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TRAVEL BLOG AND ITINERARY
a travel blog
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Taking your five year old around the world...yes we are nuts!!!
Our trip involves flying from Melbourne, Australia (our home town) to the US, on to London, Tunisia, and then Europe.
How will we cope with a bored five year old? Is our schedule too tight? Will we see all we want to? Will we have the experiences we expect and hope for? Will our other kids kill us before departure?
An adventure of a life-time awaits!!
| Trip Itinerary (Travel Blog Entries) | |||
1 |
Melbourne | '06 | Planning!! |
2 |
Denver | Jun 26 '06 | Day 1: Melbourne-Denver
"The waiting in lines, to wait on customer service, to wait for boarding, to wait on an airplane, to wait for baggage, to wait for a bus…and to finally arrive..relief!" |
3 |
Denver | Jun 27 '06 | Day 2: Elitch Gardens
"Billy loved the Dodgem cars and was extremely aggressive, so we’ve decided he can drive in Italy." |
4 |
Denver | Jun 28 '06 | Day 3: Georgetown
"Striped pedestrian crossings are great, because it appears cars have right of way…which makes them completely pointless." |
5 |
San Francisco | Jun 29 '06 | Day 4: San Francisco
"There was a busker outside who was crouching down and holding a small tree branch in front of him, he would scare unsuspecting passers by." |
6 |
Walnut Creek | Jun 30 '06 | Day 5: Walnut Creek
"Cinderella can be summed up in one word…crap! Or two, if you want the long version…really crap!!" |
7 |
Ontario | Jul 01 '06 | Day 6: Ontario
"I don’t think I’ve ever played Eye Spy before with so many changing rules…all geared towards us losing and Billy winning." |
8 |
Los Angeles | Jul 02 '06 | Day 7: Los Angeles
"LegoLand was good fun, it’s really geared towards kids 5-10 years old" |
9 |
Los Angeles | Jul 03 '06 | Day 8: Los Angeles
"Hollywood Blvd was extremely tacky" |
10 |
London | Jul 05 '06 | Day 9: London
"the air pollution hung low making everything seem smoggy" |
11 |
London | Jul 06 '06 | Day 10: London
"There was a major sale on which unfortunately still didn’t mean that our Aussie dollar went anywhere." |
12 |
Hammamet | Jul 07 '06 | Day 11: Tunisia
"The overtaking lane is in the middle of the road, waving your arms apart to tell the other cars to move over ..." |
13 |
Hammamet | Jul 08 '06 | Day 12: Hammamet
"cruising along the Mediterranean in a Pirate Ship!" |
14 |
Hammamet | Jul 09 '06 | Day 13: Hammamet
"which oddly enough is a ‘hole in the wall’ next to a literal ‘hole’ in the wall" |
15 |
Hammamet | Jul 10 '06 | Day 14: Hammamet
"no no no, this make us bankrupt, I see our price make you bankrupt…" |
16 |
Hammamet | Jul 11 '06 | Day 15: Hammamet
"They do very good Gelati in many different gourmet flavors" |
17 |
El Jem | Jul 12 '06 | Day 16: El Jem
"It was surprising that something this old (1800 years) was not only still standing, but you can wander through it" |
18 |
Hammamet | Jul 13 '06 | Day 17: Hammamet
"It took at least 20 minutes per party to get through Customs." |
19 |
Palermo | Jul 14 '06 | Day 18: Palermo
"there were literally hundreds and hundreds of skeletons all dressed in their clothes" |
20 |
Taormina | Jul 15 '06 | Day 19: Taormina
"a jewel in the middle of Sicily" |
21 |
Amantea | Jul 16 '06 | Day 20: Amantea
"an ancient Theatre built B.C. that is still used today, with views of the ocean and Mt Etna" |
22 |
Pompeii | Jul 17 '06 | Day 21: Pompeii
"The Fiat got a fair ding in a car park way back so we sculked into Avis in the dark and waited until the guy happily did our paperwork" |
23 |
Rome | Jul 18 '06 | Day 22: Rome |
24 |
Rome | Jul 19 '06 | Day 23: Rome
"We were fortunate enough to witness a minor miracle on a bench in the Vatican.." |
25 |
Pisa | Jul 20 '06 | Day 24: Pisa
