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We have just finished our 4 years in London in the Uk and we are back packing most of Europe for the next month, this is a day to day account of what we have been doing and where we have been including pic, vids and anything else we find interesting. Hope you enjoyGail ricky
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July 30th 2009
Today we were going on a rather long train trip... well only 2 and half hours each way but long enough for now. We decided seen as we were so close we should do a day trip to Budapest in Hungary... best decision we ever made as if Saturday was anything to go by Bratislava would have been a nightmare to stay at on a Sunday. So we managed to catch our delayed train (it seems the train in the morning is always delayed, think the driver stops for breakfast or something!) the train was rather fast and very scenic as there are lakes etc all the way. We arrived a Budapest at about 12 ish in the afternoon and first thing was find out what time our train was going back, we had 6 hours ... read more
July 27th 2009
Today Gail woke up at about 8 am and had to rush to the Tesco and get our staxs of food for our 37 hour train to Athens in Greece. After making staxs of sandwiches for our train and getting packed we rushed to the station to find out that yes, today’s train was also delayed.... but only by 20 minutes. So after our long wait we got onto the train, this was going to be a deathly! (Not literally dying but close enough) After travelling all the way through to Serbia and making it to the border after 7 long hours on a train, we find out at the passport control will not you travel through the country unless you have a transit visa! So we got told that we have to take our ... read more
July 25th 2009
Today we woke up rather late considering the times we had been up in the post couple days... got done and showered etc and left the hostel to go to the station to find out if we could upgrade our train to Athens in a few days... unfortunately for us they only have 2nd class on the train So after some back on forth we decided to go back to the hostel, chill a little and then go and see the sights that are Bratislava. Thank goodness I can say that the city is not the same everywhere and the old town as they call it is a pretty area with loads of restaurants and loads of cafes shops etc. We had a browse around the town and took some pictures of the must see ... read more
July 24th 2009
Today was going to be long and hectic and so we got up and got checked out as fast as our tired little bodies would allow. We meet Thomas and headed straight for the most popular must see in Vienna, the Stephenplatz... this is Vienna’s cathedral in the middle of the city. It is rather amazing not as big as the one in Germany but rather pretty inside we got that one done with pretty quick as the tourist of there in the millions and it is kind of hard to spend all day walking around a church when you have to be silent! We then moved on to see some of the most amazingly huge buildings we have seen in our whole trip... he buildings in Vienna are old, large and so pretty. Unfortunately ... read more
July 23rd 2009
Well today has been a day that will go down in our minds for eternity! It was the hottest day ever in the record of Austrian history at 37.9 degrees. This is all relevant because we caught a train today from Prague to Vienna for 6 hours... the car we were on had no windows that could open! Now I cannot convey how bad that was... we were wet with sweat from head to toe within about 5 minutes max of being on the train. We eventually moved to a car with windows half way through our journey... thank god for Rickys quick legs as well because he bought us ice cream and cold drinks at a 4 minute stop. Well we thought it was going to be 4 minutes it turned out to be an ... read more
July 22nd 2009
Today we had a lovely time and we got to meet up with some of Ricky’s friends from the Cruise ships , Renata and Martin with their little boy Phillip ( I hope its spelt right) - thanks for driving all the way it was wicked! We meet at about 10:30 after we managed to get lost 3 times trying to find the most famous bridge in Prague! Yes only us! Hahah anyway eventually we got there and meet up We then went up to the old castle and walked around the streets on the way up to the castle as well. They are very steep and small cobbled streets, it truly is quiet stunning. The castle was tourist packed but we took some pics for you all and also we took some pics of ... read more
July 20th 2009
Well we woke up today in the train at 6am to get off the train as it arrived for its stop in Prague at 6h58 and thank goodness for that as the trains stops literally just long enough for you to get off. Prague at 7 in the morning, hard to navigate as you cannot even decipher one word in Czech and really was interesting. Eventually we figured out how to buy Metro tickets and get to the stop we were suppose to then we had to buy tram tickets and figured that out... hahah it was funny not so fun when you caring a backpack. Anyway we made it to the hotel only to find out we could only check in at 3pm in the afternoon!!! Ahhh what? They did some juggling and let us ... read more
July 19th 2009
Today we got to see what made Warsaw Poland amazing... it was a very very nice place and although the town looks a little suspect the touristy part is really nice and pretty. We got up and had a breakfast, I would have to say one of the worst we have had so far... nothing to write home about yet. Anyway after breakfast we did our check out stored our luggage and hit the streets. We went to see the old town in Poland, with its little cobble stone streets, it really is romantic and pretty, we took loads of pictures and walked around to see all the things that they call special. We then had a little sit and chat while we watched the little mossies bathing in the fountain. Definitely a highlight and the ... read more
July 19th 2009
Today was a Sunday... we knew this because at 9 in the morning when we were out and about everything was still closed.... We decided that we would at least get to see some of Berlin and so we took a boat cruise on the canal, it was actually really nice the sun was out and we had and English translation machine, so inst3ead of imagining what they were saying we could actually know it was wicked! Definitely think Berlin is on the list for a return holiday one day. We then rushed from our boat cruise bought a souvenir or two and went to the main station Berlin to make our train to Poland. What and amazing station, wow it is huge and spectacularly four levels that have platforms on each and cross, it ... read more
July 18th 2009
Today was a very very long day, we had to catch a 6 hour train to Berlin and we were horribly hung over and had 2 max 3 hours sleep. Our train journey was a complete disaster, we had noisy kids on the train and topped with trying to sleep and a conductor announcing stops in four languages we didn’t get much sleep. On arrival in Berlin we had pretty strict instructions about how to find our hostel , thank goodness for that cause we were acting like drunken idiots and so found our trains and things rather quickly. The hostel made us wait for check in and that was the last thing we wanted, all we wanted to do was sleep needless to say we got into our room and crashed out watching chuck ... read more
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