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Another flight, another city

After three nights in Melbourne, yesterday we flew on to Perth in Western Australia, which I last visited immediately after leaving school forty-four years ago. To give some idea of the scale of these things, WA is three hours behind Melbourne in terms of time zones and could not be described as [...]

November 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

A fond farewell

Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere continues and my father and I have now developed a working pattern. At night we retire to our rooms at about 9.00pm, having agreed to meet in the foyer beside the breakfast area at 7.30am the next morning. The next morning at 6.50am he calls me to [...]

November 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another hop completed

After another Singapore Airlines flight, this of six or seven hours’ duration – I cannot remember which because, with the three (or is it four?) hours difference between Singapore and Victoria, it’s very easy to get in a muddle – we arrived at Melbourne and made out way to [...]

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Roger, over and out …

I guess it was inevitable. After two full days in Singapore – the first of which we spent being driven around on personal guided tours and then having a slap-up meal at a famous private club … and the second of which we spent visiting the Bay South version of the epic Gardens by the Bay [...]

November 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming back to earth

I am a chastened gentleman. There is nothing quite like a well-appointed bathroom facility in a double room hotel suite in a foreign land to bring a chap crashing back to earth. Before making my way to my computer to compose this post report this morning I had occasion to visit said facility in [...]

November 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Spanish Riding School & Schonbrunn Palace

Yesterday we saw two of Vienna’s best known attractions. Tickets for the Riding School needed to be ordered in advance and Robert Tickler has chronicled his difficulties with the Viennese ticket agency. The position seems to be not unlike ticket agencies who purport to be the box office of [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Plachutta

Plachutta is one of the most famous restaurants in Vienna. It specialises in Tafelspitz, boiled beef the favourite of Emperor Franz Joseph. The cut of meat, normally rump, is prepared in a copper dish with onions and vegetables. This produced a delicious meat broth which you eat prior to the piece [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Missing the point

Over the weekend we had a visit from my brother’s family. Upon their arrival drinks were served and we sat out on the terrace in the surprisingly warmish November sunshine to catch up with each other’s news. After the more voluble had given us their potted summaries, I turned to my younger [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting to know Vienna and a strange encounter

Our first day was spent in the inner city and orientating ourselves. Yesterday I had a programme of visiting the food market (Naschmarkt) and museum area. The Third Man Museum was also close to ther Naschmarkt. Our first port of call was the ticket office of Vienna Classic to collect the tickets [...]

November 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Vestibül and Zum Schwarzen Kammel

Before I review the two restaurants we visited yesterday I would like to give my impressions of Vienna as a food City. Walking around the inner town, we passed through three food markets in open squares. It was apparent that these were not greasy burger joints as you might find in England, but [...]

November 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

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