Category: Europe
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TARTU – ESTONIA
19/11/24 – 20/11/24 We woke up to find Tallinn had been blanketed with a small layer of snow overnight – making our walk to the railway station a very pretty one! A park in Tallinn near the railway station, decorated in a light layer of snow Unfortunately, our trip to Tartu was going to be…
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TALLINN – ESTONIA
17/11/24 – 19/11/24 It was cold and dark when we left the Citybox Hotel in Helsinki, but with our stomachs lined with donuts and coffee, we made our way on the tram to the West Terminal harbour, to take the ferry across the Baltic Sea to the Estonian capital, Tallinn. A few companies operate this…
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HELSINKI – FINLAND
15/11/24 – 17/11/24 After two flights – broken up by a short stop in Riga Airport – we finally landed in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, around 8:30pm. The air was cold, and with the wind chill the temperature hovered around -4º, but that’s nothing that a big coat can’t fix! We took the train from…
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#3)
14/11/24 – 15/11/24 Unlike my experience last year, flying to Istanbul via KL, this particular journey went off without a hitch! We landed in Istanbul not long after 4pm (with my Dad in tow for another trip together!), and took the Havaist bus into the city. It was only going to be a short visit…
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#2)
22/7/23 – 23/7/23 Thanks to my British passport, I can get visa-free entry into Turkey, saving me the $90 e-Visa fee I had to pay last time when I only had my Australian one! After navigating through the long, Uzbek-filled immigration queue (flights from Samarkand and Tashkent had both arrived within 30 minutes of each…
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SOFIA – BULGARIA
21/7/2023 – 22/7/2023 A flight delay meant that I eventually landed in Sofia Airport just a touch after midnight, narrowly missing the last metro train into the city. Taxi it is, then! Luckily, this didn’t set me back too much! Bulgaria’s currency, the lev, is pegged at just under 2 to 1 with the Euro,…
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NAPOLI – ITALY
20/7/23 Getting from Nice, in the south of France, to Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, proved to be an interesting exercise in lacing together flights from two of Europe’s prominent ultra-low cost carriers, Ryanair and EasyJet. What it created, however, was an opportunity for me to spend a day in Naples, and a perfect chance to stuff…
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