Last year it was South East Asia, the year before it was North America, this year it was Europe. So this is the do's and don'ts of the high tech travellers guide.
The main purpose of the trip was to visit relatives in Oxford and travel to a wedding in Rome, by train. Along the way there was a transport strike in Paris, an un-scheduled detour through Germany, a snow storm in the Black Forest, a French rail strike, an audience with the Pope and an anti-fascist street protest.