Switzerland
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the Earth you can visit. The small village located in a valley of 72 gushing waterfalls is about an hour’s drive from Bern, the capital of Switzerland. The village is best known for its location within the valley allowing visitors to have a front row seat to the waterfalls that bring with...
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Travel Advice
The travel money card market is heating up once again with the introduction of a new product from ANZ to give savvy travellers a reward for spending whilst overseas. Introducing the ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Card which is packed full of features for both home and abroad that combines the need for having different additional cards to use whilst travelling overseas. In the past I...
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Hotel Review / Spain
San Sebastian, in the northern reaches of Spain isn’t front and centre in the spotlight as some of the more frequently visited destinations of Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and even Valencia are. However any trip to Spain requires a visit to San Sebastian and this amazing city located in the heart of Basque Country is not only beautiful but it also showcases a completely different Spanish...
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Hotel Review / New South Wales
Choosing accommodation in in Sydney can be a daunting task as you want to stay close to the harbour where all the action is happening. It can cost an arm and leg to stay in some of the world’s best known hotel chains that occupy the best waterfront real estate. However there is a an alternative, the reasonably priced Holiday Inn Old Sydney hotel located in...
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England / Fat Tire Bike Tours / France / Germany / Spain
Fat Tire Bike Tours are without a doubt one of my favourite tour operators in Europe and are a fantastic way to see a city for the first time or a great way to reacquaint yourself with a city you haven’t visited for a while. Operating out of Paris, Barcelona, Berlin and London the Fat Tire Bike Tours team offers a wide range of tours...
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Germany / Mike's Bike Tours / Netherlands
One of the best things you can do when you visit a new city for the first time is to experience it by bike. Not only will you get to see more in a shorter amount of time, by taking a bike tour you will also gain knowledge about what you’re going to see that you otherwise wouldn’t had you gone alone. Next time you’re...
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Busabout Oktoberfest / Germany
Oktoberfest, the world’s largest and most well known beer festival is an annual event, not just attracting thousands of people from all over the world, but millions with 5.9 million attending the event in 2015 which is down on previous years due to the refugee crisis gripping Europe at the time. This is truly one of those things you need to experience at least once...
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Busabout Hop On Hop Off / Germany / Liechtenstein / Switzerland
Today for me it’s the final day of travelling on the Busabout Hop On Hop Off network around Europe as we depart today from the Swiss city of Lucerne and head over to the German city of Munich for the fun and festivities of Oktoberfest. Along the journey today we will also stop off at the capital of Liechtenstein, Vaduz for a short lunch stop and...
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Busabout Hop On Hop Off / Switzerland
This morning another bright and early start awaits us for this second last portion of the Busabout Hop On Hop Off trip around Europe as we get closer to the world famous beer festival, Oktoberfest. Today the journey continues from Lauterbrunnen where we have just spent four nights in one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Today’s trip is really short, only taking...
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Busabout Hop On Hop Off / France / Switzerland
A new day and a new adventure awaits us this morning as we resume our journey on the Busabout Hop On Hop Off network of coaches and depart the French capital of Paris from the drop off/pick up point hostel St Christopher’s Inn. Our destination today is one of my favourite places to visit, Lauterbrunnen in the heart of Switzerland as well as Bern the capital...
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Busabout Hop On Hop Off / France
This morning the grand adventure around Europe continues, however today I’ll be doing something a little different and will detour away from the usual Busabout Hop On Hop Off coach network for one sector and will be travelling from Tours to Paris in style on the express high speed TGV Train. If I were to continue on Busabout, departure time from the pick up point would...
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Busabout Hop On Hop Off / France / Spain
Today our Busabout adventure continues as we depart Spain for the last time, where most of the time has been spent on this entire trip, and cross the border into France staying two nights in the Loire Valley city of Tours. We are slowly heading closer and closer towards our next major goal of attending Oktoberfest in Munich, also with Busabout. So far along this...
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Busabout Hop On Hop Off / Spain
Today the European adventure continues with Busabout after a week of fun and discovery on the Busabout Iberian Adventure Tour that concluded last night in Madrid. The journey continues on as we jump back on the Busabout blue coach and head north from the capital Madrid to the stunning coastal city of San Sebastian. This potion of the Busabout Hop On Hop Off network also...
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