Yet more travels under my belt, but not a blog update in sight. Sigh… France: Bordeaux, Medoc, Cognac, Provence, Avignon, Arles, Corsica, Dordogne (Rocamadour, Domme, Monpazier), St Emilion, Chamonix, mountaineering week around Mont Blanc massif Spain: Barcelona for Andy & Laura’s wedding, Montserrat Germany: Munich Netherlands: Amsterdam x 2 Switzerland: Zurich, Baden, Lausanne, Berner Oberland,, Read More
I had a few days to kill between flying in to Europe and flying down to Switzerland, so I took the chance to visit my friend and travel companion Jolien Blankestijn in the Netherlands. We met up in her home town of Apeldoorn, jumped in the car and drove west towards the coast. We, Read More
(Yet another trip well before the era of digital cameras! I’ll have to scan in some photos sometime…) While I was interning at ABB Power Generation in Switzerland in 1998-1999, I was able to negotiate six weeks off to backpack around Europe over the summer. Here’s a summary of the trip, with extracts from, Read More