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Exploring Europe by train

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Found an hour to watch this - completely brilliant, as usual. Looking forward to the second half. Maybe your last one for a while?
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
No.
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In the space of just over a week, I have walked over two William Tierney Clark bridges: the first over the Danube in Budapest and the second over the Avon in Bath.
October 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
True. But the image of Akershus Castle on the frontispiece was virtually unchanged from the picture I took nearly 90 years later.
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I loved my short time in Osijek, I thought it was a great place. Although it was sobering to think of the events of just 30 years ago there.
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thanks for clarifying. My experience, having never been to Japan, was observing a group of Japanese trying to order pizzas without cheese in a Milan pizzeria.
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I thought the majority of Japanese people are lactose intolerant, so can't eat cheese.
October 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Milan-Paris Freciarossa is indeed a delight - it was was four minutes early when I caught it earlier this year. However, I think you are being unfair to Ryanair, they actually have a similar punctuality record to the Frecciarossa.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Nearly home now. This was my somewhat convoluted route.
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sadly, I'm now on my way home.
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You can visit the former ÁVH (secret police) headquarters in Budapest. I remembered that Misha Glenny, who, like me, is wary of Fidesz's rewriting of Hungarian hisotry, did so in his BBC radio series The Invention of Hungary. Apart from the usual claims about lost Hungarian territory, it was good.
October 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Paid a visit this morning to the Museum of Fine Arts, primarily because they have a special exhibition of William Blake prints. I'm a fan of Blake as an artist and a poet. Given most of the exhibits came from The Tate, why didn't I see it in the UK. Well for one I had the whole exhibition to myself.
October 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Thank you. There is so much to learn about Europe. I am doing my best to understand, and counteract the worst forms of nationalism.
October 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You seem to be far more knowledgeable than I am on many things. May I ask what country you are from?
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The price of a mundane semi in many parts of London. (My understanding though is that buying property in Belgium has even more bureaucratic hurdles than in the UK.)
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
From one great station to another. My train from Pécs has brought me to Budapest Keleti.
October 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM