Our first random location worked out well. Trying to balance out our Schengen time https://chosenfugue.xyz/2018/10/07/schengen/, looking for somewhere easily accessed after our 14 hour bus ride, on the coast and a faded, Victorian seaside resort. Bingo. A two hour layover in London, enough time for a walk past Buckingham Palace, buy adapters and a coffeeContinue reading “Bonfires, Bands and Beaches in Eastbourne”
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Schengen
This is a bit of an update from our original post in 2018. In visa language “Schengen” translates to travel math. Actually it is a name of a town where an agreement was reached between European countries to allow free travel between without going through border control. For the tourist, Schengen is an area, prettyContinue reading “Schengen”
Belgium part 2
Not sure what it was about Antwerp. The contrast of our monastic hostel room to the exquisitely tiled/painted/carved ceilings/walls/floors of almost every surface? Wide boulevards with huge, stately buildings with fingertips of narrow winding streets lined with delicately, detailed row houses? Waves of people- walking, riding bikes- there was a vibrancy with a super pleasantContinue reading “Belgium part 2”