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It's our final day of travelling! Can't believe it! Our interails have run out so no more trains for us! Amsterdam has been a good giggle. Our hotel is so nice, it's called Hotel Artemis. It's quite far out of the main city ring though so we have to get a bus in each day. We are very hungover today of course so taking it easy until we fly home tomorrow afternoon. It will be so strange being back in England, we have seen so many amazing things on this trip! Looking forward to catching up with everyone though.... read more

We are quite tired today but Munich has still been very lovely. We´ve done a lot of cities so we steered clear of the shops today and headed to the riverside instead. We found a lush foresty park and chilled there for a while before noticing some people surfing on the one big wave the river created, it was so cool! We got some good photos of that. Still lacking in energy so propbably just going to chill tonight with Mel and her boyfriend before (hopefully) heading to Mainz tomorrow as we really want to find at un-city-like place to have a nice day out and the Rhine Valley near there looks perfect. Can´t believe we only have a week left, time has flown by!... read more

We went to a Salvador Dali exhibition today, we both remember his art from GCSE. It was really weird but we really enjoyed it. We also went up to the Royal Gardens which were beautiful but it's so hot we didn't last very long in the heat. We've been having such a giggle and taken lots of photos. It's been really useful having a kitchen in the last couple of places we've stayed in, managing to cook real food really cheaply (Rob's introduced me to eggy bread!) We also had an authentic czech meal out last night (thanks Robin and Alice!) We bought the funniest souvenier today - it's a 3D photograph of us lazered into a crystal cube, it's a great momento! Germany tomorrow.... read more

Vienna has been so good today! We met a really nice Australian girl and walked around a Palace and it's amazing gardens with her. There was a great maze with all kinds of fun parts to it like water sprays and morphing mirrors - we felt like big kids playing on it all. We tried the local cuisine - weiner schnitzel, was actually very yummy. The owner gave me free champage now which was great but unfortunately Rob was given a small glass of this really weird, strong alcohol that tasted like medicine. The man was really nice though and said it was from the heart. We explored the main big street of shops (I bought another book so have three for this trip now!). The shops were very different to the cobbled streets and horse ... read more

Milan is so amazing! The shops are fantastic, we spent hours looking around them! The buildings are amazing too. We had our first bit of rain but that's okay because it's still very hot. We thought we'd booked a dorm in a hostel but turns out it's another double with a balcony. It was very hot last night though and very loud outside with the traffic so with my cold I hardly slept. Managed to find a pharmacy today so have taken some tablets which have worked their magic. Absolutely loving exploring Milan, it's so swanky and exciting. Managed to get a very cheap underground ticket so been on and off them all day exploring different parts of Milan. After only having a few grapes for breakfast and bread sticks for lunch (in true backpackers styleeee) ... read more