crowds yesterday (I can’t imagine peak season crowds) so Darby and me decided to book an all day cruise trip to local island.
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