Author: jmhheald
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Rate my Dunkin!
Jennie loves Dunkin’ Angus – 10/10: I like the Oreos Gideon – 10/10: I love the custard, the topping, the caramel chocolates, I love EVERYTHING about this! Jennie – 9/10: synthetic strawberries, just as I wanted, but I forgot to get a coffee for the full experience! I like that it’s how a child draws…
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Argh! Reservations.
It didn’t feel like good luck, when the alarm went off at 4am. We stayed last night in a hotel across the street from the station in Kolding, only because it’s the nearest place to Legoland in Billund with a station. An early night for all (7:30-8pm boys, 9pm for us) with a reasonably sensible…
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Świnoujście
We’re getting towards the end of our holiday, and that means we’re chilling out a bit. Świnoujście is on the Polish Baltic coast, in the North West. Getting there was entertaining… we travelled on the bargain 9-Euro-ticket, which had also covered our public transport in Berlin, and we could use for a whole month. It’s…
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Berlin
Two cities, oner after another, is tiring! I’ll also forever be confusing memories of Berlin and Vienna now. We stayed in Kreuzberg, a fairly big serviced apartment with the luxury of two actual bedrooms, not a sofa bed in the living room. It was a good lively area, with plenty of nice places to walk…
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Travel night: Vienna to Berlin
The sleeper edition! We had a good full day today, with the boys and Jennie having an epic trip to the Natural History Museum, while I went off to the Museum of Austrian History, which was fascinating, but would have been a nightmare with the kids! What’s engaging for me, isn’t necessarily for them… In…
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Rate my pastry: Vienna
Jennie: (Surprise) Rhubarb crumble cake Rhabarberkuchen – 8/10 could have had more rhubarb throughout the cake. She was told it was strawberry, but that’s a good surprise! Gideon: #GiantJammyDodger – 7/10 could have had more jam Angus: Giant Jammy Dodger – 10/0 liked the toppings and the loveheart jam bit in the middle and then…
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Travel day: Lake Bled to Vienna
We had a really friendly taxi driver taking us to Lesce-Bled station (I was overruled on making the boys walk 7km with their bags at the start of the day!) She is a scuba diver too, and was telling us about the problems with invasive species from peoples brought-in boats, which are now banned from…
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Fuelling strategy
We’re off to Vienna today… not too bad a journey, 08:13-13:36 with a 6 minute change. Better not to do it hungry though, so the local Bled Cream Cakes are a great way to start today!