Welcome to my adventure!
Hi all,
Welcome to my "travel diary" for my European trip in 2006. So why have an online one? It certainly beats writing in a "real" diary, I find it takes too long, and I change my mind about what I write too often and pen and paper doesn't come with a backspace or a delete key (kinda why I've taken so much to digital photography as well!). And you can't really share a paper diary with anyone else.
I'll try and update this whenever I can, any chance I decide to sit down at a computer that is. This'll probably all be in text format, but I'll see if I can add photos whilst I'm on the road.
Eventually, stuff from here with the photos I've taken will get onto a website. Eventually.
Yeah yeah, you say you've heard this before ... I'll admit my last travel website is currently stalled in construction as I simply haven't found the time to add anything. Which is a shame but the enormity of the task probably overwhelmed me. Hope this time it'll be different. At least this time I'm only trying to post 3 1/2 weeks of travel instead of 320+ days ...
So why a European holiday, again, you ask? Last time I went to Europe in the autumn of 2003 was great, really enjoyed it and was an introduction to Europe, and there's so much I wanted to see in more detail, and of course there's so much of Europe I hadn't seen.
The last trip rekindled my enthusiasm in aviation and was an introduction to watching major cycling events. This trip sort of builds on this and more. At the moment I haven't put together an itinerary yet (you'd think someone who puts together itineraries professionally would find this easy, but it's not). Here though is a rough idea of what I want to do:
- London Transport Museum's tour of the Acton Town depot.
- Take the Airbus factory tour in Toulouse and hopefully see some A380 test flights from TLS.
- Watch some one day cycling Spring Classic races, the Paris-Roubaix and the Ronde von Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders). Not sure how much racing I'd get to see but just to experience the atmosphere in two of the most prestigious one-day races of the year in the cycling-mad Flanders region.
- Visit the Technik Museum in Germany, home to a Concorde and it's Soviet copy, the Tu-144 on stilts, also a 747 on stilts and a collection of racing cars (it is close to Hockenheim!), should be paradise for me. ;-)
- Visit Belgium and hopefully Luxembourg, as well as Germany, places I didn't make it to last time round and really wanted to.
- Ride my beloved British buses, and this time visit another UK city to ride the "older" step entries that London has abolished. Hopefully see another UK bus museum.
- Ride the Eurostar from London to Paris in daylight ...
Welcome to my "travel diary" for my European trip in 2006. So why have an online one? It certainly beats writing in a "real" diary, I find it takes too long, and I change my mind about what I write too often and pen and paper doesn't come with a backspace or a delete key (kinda why I've taken so much to digital photography as well!). And you can't really share a paper diary with anyone else.
I'll try and update this whenever I can, any chance I decide to sit down at a computer that is. This'll probably all be in text format, but I'll see if I can add photos whilst I'm on the road.
Eventually, stuff from here with the photos I've taken will get onto a website. Eventually.
Yeah yeah, you say you've heard this before ... I'll admit my last travel website is currently stalled in construction as I simply haven't found the time to add anything. Which is a shame but the enormity of the task probably overwhelmed me. Hope this time it'll be different. At least this time I'm only trying to post 3 1/2 weeks of travel instead of 320+ days ...
So why a European holiday, again, you ask? Last time I went to Europe in the autumn of 2003 was great, really enjoyed it and was an introduction to Europe, and there's so much I wanted to see in more detail, and of course there's so much of Europe I hadn't seen.
The last trip rekindled my enthusiasm in aviation and was an introduction to watching major cycling events. This trip sort of builds on this and more. At the moment I haven't put together an itinerary yet (you'd think someone who puts together itineraries professionally would find this easy, but it's not). Here though is a rough idea of what I want to do:
- London Transport Museum's tour of the Acton Town depot.
- Take the Airbus factory tour in Toulouse and hopefully see some A380 test flights from TLS.
- Watch some one day cycling Spring Classic races, the Paris-Roubaix and the Ronde von Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders). Not sure how much racing I'd get to see but just to experience the atmosphere in two of the most prestigious one-day races of the year in the cycling-mad Flanders region.
- Visit the Technik Museum in Germany, home to a Concorde and it's Soviet copy, the Tu-144 on stilts, also a 747 on stilts and a collection of racing cars (it is close to Hockenheim!), should be paradise for me. ;-)
- Visit Belgium and hopefully Luxembourg, as well as Germany, places I didn't make it to last time round and really wanted to.
- Ride my beloved British buses, and this time visit another UK city to ride the "older" step entries that London has abolished. Hopefully see another UK bus museum.
- Ride the Eurostar from London to Paris in daylight ...
- Have a holiday ... I really want one.
Well, it's still more than a month until departure ... so a lot more still to come. Hope you'll enjoy this journey as much as I do.
Cheers,
Kin-Yat
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