The Old School House was a very comfortable AirBnb loction, however it is set up with one apartment on the ground floor ( us) and one apartment on the top floor ( a family of heavy footed hippos!) We were woken at 7am by the hippos as they were getting…
Breakfast this morning was tasty but the best thing about the meal was the view! The other nice thing about the morning was a hot shower. We had no hot water last night at all in our room or Simon’s which was a bit of a worry. Fortunately we could…
We really were blessed today. It was an absolutley extraordinary day of amazing scenery in glorious sunshine, something we learned has been in short supply here over the summer. We had a big day of sightseeing planned so we hit the road promptly at 9am for a short drive down…
Iceland certainly lived up to the hype today! We woke to more rain and drove out of Reykjavik in heavy showers which wasn’t very encouraging. However they tell you that if you don’t like the weather in Iceland just wait 5 minutes and it will change…and it certainly did! Throughout…
We’ve left the sun behind in Finland! After a leisurely breakfast we set out to see the sights of Reykjavik in a drizzly rain that lasted all day. A stroll down the main shopping street, Laugavegur , we checked out a selection of the ( many) souvenir stores before a…
Most of the day was spent in transit, Simon and Jatta met us in the lobby just after ten and we hit the road back to Helsinki airport. Everything went very smoothly with checkin and we had our Icelandair boarding passes all ready to go. The flight was a bit…
Jetlag is a beast! I suppose I was lucky that I slept through to 5am but there was no way my bodyclock was going to let me sleep any later. We had another slow start, with a leisurely breakfast and a bit of blogging but we decided to head outside…
A good night’s sleep in a proper bed is like heaven after 2 days of travel! The bed was comfy and breakfast was abundant – some interesting options on the breakfast buffet that are very familiar to Finns but new to us – Karelian Pies are an oval pastry tart…
What a special day today was. We had been looking forward to it ever since Simon left Australia in August last year. The flight from Hong Kong was on Finnair and the service on the plane was outstanding. Finnair like to feature the lovely Finnish designs of their country, I…
It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally on our way. We indulged ourselves with a “night before” stay at the Rydges at Sydney Airport. It’s lovely to toast the start of the trip with some bubbly in the bar and on our last two stays we’ve been upgraded…
Our last day! I don’t count tomorrow as it’s purely a travel day. Luckily the sun was shining on us for our last day in Europe. The breakfast buffet was excellent and we noticed plenty of American accents at the egg counter, Americans do love their Marriotts! Id planned a…
Im glad we saw the mountains and the lake yesterday because this morning we woke to thick fog! It persisted throughout breakfast and we didnt shake it until we were well down the mountain on the road south. The route took us through very pretty, green rolling countryside tor several…
