The first year of my 5 years of Summer was 2014. Before that most of my travel was business related and I was usually in the company of a colleague. This was my first longer solo venture and it was frankly a bit unnerving.
I travelled to London and then visited a lot of Loire chateaux prior to joining an APT river Cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest. This was followed by a bus and train trip from Budapest to Prague. The next phase was to travel to Vienna, Dijon, Beaune, Lyon, Paris and then home to Canberra via London. I’ll deal with each part of the trip separately over the next few posts, but there are some overarching principles about single travel and I learned a lot from this trip. ( That’s a nice way of saying I made some really dumb mistakes.) Feel free to benefit from my stuff ups! And I’m still learning.