Vero and Thomas' Travels
(2024-February)
Hello and welcome!
This website is our on-going attempt at preserving and sharing our trips, all the wonderful impressions, the memorable moments and the odd opinionated observation, with friends, relatives or indeed anyone who is interested.
With Covid at last behind us, we have resumed our long distance travels and 2023 has been a busy year. We started in March 2023 with a two months trip nicknamed SevenUp23 to the seven north eastern states of India (a.k.a the Seven Sisters: Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh). 
India is a well-known destination for us but this part of the country is very different to the "mainland" and what we had experienced so far. We managed to tour six of the seven states: distances are great and transport very time consuming and tiring, so we skipped the state of Mizoram; it was too remote and we simply didn't have enough time. Meeting the locals and some amazing landscapes were the absolute highlights. We are still busy processing all the photos and memories but have already a few pages to share.
September 2023 saw us in Belgium where we spent two weeks in Flanders visiting among others the cities of Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp with their canals, medieval city centres, busy sea-ports and wonderful museums where we got our fill of Flemish Primitives, learning a lot about the history of the country on the way. Have a look at our Belgian pages.
And since our Indian visas were valid for one year, we decided to use them for a second two-months stint in India in December 2023 and January 2024. This trip nicknamed GapFiller23 saw us making a big loop from Delhi to Mumbai to visit some places which we had not seen on previous trips, either because we didn't have the time or because they simply did not fit into our itineraries. We covered a lot of ground making good use of Indian Rail and had a real good time. We have already a few pages, more to come.
And of course, in-between travels, we always manage to spend some time in France or further explore the UK; see our pages dedicated to France and the United Kingdom.
For each trip, we have blogs, emails written on the road and sections with photographs and further background information about the countries and regions we're currently visiting or have seen.
The map on the right gives you a rough idea of our long distance travels, and yes, there is a pattern: we do like Asia! You can view the map below and individual maps of most our long distance trips in detail on the Travellers Point Website.
We have also created a new section called Mixed Bag where you'll find things we like or find interesting and want to share but which do not fit into any of the other sections of TRVL2.
A few general questions you might have are perchance answered on the FAQs page. There is also a page with links to some interesting sites which we ourselves visit every now and then. Last but not least, if you want to get in touch, see the Contact page. We read all mails we receive (though not necessarily in a very speedily manner) and we appreciate any kind of feedback; however, we're especially keen to hear from you if you spot an error or an omission or if you have a suggestion.
A few notable things: every page has Path and Tags information at the very top. The Path link brings up a map of the section you're currently browsing; it is followed by the trail of pages that led to the current page. The Tags link opens a page with all defined tags, whereas the tag links themselves show an index page for that tag. Below these links is the main menu: its top level should work with all browsers but the submenus do require Javascript to be enabled in your browser.
Our multimedia stuff (ie slideshows, photo galleries, videos and podcasts) as well as the dropdown menus use HTML5 and Javascript. If you don't see what you think you should see please check whether you have a modern browser and make sure Javascript is enabled in your browser. If you have security concerns re Javascript, our use of Javascript is safe… but of course that's also what the baddies will tell you:-).
Also, we recommend using a decent web browser like Mozilla Firefox or Vivaldi for best viewing and do take our advice: keep off Microsoft Edge.
Have fun!
$updated from: Welcome.htxt Mon 04 Mar 2024 16:04:49 trvl2 (By Vero and Thomas Lauer)$