Crossing from Azerbaijan to Georgia took over two hours as both passports and customs checks were undertaken by each country separately on either side of the official border, but once the stamp was in the passport we were then in country number 75 for our list. Woop, woop! Admittedly, the rural parts of both Azerbaijan and Georgia looked fairly similar with goat/sheep herders on horseback and a fair few dilapidated cars running around, but the difference between...

The journey to Baku in Azerbaijan (our 74th country) took most of a day with us leaving Derby railway station at just after 07.00 and arriving into Baku at just before one o'clock in the morning (local time, which is UK+3) having flown from Birmingham, via Istanbul including a four hour connection, with Turkish Airlines. This was our first trip with Turkish Airlines and they were pretty good and with a large network of flights (they fly to more countries than ...

A trip to the Somerset coastal resort of Minehead was on the cards after seeing the West Somerset Railway (WSR) featured on a TV show. I think my last visit to the railway was with my parents (30+ years ago) and Heather had never been on what is the longest steam railway in operation in the UK. Our day trip started with catching the 07.26 High Speed Train from Derby to Taunton, for a bus connection to Bishops Lydeard the southern terminus of the WSR around five ...

A slightly belated travel blog entry from Easter 2018 . . . . and with Easter 2019 coming up it seems about time I got this one done! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our trip to Berlin actually started in Dusseldorf as that was a reasonable place to get a flight to on the Thursday evening before Easter - plus it enabled us to travel across northern Germany by ICE train which is always a nice thing to do. Our fli...

This is certainly not our first weekend in Paris, and it will not be the last, but it may have been the first time we have had a trip to the French capital as a Christmas present to each other . . . . even though this was March! Travelling on the Friday evening we joined the Eurostar service at 2001 from London St Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord. Travelling in Standard Premier we arrived into Paris at just after 2315 (local time) and then hopped onto bus 31 that s...