6/10/12 My god. We have slept in to 910 am. After a fantastic continental breakfast, we walk extensively around Frankfurt city for a few hours before deciding to take a 100 minute ferry trip up and down the Main River. All I can say is that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. The few hundred metres on either said of the berthing point is attractive, but beyond that on either side, all you see are industrial buildings, chimney stacks, cement works etc etc. Jess texts ...

5/10/12 arrive Frankfurt Airport 610 pm German time. Reasonably easy exit through immigration. Use my Italian passport for the first time. Wow, straight through the EU immigration counter whilst the rest have to do the push and shove with a few hundred Koreans. Jesse has caught the train from Mainz to meet us at the Airport. AWESOME!!!!!He then guides us from Airport by bus and train to Frankfurt am Main, the city train station. With the aid of smart phone Googl...

All good, flight only marginally late. After 10 bum numbing hours, arrive at Seoul delirious. We eventually clear immigration, followed by a 45 minute coach transfer to check into our 5 star Incheon hotel and mind blowing dining, included in Korean Air's ticket price for an overnight stop over. Flight for Frankfurt leaves 1pm tomorrow. Incheon, a location that was a ghostly empty 'in course of construction' infrastructure city only 3 years ago (when we stopp...

who needs to go to Europe? left home for Brisbane around 5pm got there 9pm, even though usually a 2 hr drive. Just before Uki, we encountered a detour sign fronted by a man in one of those orange vests usually worn by 'methys' trying to look work ready for Centrelink (accessed by motorised pushbikes). This man turns out to be the real deal, informing us that a semi trailer carrying a excavator has rolled over and the road is likely to be closed for at least 4 ...