Category: Travel Journal
Travel Journal entries for each day
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Today is our last full day in Rotterdam and its a bit of a grey one, so we are going to pick up the last few things we want to do here. It’s cool. but not cold, so I declined to take my jacket for a walk today. We started with breakfast near the railway…
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We woke up to a grey day in Rotterdam this morning and were confronted with some misty rain as we left our room for breakfast, which prompted a quick detour to collect our wet weather jackets. Ultimately, these were unnecessary, so I do hope my jacket enjoyed it’s day out being carried, rather than worn.…
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We woke up to another beautiful day here in Rotterdam with a warm 29 degree day forecast. Today’s plan was to head to Delft, another city close by with a rich history. We opted to catch a bus which was a pleasant drive through the suburbs that artfully dodged the motorways, taking us on a…
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Welcome to the 2025 edition of the ‘Beats Working’ blog, an account of our holiday for this year. Without giving too much away, this trip takes us through The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. One thing I can share is that Europe is a long way from Australia and this time we…
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We had improved weather in our last 2 days in the Maldives, so thankfully have had a bit more opportunity to get around the island. Of course we’ve continued to eat plenty of good food in between times. There are basically 3 places to eat. There is a buffet which has breakfast and themed dinners,…
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So a short blog again today. The weather was a bit mixed, with rain storms blowing through in the morning and another in the afternoon. There were plenty of sunny breaks in between. We started with a buffet breakfast, which is really the only option for breakfast here. The buffet does feature a wide variety…
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We are off for some recovery time in the Maldives, so the blog will likely be a bit shorter this week. As such, we had to catch an early flight this morning to Malé, which is the capital of the Maldives which incidentally is the smallest and second least populous of all the countries is…
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Today is our last day in Sri Lanka after an amazing couple of weeks, so today was about mopping up any of the things we thought we hadn’t done. After breakfast we set out on foot to take some photos around the Presidential palace in the older part of town. There are some amazing British…
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Our tour officially finished this morning after one last breakfast with Upul and the remaining members of the tour group. We all said our goodbyes and I have to say it was nice to not be on anyone else’s timetable for the first time in a few weeks. Deb had put together a plan of…
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We had our last breakfast in Galle this morning before departing for our last destination on the organised part of the trip. Deb and I will be spending an extra couple of days in Colombo before we go onto the ‘rest and recreation’ part of this trip. Getting to Colombo takes a couple of hours…