We’ve just spent 4 days in Italy, a day in Milan and 3 in Rome. I feel that Milan has less to offer than some of the other cities like Florence and Venice which we visited last year. Maybe that’s because the rain made our experience of walking around Milan uncomfortable… I’m not sure. We […]
It’s amazing that a flight between London and Amsterdam is as quick as a flight between Durban and Johannesburg… 45/50 minutes. We took advantage of this and spent Saturday in Amsterdam. It’s a beautiful, clean city with canals and tulips everywhere. I really loved the buildings and apartments along the canals. Public transport within the […]
Spent the weekend in Madrid and we found the city to be lovely, clean, neat and pleasant to walk around. We stayed at Hotel Claridge, an elegant business hotel which, in my opinion, was a steal at just half the price of our hotel in Paris. The hotel is outside the city centre but, as […]
The first Monday in May is a bank holiday in the UK so we took advantage of this and spent the long weekend in Paris. On our previous trip to Paris we crammed a lot of sights and activities into a few days: going up the Eiffel Tower, The Palace of Versailles, The Louvre, a […]
Through My Pink Spectacles 