STEBO'S BLOG

Coffee and Croissants First thing, yeah no t-shirts!! I put on a colourful shirt from Rotterdam and headed off towards "Le Toucan" and...

The Eiffel Tower in all its glory! When I arrived at Rotterdam Centraal around 13:30, Stanislav had already messaged me to say he was...

Friday 26th August 2022 - თელავი At 09:00 we headed down for breakfast, I was pretty much still drunk! It was the usual sumptuous spread....

Monday 22nd August 2022 The alarm went off at 06:00. Giorgi messaged us and we went downstairs to the lobby. Most of this day would be...

Sunday 21st August 2022 - ბათუმი I stayed in the apartment until late, washing clothes and after headed up to do plane spotting at the...

ბათუმი - Friday 19th August Today we wanted to find postcards, visit the old city and arrange transport to Gori, our next destination. On...

ბათუმი Thursday 18th August 2022 For breakfast some Turkish simit, those round bagel like things with sesame seeds and some juice too....

Wednesday 17th August After breakfast, we headed out towards our meeting point for transfer to Batumi. They arrived late and it was a...

Tuesday 16th August 2022 We woke again to breakfast with spicy pickled peppers and lovely pomegranate juice. We contacted Dato who was...

Monday 15th August 2022 - თბილისი We woke up, showered then headed down for another fantastic breakfast. Stanislav decided that we would...

Sunday 14th August 2022 The castle fortress and Stanislav We woke up and had an amazing breakfast, the aubergines were excellent! I also...

Ready to fly Saturday 13th August We were up bright and early, at 05:30. We joined the queue for baggage at 06:30 and I immediately...

Friday 12th August 2022 Georgian wine I missed the alarm, got up feeling still drunk after a night drinking with the lesbian neighbours....

I packed up my last things, said goodbye to Sébastien's mother who also called me lazy and we drove to the white cliffs of Normandy. We...

On the night of the 12th, I treated myself to a couchette from Lucerne to Paris feeling the end of my travels. I was in need of comfort....

Almost ten years to the day before 9/11 I was in Switzerland. I only had a few hours in Lucerne, the weather was miserable and so were...

While in Munich I pondered either Dachau concentration camp just outside the city, or a trip to the mystical castle of Neuschwanstein in...

I had a slightly uneventful journey to Zürich, again following the protocol, find a hostel... While I was waiting for a tram, a man...

The train journey from Vienna to Munich was 5 hours. I was now getting used to the once terrifying idea of travelling alone. I was in one...

September 5th 1991 I boarded the train early from Graz, changing in Brick aan der Mur. This was pre-internet, so I took my Let's go...