skip to main content

Wandering the World

Stories and tips from around the world.

Europe

The Short Way Round

Europe was effectively a trial run for Australia and New Zealand to see how well planning a trip by ourselves like this would work. For this trip we planned to visit Berlin, Germany; and then to fly to Naples in Italy and to use the train to get from there to Rome, and then onto Venice before flying out of Milan to get to Athens in Greece. There were so many parts that could have gone wrong with tight connections, and there was a lot to see in three countries for one two week period.

===

You can also see the full album of photographs on Flickr or buy the photo book on Blurb.

The Colosseum of Rome

Contents

Recent Trips

Rwanda

Berlin
In the year that would see the 275th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach's, we would be heading to Berlin for the half marathon. > "One can profit there much more than in any other pl…

Cyprus
I didn't expect to be going back to Cyprus for a third time; though the timing of the marathon there, and knowing the conditions for it there would be warmer than in the UK made it a good choice. Carm…

Denmark
At the start of our Super Halfs journey, we set off for Copenhagen to do the first in this six race series that spans Europe. It was a chance for us both to explore a city neither of us had been to be…

Vienna
> “And I’ll dance with you in Vienna, I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photograph…

More Trips…

Recent Races

Phoenix Running Doughnut Dash Half Marathon

Northolt 10K

Leicester Half Marathon
Another week, another half marathon. Could I edge closer to being a sub-90 runner again, and beat Copenhagen and Cardiff? I certainly wasn't sure, but I was going to give it a go.…

Principality Cardiff Half Marathon
The second of the Super Half series, and one as close to home as we'd get. Though maybe races being closer to home don't always mean they're going to be easier to get to...…

The Big Half

More Running…


© David G. Paul