nicole calder

Another early morning flight, but that enabled us to explore Venice for the day and night. Given that we didn’t have any time to get food during transit, our first stop on arrival was to grab some food and in the land of Italy, we settled for a margherita pizza. There are a few different ways you can get to Venice from Marco Polo airport – private water taxi (€40), Alilaguna water bus (€18), or an express bus (about €10). We settled on the water bus as we wanted to experience

Welcome to our fourth country, Norway! Admittedly this part of our trip didn’t make geographical sense when we were planning it, but we were working around the women’s champions league final which was on the 23rd of May in Oslo. So we decided to visit my very good friend from college, Ida, in Trondheim before venturing down to Oslo. When I stepped off the plane in Trondheim, it almost felt like arriving home. I’ve visited Ida and Trondheim once before, in December 2023 when

We flew from Zurich to Dubrovnik with Swiss Air in the afternoon (3pm departure) and a 2.5 hour flight. Flying within Europe is like flying within Australia – you don’t need to be there 3 hours before your flight, probably only 1.5 hours and could get away with an hour depending on the airport size and time of the day for travel. First stop when we arrived in Dubrovnik was picking up our car from Enterprise. I was so hesitant with booking cars in Europe because I had read s

Country #2 – Switzerland. Our first experience? The Obb Nightjet. As I mentioned at the end of the last blog, there was absolutely no information online about anything relating to check in or the experience itself. All we knew was that we booked and paid for a shared sleeper cabin (about $220 for both of us which included a ‘breakfast’). We arrived about 30mins before our scheduled departure where the train was waiting for us at Amsterdam Centraal Station – we got on the trai

Welcome to my European travel blog! I’ve been taking notes along this trip of every country and city we’ve visited – accumulating everything from where to eat, where to grab a great cup of coffee and how public transport works (plus anything else that might be worth noting). Prior to our trip, we had all our accommodation booked and paid for as well as all our flights (just not our flight home because of the situation in Iran…seems that in 3 months nothing has actually change