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Hi all, Another belated blog! I thought it would be..nice to catch up on the outstanding entries I've been meaning to do. I'd planned on doing it the past few days, but instead decided to have a Lord of the Rings marathon with my family in London instead. Having a day of doing very little after my big portion of the trip felt luxurious to the extreme. Nice was our next French destination after Toulouse. The drive into Nice on the bus was quite nice and the views along the busy highways were very pretty as we entered the outskirts of Nice. The ocean side towns were very pretty and akin to those in Amalfi and Positano. We arrived at the bus stop at Nice Airport. We were trying to find a way to get out ... read more

Hi again blog devotees! I realize that I am writing the blog entries out of order. The reason for this, is that depending on what I remember most vividly at the time in relation to having motivation to write the blogs means that more recent entries seem to come before older ones. A fickle thing is my memory. We came to Florence from Sorrento. Our accommodation was in an excellent location in relation to surrounding attractions of the city which was great. The room itself had a rather annoying flaw, the fan had an incredibly loud ticking noise that got louder as the fan speed increased. Considering it was bloody hot in the evening with no air conditioning, we decided that the fan and its incessant noise was the lesser evil. Whilst I could sleep due ... read more

Getting to Sorrento was a bit of a mission. The train we took stopped at Naples, so we had to get a local train from Naples to Sorrento. That train was very humid and quite full. And it took an hour and a half, a somewhat unpleasant ride some might say. Upon arriving in Sorrento, we caught a local bus to our campsite which was located up a hill and a few windy roads. Our cabin was also up a hill. There were the most lovely of views from our deck though of the rugged cliffs and coastline, peppered with terraced, colourful housing. It is probably the best view I've had yet from my accommodation site. That evening we did laundry and what Bex and I refer to as "Life Admin", or trip sorting. We went ... read more

Hi again followers of thy blog! I am writing this entry whilst at my cabin in Sorrento, Italy, in the background an incessant church bell is ringing. I've never heard so many church bells since being in Europe. Dubrovnik was a pearl of place to visit, The Pearl of the Adriatic as it has been famously quoted. Situated in the lovely Adriatic coastline, Dubrovnik is highly pleasing to feast thine eyes upon. After being landlocked for the past few weeks, seeing the coastline again reminded me of home. I am most happiest when near the ocean, so the immediacy of love towards Dubrovnik was thus only natural. Secondly, I love castles. The old town is essentially a fortified castle built into the hillside. The moment our airport shuttle rocked through the gate into the old town, ... read more

Hello hello, The last stop on my two week journey with my first travel companion ended here in the transcendent Budapest. It seemed to be such a fitting destination to wrap up this leg of my travels as it was also my favourite place to visit. I have loved every place I've visited of course, but something about this city captured my heart completely. We arrived in the late afternoon and proceeded to sign up to a hop on, hop off bus tour as we knew Budapest was rather large and we wouldn't be able to do the city justice in a day if we walked all of it. Interestingly, we ended up walking far and wide anyway. We went on a quick circuit of the city on the bus to do some reconnaissance before really ... read more