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RE: Travel Diary 1978 - Part 2 - Dover (UK) - Oostende Belgium - Luxembourg - Holland

in Silver Bloggers โ€ข 3 years ago

The banks are still closed here on Saturday and Sunday ๐Ÿ˜‰

"Continental breakfasts" are quite different from an English breakfast - no roasted sausages and no beans.

Plans are made to get changed as needed, and I think you might have had to change other planned things too in the next weeks, because Europe is different, and there are more differences than 20:14 is not 14:14 ๐Ÿ˜‰

Interesting 2nd part, Joan, I wonder how the places look nowadays. The impressive Dover castle certainly doesn't look that nice empty anymore as on your photo - tourists everywhere.


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We got a lot wrong, what was excellent was using the trains, having a rail pass with the Youth Hostels being everywhere. Not a problem once you got used to time zones changes things that we never experienced here.

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ย 3 years agoย ย 

I believe you and I remember the Rail Pass - never used it, but a lot of young people have been traveling that way these days.
Yes, the time zones and the daylight saving time or summertime must be quite confusing - it is confusing for me too ;)


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Rail pass offered extreme ease of movement, trams, vernaculars in some countries, paddle boats.

I think it was relatively new in South Africa, don't know anyone else who used this way of travel. Contiki Tour Holidays had also started being recognized at the time, I preferred trains, you see more of nature gliding past the window, hop off when the mood takes you.

Having done first trip with my Mother and younger sister found we had seen so many cathedrals inside and out, wanted more freedom of choice and direction. Mum took the same attitude later doing two NORWEGIAN MAIL BOAT CRUISES on her own. I looked into the possibly doing this about five years ago, our currency..... Damn, wait for crypto ๐Ÿ˜‚

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I think I have told you before that I never liked to travel by train, going by bus is even worse in my eyes ... at least in a train they have real toilets ๐Ÿ™„

I would also prefer to have more freedom to go where I want and change my mind sometimes ... cathedrals are beautiful, but there are a lot of other things to see, even better ones ๐Ÿ˜‰

I know these cruises in the Scandinavian area - beautiful views, fjords and landscapes for sure.


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Train offered an opportunity to meet more people, at the time we would never have driven in Europe not knowing roads nor areas, yes you had toilets, most important!

Touring by bus I found you were falling over the same people daily even though from different parts of the world, ushered through planned sites at speed.

Each has unique taste when traveling, my Mom went North, my Aunt a spinster traveled Asia in bus tours, she loved sights and sounds of the East,

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Yes, that's true, when you use such a touring bus you have the same people around you for the whole tour and there's a fixed plan what to visit and when and where to eat - always in a rush.

I prefer to travel with my car and one day hopefully with a camper van ๐Ÿ˜€


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Remember wrong side of the road... Well much the same for us through Europe ๐Ÿ˜, would have been nice if they rented motor bikes those days, now thinking back those roads had very few vehicles on them!

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