Well everything is set for next years holidayMelbourne to Dubai then to St Petersburg board the Ms Surikov to Moscow the fly to Kiev for a couple of days then to Madrid Spain next stop Lisbon Portugal Morocco Spain London Dubai And Home 60 days later should be a good trip just hope no floods this year Len

Wednesday 10th July 2013 published
can pub phootos
Well we are home after a great trip from Singapore to Melbourne we had the best seats witch we got at 21 01 Sunday night so we had a go flight. When I get time now I can published some photos I will get some on so you can see what wehave done Len and Val

  Today we went for a tour of  Bratislava. The weather was lovely the sun was shining.
  First stop was the cathedral.

St Michael's

We walked through the town the building were very ornate There are a lot of tourist because of the summer. Some of the buildings have the glazed tiled roofs  that are very  beautiful.

We went through the archway into the courtyard to find a small market .Every where you look there are little coffee shops and cake shops. There are souviors

            Friday 14th June 2013

We are now on the boat but they are telling us we won't be sailing till Saturday so today we are going buy bus to Regensburg there we saw just how high the water got.

Here we are next to the boat

              Friday 14th June 2013

Well spent the night on the boat at last for the next couple of days all it will be is a hotel,

This will be our base and we go by bus they are saying we have a good chance to sail on Saturday

                                         Len and Val next to the Amadeus Silver in Nuremberg

So to day we went to Regensburg and saw just how high the water got in that town then lunch at Ratskeller Restaurant which is over 100 years old for a typical Bavarian meal.

                                        You can se the water mark on the yellow house
The it was off to Weltenburg Monastery which is the oldest Abbey brewery in the world they have been brewing beer here since 1050 and a small drop had to be sampled

                                                               judgement not a bad drop

Friday 28th June 2013

Today it was the day we set out to see the island and of course drive the T T circuit witch is a great drive and most of it is on open road only time you have to slow down is when you come to the villages the when we got to Ballaugh after a walk around the new church cemetery and found nothing Val found Steve sitting in his car out of the rain he was cutting the grass but the poor man had no escape after a while he had to give her a name of the parish warden we had a feeling this may lead to something well all it proved was this is where the Corlett clan came from.

So it was back down the road to the Ballaugh bridge and the Raven Hotel that everyone knows or should known and a pint of Guinness.

Then on to Ramsay then back to Douglas via the coast tomorrow it is the 15 00 ferry back to Liverpool.

Len and Val

  Friday 28th June 2013

  After the train ride from London to Liverpool then the boat ride on the big cat it was a couple of pints of Guinness it was off to bed.

The car was waiting for us at the door so Thursday it was a short drive around town we then found the Manx museum where we spent quiet some time on the family tree thought we were getting somewhere until we had a good look at it and it was the wrong William Corlett.

then went for a drive to Castletown  and St Marys in the south of the island got back to the hotel about 7 00 o'clock  it was Mexican night 20 pound for two with two side serve's and two main courses and two beers that was day one on the isle of man.

Len and Val

    Monday 24 June 2013

Today Barbara Peter Val well I had to go too.
To Greenwich with a boat ride down the Thames which was a good ride after a look through the maritime museum a couple of pints in the local pub with a feed of chips and garlic bread got back to the hotel at 18 00 and had a early night
Len and Val

 
Sunday 23rd June 2013

Now we are in England and with Wi-Fi should be ok now after breakfast it was a bus ride around old London town with a stop at Tower Bridge.
Then on to the changing of the guards before those who did not wanted to go back to the hotel were dropped off in the west end.
where Peter Barbara Val and I had a good feed of fish and chips before we made our way back to our hotel via the underground finished of the night with a couple of beer cheese and biscuits sorry there are no photos something has gone wrong and I can't load them.

Thursday 20th June 2013

Today we left Koblenz for Cologne to one of Germany's oldest cites

The Cologne Cathedral

 

Then it was on to Amsterdam and then to Brussels  and onto the Euro Stat for London nowwe are here the blog we be published daily

Len and Val

 

 

Wednesday 19th June 2013

Today just after breakfast we dock at Rudesheim and joined the Winzerexpress  a mini train ride to Siegfried's Mechanical Music Instrument Museum

                                                           Just one of the exhibits.

     

Here we are at the look out over Koblenz.

The view of Koblenz with its vineyards

 

Then it was back to the boat for the ride down the Rhine River through the spectacular Rhine Gorge past the infamous Lorelei Rock and to Koblenz.

The reason there has not been any thing on our blog the Wi-Fi was not working on the boat

Len and Val

  

 

                          

   Monday 17th June 2013

     Today we visited Wurzburg with is vineyard for a walking tour and visited the Bishops Residents.
Then in the afternoon it was a visit to the old town of Rothenburg the only town in Europe with its old city walls intact.

                                               Just sampling some good German Sausage

                                                 The sausage was bloody good.

                                        But it had to be washed down with a good ale.

