Travelling Tim

  • Lausanne to Lamoura

    Lausanne to Lamoura

    Tour de France – Stage 8 – 2017

    A couple of years ago I was fortunate to be in the same country as The Tour de France at the same time. We were in Belgium, staying a short train ride away from where the race would wind through a small town and up a decent hill. The plan then was to catch a train and walk up the hill.

    That day didn’t go exactly to plan, with the race being neutralised after a number of crashes.

    The plan this year was to rent a car from Lausanne and just pop over the border into France and see the race not too far from the end of the stage. That was about all the planning I did.

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  • Andorra

    Andorra

    This trip to Europe like the last ones started with a conversation with dad along the lines of:

    “Tim, I’m going to a conference in <European Country> in about 12 months, mum is going to come, would you like to go to Europe as well?”
    “Sure, can we also go to <small European country / principality / micro-state>?”

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  • 30 some hours in Seoul

    30 some hours in Seoul

    Part 2, the rest

    or about 16km of walking…

    16km of walking around Seoul

    The next day I had breakfast in the hotel and waited for Alex and his wife, Lyn, to meet me before we headed out for the day. I got a message saying they were going to be a bit late, so I should head out in the morning first and they’ll meet me a little later at the hotel, so I went for a wander.

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  • 30 some hours in Seoul

    30 some hours in Seoul

    Part 1, about 14 hours.

    I had an early start today, a very early start. I had to catch the first train out of Shinjuku going to the airport for my whirlwind trip to Seoul, Korea. To make getting around easier I arranged to leave my suitcase at the hotel in Tokyo, and just take a backpack with me.

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  • Kyoto Imperial Palace

    Kyoto Imperial Palace

    At our first day in Kyoto we went to the Imperial Palace only to find that we needed to book a tour at a specific time. As soon as this happened I of course remembered that this is exactly what happened last time I was here.

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