Hi all, Well I have finished the 3 rd day if 11 walking around Mt Blanc from France to Italy to Switzerland and back to France. We are in Italy now! I came a day early and went into the nearby tourist town of Chaminox and up 2 long scary gondola car rides 1000m's up the Mt. Then I took a little gondola 5 km across a glacier over glaciers to a peak in Italy. We could see people climbing Mt Blanc. Beautiful day I went to some of the observation decks but som...

Hi back again, I am actually in France having flown into Switzerland today to start my 2 week walk around Mt Blanc. But I am going to tell you about my 6 days back in the UK. I froze most of the time after the heatwave we had in the Balkans. I thought Cambridge was good but Oxford was even better! I walked all over Cambridge, along the canal with lots of barges, along the backs of the Colleges where they were doing punting I went to Kings College which was ...

Hi, back again, I am well into the 2nd trip now, travelling thru Albania from Montenegro to Greece. Trust me there is not much to see or do here! More fortifications and mediaval towns sure, but the place is dusty and dirty, lousy roads, few tourist sights or activities to do. Not ready for tourists yet!!! The food is cheap and ok. The capital Tirana is a horrible concrete ex communist city full of old Mercedes imported from Germany when they are to old to ge...

Hi everyone, I seem to have been on the go with this Eastern European trip for ages but no it's only been a week! Maybe because each country /city had similar attractions - a castle/ fort built by the latest conquerors on top of the hill and then a tragic history of wars. This area has had a war every 37 yrs on average. !!! Budapest was very pretty and historic and touristy, but it is less so as we move across. Croatia was expensive, Serbia was cheap - a poor...

Help to all. Well I got to Budapest safely after a great flight in the back row of quite a small plane. It looked flat and green from the air then quite Communisticalky grim coming into the city, But the city was beautiful with many very old buildings. Many have been restored since the war . Others still have shelling holes in them. I looked around the central area the first night , then the next day walked all over town seeing the Opera house,museums , monu...