"sat at a café in a cobblestone lane and had Pisa pizza under the Tower of Pisa" |
26 |
Venice | Jul 21 '06 | Day 25: Venice
"Chioggi was a beautiful little town, the old section was charming" |
27 |
Venice | Jul 22 '06 | Day 26: Venice
"We had dinner overlooking the Grand Canal which was beautiful and was very romantic with the three of us" |
28 |
Verona | Jul 23 '06 | Day 27: Gardaland Theme Park
"This is definitely the way theme parks are supposed to be!!" |
29 |
Binasco | Jul 24 '06 | Day 28: Binasco
"women who are so brown they look crunchy, totter along in sky-high espadrilles" |
30 |
Monaco | Jul 25 '06 | Day 29: Monaco
"Monaco is a big country/city sprawling across a cliff face with tiny roads winding down to the main centre" |
31 |
Nice | Jul 26 '06 | Day 30: Nice
"the French make far better pizza than the Italian" |
32 |
Marseille | Jul 27 '06 | Day 31: Marseille
"looking over the French Riviera the Mediterranean and the city of Toulon" |
33 |
Avignon | Jul 28 '06 | Day 32: Avignon
"Such luck as we haven’t yet had to sleep in the Peugeot but this was close!!" |
34 |
Carcassonne | Jul 29 '06 | Day 33: Carcassonne
"Kimmy white knuckled and co-piloting with her knees and the laptop GPS" |
35 |
Barcelona | Jul 30 '06 | Day 34: Chateau de Pegrepertuse
"Au Revoir France" |
36 |
Barcelona | Jul 31 '06 | Day 35: Barcelona
"The dog population made its mark on pavements and this was awful!!" |
37 |
Salou | Aug 01 '06 | Day 36: Port Aventura
"The Park is laid out in themes. China, Mexico, Frontier Land, Polynesia and each were beautifully presented" |
38 |
Logrono | Aug 02 '06 | Day 37: Logrono
"Will suggested that the Spanish landscape is so boring that the Spainish went to great lengths over history to leave and explore and conquer other countries" |
39 |
Leon | Aug 03 '06 | Day 38: Leon
"The spires went forever and let in natural light. Billy figured out the walls were about seven stories high." |
40 |
Ferrol del Caudillo | Aug 04 '06 | Day 39: Ferrol
"A Ferrol festival on Friday the 4th….this has got to be a good omen." |
41 |
Oviedo | Aug 05 '06 | Day 40: Oviedo
"The guests arrived dressed like Logie night and did they look wonderful!" |
42 |
Bilboa | Aug 06 '06 | Day 41: Bilboa
"other side of the hotel opens out to the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum" |
43 |
Bilboa | Aug 07 '06 | Day 42: Guggenheim Museum
"installations you can walk through, rise above your head, and all really modern" |
44 |
Pau | Aug 08 '06 | Day 43: Pau
"The actual crib of Henry IV was a turtle shell" |
45 |
Toulouse | Aug 09 '06 | Day 44: Toulouse
"He is also learning the sliding scale of his age depending on the entry age for exhibits" |
46 |
Toulouse | Aug 10 '06 | Day 45: Cite de L’Espace
"yes, we get pinged by a roadside gendarme speed gun doing 167km!" |
47 |
Lyon | Aug 11 '06 | Day 46: Lyon
"Show Time for Billy to schedule a ‘battle” with his sidekick Will" |
48 |
Vezelay | Aug 12 '06 | Day 47: Vezelay
"more rose to make the trip up the hill to yet another Cathedral much easier to swallow" |
49 |
Paris | Aug 13 '06 | Day 48: Paris
"it was a bomb scare!!" |
50 |
Paris | Aug 14 '06 | Day 49: Paris
"Today we had a” day off” in Paris" |
51 |
Plailly | Aug 15 '06 | Day 50: Parc Asterix
"“That would have hurt”" |
52 |
Rouen | Aug 16 '06 | Day 51: Rouen
"didn’t want to get frog-marched by the seat of her trousers" |
53 |
Arromanches | Aug 17 '06 | Day 52: Arromanches
"The Channel was a natural barrier with wild seas that would stop the British invading" |
54 |
Mont Saint Michel | Aug 18 '06 | Day 53: Mont Saint Michel
"You cannot help but be overwhelmed by Mont Saint Michel’s dominance and size as you head towards it!" |
55 |
Calais | Aug 19 '06 | Day 54: Berck |
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