Tuesday 18th June 2013

This morning we cruise to Wertheim know for its glass works, then back on the boat and headed for Miltenberg a old Bavarian town with some of the oldest \buildings in Europe had a little technical problem the ATM took my card and would not give it back and the bank staff were on lunch and would not come back till 14 00 hrs and as they had to come down from the second floor it would be 5 or 10 past before I would get it and we were to sail at 14 00 hrs and a good 15 minute walk back to the boat so it was up to Herbert to fix it which he did.

Len and Val 

       Friday 14th June 2013

Well after our 14 hour bus ride from Budapest to Vienna we were on a boat but not the Amadeus Silver she was still down stream some where we are on the Amadeus Brilliant which is going to be used as a hotel till the water goes down they have hopes that tomorrow when we get to Nuremburg the water will be low enough for us to sail.

                                                    Val in the town square in Bratislava

Well Saturday came and we were told we sail at 18 00 after all this time staying in hotels and riding around in buses we finely sail at 18 00 and the mood was more relaxed on the boat.

                                                     Len in the back streets of Bratislava

    Len and Val

       Monday 10th June 2013

Well we are back on the bus not a boat to go Vienna the rivers are not going down as we all had hoped so we get to Vienna about 17 00 hrs  had a good night sleep and next morning a city tour back to the hotel and after lunch went back to the city and got caught in a down pour then had a quite night the bar.

  Tuesday 11th June 2013

It was to Salzburg with stop for lunch  a photo stop and souvenir shopping

  

Val in Salzburg

 

Then it was a long 12 hour ride after we left Salzburg to Nuremberg with a drive past Melks Abbey

We were to stop there but because of the flood it was a drive bye after a stop for coffee and cake at   17 00 and got back on the road for t two and a half hour ride Peter ask Nora our bus tour director if she any beer on board and she came up with the goods we have spent the day in Nuremberg and tomorrow we do some sighting on the bus and we are all on Nora's bus at this stage we hope to leave Nuremberg on Saturday but who knows

 

     Saturday  June 8th 2013

Our departure from Prague to Budapest left on schedule, we stopped two hours down the road for a comfort stop it was then we had a little technical problem. The bus would not start. After forty minutes Joseph our driver gave a BINGO cry from the engine bay as the motor started.
Our next stop was for lunch and Joseph was told do not stop the engine. It was  then we  first saw how high the river Danube was.

Sunday June 9th 2013

Our day started with a city tour with the first stop at the Hero's square where I met my marathon running team.

                                                            Len and his running team
We then crossed the river into Pest to get a view of Budapest from then other side of the river.

                                   Budapest Parliament house with the water up to the steps

 

                                                                   

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                                                             The Fisherman's Bastion
        Tomorrow it is of to Vienna  by bus not by boat hopefully the river will drop we are told our  boat is ready and should be in Vienna by Wednesday or Thursday.

Len And Val

 

         
Friday June 7th 2013

Well again this morning we awoke to the news the floods are not getting much better but we are going to Budapest tomorrow Saturday the 8th but today we went to Sychrov Castle its history of the area goes back to the 14th century some parts need a little maintenance but in all its not to bad a condition its just over an hour drive into the north west of the Czech Republic country side and had a  meal it was back on the bus and back to Prague.
Val and I then walked to the Charles bridge as everyone is to look at the flood waters.

Or to have their photo taken in front of the bridge with on one on it there was quite a crowd there

Val in front of the Charles bridge Prague

 

So we are all keeping an eye on the weather and waiting to see happens after Budapest.

 

 

Awoke this morning to hear the floods in Europe are not much better but the good news is it is not any worse .
So today it is off to Hradcany Castle and the Prague castle both are in the same area and we were to walk over the Charles bridge but it is closed because of the floods

As you can see the water is very high so we had to cross the river by a newer bridge down stream

Val and I with Prague in the back ground

Any after the walk back to town there was need for a small drink just for the thirst and it worked
tonight it is out for dinner at the Castle where we were tis morning a late start tomorrow .
Oh just to let you know a 500 ml bottle of beer is cheaper than a chuppa chop and water well that is just to dear, so I will just have to give water a miss. 

Love
 Len and Val

 

 

 

 

                                              Monday 3rd June 2013

  Good flight over all went well got to Singapore Airport arranged transfer nice surprise got free tickets for hop on hop off bus plus tickets to attractions around Singapore lie the Singapore Flyer a big wheel The Garden by the bay a cool climate glass house.

                             View of the gardens by the bay from the top of the Singapore Flyer

another view from the wheel

                                                      inside the garden by the bay

                                               another view inside the Garden by the bay
                   and with it being 32 out side\and comfortable 22 inside and no humidity you get to like the garden.

Day two was a little quitter just a walk in the botanic gardens a walk thru little India and China town for the best feed of battered prawns  you could.

Left Singapore 23 55 Tuesday night for a twelve hour flight to Frankfurt then a 50 minute on to Prague

 

 

 

  Now it is just waiting for the 2nd of June everything is booked and pay for from trains to  ferries  to

  hotels in  the U K London Liverpool Isl of Man, Diss, Oxford to London all in ten days so watch

  this space

  Len and Val

well now better news we have been upgraded again to the deluxe suite on the boat BudaPest to Amsterdam