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I think I might be dreaming...

Mon, 30/11/2009 - 8:24am — wingsaway

Imagine arriving at an airport check-in area to find waist high glossy white counters with vases of fresh flowers and music playing from speakers behind the computers!    Low scales that you don't have to lift your cases on - with digital read out in kgs and pounds.  Cheerful and really nice check-in staff.  Then you get to the gate lounge - more low white counters, and more flowers.  Then 2 hours before your flight goes, a nice young man comes out and scatters brightly coloured bean bags around the gate lounge, all this and we haven't left Fort Lauderdale yet.

Anne's tales from the Main and the Rhine - part 2

Fri, 09/10/2009 - 1:07pm — wingsaway

To follow on from last time, we thoroughly enjoyed Wurzburg - a good sized town - about 130,000 people, as with all the other, beautifully situation on than river and very pretty.   The town is dominated by The Residence - the former home of the Prince Bishops, and every so big, grand and opulent.  The high point of the day was getting Barry some new glasses - old lenses in new frames and 100% successful.  In the afternoon I took the opportunity to go to Rothenberg on an optional tour - only 50kms away and I wanted to visit for old time's sake, having visited two or thre

Anne's Tales from the Main-Danube Canal

Fri, 09/10/2009 - 1:01pm — wingsaway

Last time I wrote we were about to dock in Passau - the first of our German ports of call.

Beautifully situated at the confluence of three rivers, it was yet another very pretty town and we enjoyed our afternoon thee very much.     Although, Barry did manage to break his reading/sunglasses so we spent much time in an optometry place in a vain effort to get them fixed.  Ended up buying a pair of magnifiers at the 1 Euro shop and those are doing the job.   A beautiful sunny day, like all the others. 

Water levels are not a concern for no

Hello from Bratislava

Fri, 02/10/2009 - 3:42pm — wingsaway

It has taken me so long to get the time needed to send a proper note, not to mention an efficient internet connection. Have been having so much trouble with that. More than one week into the trip, and I have to say it's going at a cracking pace. The days are just flying by. Back to the beginning:

I must set the scene by saying that today is our 9th utterly perfect day - weather wise. Until today we had not seen a cloud of any kind.