BiddyBlue

On the night train from Budapest to Buhcharest I met one of the most amazing people not just on this trip but possibly in my entire life. Andras, our transylvanian sweetheart! We weren't on the train long before he had pounded upon us with many many questions! We were sharing the sleeper carriage with him and this other hungarian lady who made and sold perfume for a living. He told us of his country's history and everything about his own life until now. He spent a long time telling us of how he was a hungarian at heart living in Romanian territory...His way of describing it to us was..."we are like you irish, and these romanians are like those English" ha ha,..an interesting comparison i must say but i didn't dare argue him on the subject! ... read more

We arrived in Bratislava late enough from Vienna. The train station was a lot smaller then the others we had been to. The only perceptions I had of the place, were the ever so dark and gloomy ones, I got from watching the film "Hostel"! In the film the director Tarrentino perceives the place to be a dangerous city in which the locals kill off any tourists one by one. Within a few hours though of being here we realised the city was far from anything like this. We stayed in the "Patio Hostel", fairly central and even though it was quite possibly the slowest check in I've ever bee through, I had no major complaints. OH WAIT except for being awoken on the last day by about twenty builders outside our window. They were hammering ... read more

We arrived in the train station in Krakow to get the over night train to Prague looking forward to a peacful nights sleep and train journey! We thought of the money we were saving on a night in a hostel also and so all was well..Who KNEW that the next ten hours on this train would be the best ten hours of our entire trip to date.... We found our sleeper carriage(which was EVEN smaller then the one from Berlin, if that's even possilble to imagine) and introduced ourselves to the other two already there..as soon as we got a hello from them, we knew that they were Irish...and on both sides there were smiles in abundance...The couple were from Belfast and were delighted to finally meet some other irish, as were we...From down the corrider ... read more

Well finally we made it to Warsaw...immediately I didn't feel al that welcomed...This was a feeling that stayed with me through out our stay here...Everywhere we went, I almost felt GUILTY about being there...At any of the Museums or Churches people would shout at us for the most random things and we were clueless as to what was going on hald the time...EXAMPLE----We got to the Royal Castle thingy and the sign on the door(which was all in English only) said that there would be tours between ten and one or something like that..When we got to eh 'Kasa' boot to buy the ticket this woman SHOUTED at us for asking could we buy two tickets for the tour..'NO TOUR' she replied..and that as that..no explanation, nothing to be honest...Fair enough I'd say something if it ... read more

I would never of thought I'd end up liking this place so much: everthing basically went smoothly on ou rfirst two days here. Our train came in on time, we found our hostel easily enough with no major complications! We're staying on the east side of Berlin. In a young and trendy part of town called "Prenzlauerberg". The hostel Lettem sleep i scheap enough and perfectly located. the food nearby is very cheap and fairly central with just the underground to Alexanderplatz to get. the city is young and alive and it most certainly shows. We happened upon the T.V tower and reached the top at 368 meters, at which we were blown away by the mesmerising views we were presented with!! From above is the best way to see Berlin, in the same way as ... read more