DanandSarah

We arrived in Vienna train station at 4:45 on Saturday afternoon and found our way just up the road to the hostel administration. We got our room keys and checked in and made our way to the building where we were actually staying, just one street away. We went to the supermarket to buy some groceries as we had a kitchen for the first time in ages. I tried to make Carbonara sauce but screwed up the sauce pretty badly which ended up as some sort of glue. Luckily we had bought a bottle of red sauce in case. We finished dinner, cleaned up and headed to bed as we were pretty tired from the once again, exhaustingly long travel day! Sunday morning, we woke up and did Skype with my family for an hour and ... read more

We arrived in Bucharest in Romania as part of our stopover on Thursday and then jumped on another plane to Paris. We arrived and immediately noticed that it was a lot colder than the first time that we visited Paris. We caught the metro that we were now quite familiar with all the way from the airport all the way to a small town called Torcy. The beauty of Torcy is there isn’t really much tourist stuff there so it was cheap. But it is only 3 stations from the Disneyland station. There was also a supermarket, a Laundromat and a whole street of restaurants. What more could you want! We made our way to our hotel and checked in. We also asked if our train passes had arrived as I had organised for them to ... read more

Çanakkale We arrived at Istanbul Airport at around midday and made our way through maze of shops until we found the stall that provided bus trips to Çanakkale. We paid around €20 each for tickets and caught the next bus at 2:30 to our destination. The trip was pretty long and far from enjoyable but when we arrived at nearly 8:30 that night, we were just relieved to be off the bus. We got our bags and headed into the town square and found our hotel very easily. We checked in and were immediately upgraded to the brand new hotel around the corner. This was great as we had a pretty shitty day and this was making it much better. We went to our new hotel and got settled before heading down the road for dinner ... read more

After a few hours in business class on our ferry from Naxos, we arrived at the port of Piraeus, the central harbour of Athens! We got off the ferry and found out way to the taxi rank to get to our hotel. After explaining where we wanted to go and having several drivers simply walk away, we had a man tell us we could walk there in 5 minutes. I think they must have walked off because they didn't want the crappy fare but no need to be rude about it! So with that we grabbed our bags and kicked my phones GPS into gear and set off up the street. About 25 minutes and 10 streets later we arrived at our hotel, Faros II. This hotel was great, and the staff were really friendly. We ... read more

We arrived in Santorini and immediately fell in love with it. The bleach white buildings with the sky blue domes are something that I thought only existed in postcards, and not something that I would ever see. We landed at the airport and upon arrival, realised that our transfer bus was not there and didn’t look like it was coming. Luckily, there was a man named Alex who knew about this and he took us and some other tourists in place of the transfer. €20 and half an hour later, we arrived at our hotel in Perissa Beach, on the south side of Santorini. Perissa is famous for its black beach which is unlike anything you have ever seen. We settled in to our hotel which was a vast improvement from Crete. Although all that was ... read more