Prague

December 2016-January 2017

After two and a half days at work, we were on a plane again, to Prague to celebrate New Year 2017. We also had a few friends heading to Prague - Stacey and Blair, Steve, Ben and his girlfriend Laura.

London had been very foggy in the days bewteen Christmas and New Years, and our flight was delayed by an hour and a half. We spent the time in the Wetherspoons pub in Stansted, and ran into Steve there as he waited for his later flight.

We finally took off, and also had foggy arrival in Prague at 10pm. After checking into our hotel we went out for a late dinner and a walk. We found a bar at about 11:30 where I had beef tartar, Rach had potato soup, and we washed both down with some good Czech pilsner. The tartar is not something I've previously been a fan of - being raw beef mince on toast - but I enjoyed it. Potato soup was a Czech dish, and Rach enjoyed that too.  

Beef tartar

Krakow Christmas

December 2016 

As you may know, Christmas is my favourite time of the year. Hands-down. This love for Christmas trees, presents and all things tinsel-related has slowly and inevitably rubbed off on Mike. These past two years I've taken great delight in filling boxes with cards, small gifts and decorations and sending them with love back to NZ. Skype is a wonderful thing, but it's not the same as being home with family. I miss everyone dearly, all the time, but Christmas is an especially hard time of year.

Köln for Christmas (markets)

November 2016

We had originally planned to go to Munich to experience Christmas markets, beer and German food. Unfortunately, a Lufthansa pilots' strike meant that our flights were cancelled - the day before we were due to fly out. Luckily, after some frantic Googling and booking, we managed to get some affordable flights to Cologne - to experience Christmas markets, beer and German food. 



This was a short trip - we'd both run out of annual leave at work, so it was a Friday evening to Sunday evening trip. And Cologne (Köln in German) didn't disappoint.