After yesterdays relaxing afternoon, myself and Nance decided to go out and try and catch some footy in a pub. Nance earlier spotted a different english bar we could go to. Adelle stayed behind as i think she was a bit under the weather. She's been sneezing a lot recently. We got to the bar in time for the start of the Liverpool v Stoke game but it was 5 quid a pint!! Ridiculous. So before long we abandoned the footy which i think Nance was happy about and went to a couple of other bars. Before long we were onto [View Full Entry]

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We managed to get to St Petersburg okay after a small hiccup. Since the last blog i went and bought some new jeans as i somehow lost some trousers in Poland (as you do). Have since tried them on and they don't fit so back down to just 3 pairs again. Anyway, we spent the day mulling around the station and shopping centre and decided at 6pm to check on our train which was set to leave at 8.10pm. Only then do we realise that we need to be at a different station. On the other side of Moscow. Nobody explained [View Full Entry]

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I'm putting these blogs together as i fear the next few days will be beyond dull. Day 16 - 16/09/08. Got up early in L'viv to get to the station as we hadn't sorted out any train times. Have definitely decided to get to St Petersburg as soon as possible so no choice but to get trains straight through now. Got to the station early but train out to Kiev is not until 8pm. No other news, we spent the day sitting here. We did sit in different seats from time to time and the toilets here are just a hole [View Full Entry]

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Hello!!! In L'viv now waiting for a train to Kiev. It's about midday here and train is not until 8pm. We left Krakow 2 days ago now. Missed the train we had booked on after a mix up involving me and Adelle getting a bit lost when we split up whilst Nance went and bought new luggage. At the time for some reason it was really demoralising. I felt worse than when we lost the car and when we couldn't find anywhere to stay in Slovakia. I think it was because this time it was in our control. Still, in the [View Full Entry]

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After the night on the streets in Slovakia we got our tickets to Krakow for midday and then went for a Mcdonalds at 7am. They don't do breakfasts over here so i had to have 2 x cheeseburgers and chips. Eating this so early in the morn + no sleep forced me to have a nap on a park bench for a bit. After accidently buying sparkling water 3 times at the station we finally left Kocise and Slovakia after our train got delayed for a bit. It was only by 10minutes but that seemed an age. I hardly slept on [View Full Entry]

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September the 10th by now. We awoke in Miskolc, had breakfast (scrambled egg - soon regretted that) then found out it wasnt free. We missed our train to Kocise in Slovakia by 30mins so had to wait until 3pm. No bother, i decided to send home my massive sleeping bag. So i went to the Hungarian post but they were useless and didnt bother to try and speak english for me. But then some Hungarian guy came up and explained the postoffice was rubbish, that id be lucky to find a box to send my bag in and then spent 20mins [View Full Entry]

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More than ready to move on after 2days in one place. We are supposed to be travelling and you cant do that if you stay still. Breakfast was a cold sausage casserole on the train, where we washed up the mess tins in the toilets. Then before long it was Budapest. The part we arrived in was literally a building site. And very hot again. Nonetheless, after an age trying to get some local currency we arrive at our hostel. Yes, a bed again. We then decided to wander back into the city to see what we could find. Couldnt work [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so its been a while, im now in Slovakia so ive got a lot of filling in to do. After the campsite in Zurich, we went back to the station, managed to get rid of our luggage for the day and stepped out in the Swiss sunshine to explore Zurich. Really we were just passing time until we could get our train to Vienna. But Zurich is fantastic. Its a really clean place with apparently Europes largest clock (although we think we found it and it wasn§t actually that big - someone could easily make bigger). The day before had [View Full Entry]

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Day 3 ends with us leaving Ciney (finally) and getting our first train of the trip. Really tired at this point as i didn't sleep the first night and the second night was spent in the car...on a main road. So all i remember looking back was it was a double decker train...my first one!!! I guess its like a normal train, but with another level. The journey to Luxembourg was short and pleasant and we decide to stay in a hostel (my first ever hostel) in Diekirch - part of the OLd Town of Luxembourg City. I think i was [View Full Entry]

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Last time i wrote we were set to head on to Brussels and then decided to drive on down to Luxembourg where we heard there are good campsites. I got to drive the car for the first time that morning. Later that day, after leaving Brussels - about 45 mins into our journey, the car started overheating. Problem is we were flying along the motorway and you can't really tell until the front of the car is engulfed in smoke. We stopped on the hard shoulder and let it cool for almost an hour, before deciding it was probably the waterpump [View Full Entry]

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