http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Sean-and-Megan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Sean and Megan en-us Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:56:30 +0000 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:56:30 +0000 Friday 16th Friday 23rd January 2009Our arrival at Bad Gastein was welcomed after a fairly hectic day. My bags were absolutely back breakingly heavy and we hadnrsquot left ourselves much fat time wise. The train arrived at Westbahnhof in Vienna while Jane Phil and I were off buying lunch and other goodies and so poor Sean had to move four backpacks and four daypacks from one end of the platfo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Bad-Gastein/blog-374701.html Saturday 10th Thursday 15th January 2009Although I was excited about the Australian Summer waiting for us our last week in Vienna was a little sad. We said goodbye to Jamie for the last time on no less than four occasions and met Malachy for lunch and Emmanuelle and Hans Peter for dinner. Gathering our belongings and cleaning up the apartment Irsquod fallen in love with and teaching my last http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-367015.html Sunday 21st Friday 9th January 2008We'd planned to spend Christmas in England with Alex and so arrived on her doorstep late on the 21st after a mammoth journey from Vienna via Bratislava which involved three buses two trains a plane and worst of all the loss of two bottles of Chrissie booze. Fortunately we arrived to good old English teacakes cups of tea and a festive warm lounge room http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/blog-367006.html Friday 5th Tuesday 8th December 2008Our motto for this trip has been lsquoWhen in Romersquo so our journey really wouldnrsquot feel complete without a visit to this ancient historical city. With our travels rapidly coming to an end we squeezed in a quick long weekend between visits to Northern Ireland and England.The scene was set with an overnight train journey from Vienna to Rome. We http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-355092.html Wednesday 19th Saturday 29th November 2008Just as a foreword this is a 2nd draft as my first contained too much info on expenses. Megan pointed out to me that it is a travel blog not a column in the economics section. So I have reworded it all as best as I could. And I also want to point out now that Terravision is the worst bus company in the world. Pass the word.Earlier in the year we ac http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/blog-350318.html Saturday 1st Tuesday 4th November 2008Seanrsquos Ma whorsquod been in the UK since August organised a trip to visit Jamie and Sean in Vienna but flew in and out of Prague. Of course we couldnrsquot pass up the opportunity to check out the famous city so went up to meet her for a four day minibreak. We are a little behind with the blog so here is a wee account Irsquom just back fro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-349973.html October and November 2008Well wersquove been flat out lately with travel job searching and English teaching so this will be a quick account Irsquoll try of our time in Vienna in October and November. Note that we also went to Budapest in October blog published 25 days ago and in November we went to Prague and Ireland blogs to follow soon we promise.Firstly we moved into our own apa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-339924.html Friday 17th Monday 20th October 2008PestBuda Being the amalgamation of the city of Pest and Budain in the 19th Century it could have easily been named that but I agree it sounds better the other way round too. So Hungary has a very impressive history and itrsquos easy to see the proud history with the large bronze statue at the corner of every street. In fact they had so many statues they http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Central-Hungary/Budapest/blog-339910.html September 2008September was a fairly quiet month for us with no travel plans we were able to slow down and enjoy the end of Summer in Vienna. Without a doubt the biggest surprise was the severe change in weather. We went from wearing singlets shorts and sandals to scarves jackets and even gloves within a couple of short days. Wersquove since been told that Vienna seems to skip Spring and Aut http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-334523.html Saturday 23 Wednesday 27 August 2008We both had a tops night sleep in the lsquoRomantikarsquo something about ships perhaps.... and because we had forgotten to set our watches to the new time zone only woke up when an announcement was made saying we were an hour from Tallinn. The port we arrived at was very well set up and clearly catered for large numbers of tourists arriving by passeng http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-322289.html Wednesday 14 August Friday 22 August 2008The temptation of a cheap flight is hard to resist. So off we flew to Amsterdam to commence the two week bus train and hostel return journey to Vienna. As we had only returned from our two week camping holiday four days earlier we needed to push ourselves a little to get motivated for this next journey. Amsterdam The NetherlandsGreeted by another effi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-322276.html Sunday 27 July Friday 8 August 2008After eight days on the road we crossed over the border and found ourselves in Northern Italy near Lake Como. A couple of things stood out straight away. Firstly the traffic was terrible. The lsquomainrsquo roads as marked on our maps were narrow potholed unmarked and backed up with all sorts of traffic. In all we saw three fairly serious accidents dur http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-317604.html Sunday 27 July Friday 8 August 2008As most of you already know the biggest thing to happen on this leg of the journey was our engagement. The majestic Swiss Alps and picturesque lakes of Interlaken were the perfect setting and are our favourite places so far. But more of that later....Wersquod hit the road by midday in our red rental Hyundai that was jam packed with camping odds and ends. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/South-West/Interlaken/blog-317491.html Friday 11 Sunday 27 July 2008 We were both looking forward to Vienna because with no onward travel plans we knew wersquod have time to slow down. Thoughts of leaving our backpacks in the one place they are soooo heavy and eating home cooked food were very appealing at this point.After a speedy taxi ride from Athens to the airport we flew into Bratislava Slovakia and caught a bus from the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-310498.html Tuesday 8 Friday 11 June 2008Wersquore over a month behind with the blogs our trip is just flying so Irsquom making the next couple pretty short to try and catch up. So herersquos a run down of the things I remember most about our two days in AthensHeat. It was hot damn hot. The temp was high thirties but unlike the Islands there was no breeze to cool us down. Also since we only had http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-304245.html Friday 27 June Tuesday 8 July 2008We booked our Greek Island hopping through ATB Holidays a group Sean found on the internet and picked out the Poseidon Package. It included an overnight ferry from Athens to Crete 3 nights in Crete 3 nights in Santorini 2 nights in Paros and 2 nights in Mykonos. All of our hotel and ferry bookings and shuttles between ports and hotels were taken care of and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-301139.html Monday 23 Friday 27 June 2008Megan has been writing all the blogs thus far and Irsquom pretty sure she will continue with all of them as well. In fact even though Irsquove taken the interest to write a bit on Paris it will probably require significant editing from her to get it readable. Righto the first thing to mention was the warmth. After coming from the cool cool temperature of N. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-295943.html Thursday 5 Monday 23 June 2008We exited the ferry terminal and were greeted enthusiastically by Seanrsquos nieces threebutnearlyfour year old Cara and two year old Emer who informed me that she was wearing new sandals. We had arrived specifically on the 5th because Seanrsquos big sis Catriona was able to pick us up and also because Catriona and Canice had booked us all a weekend away http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/blog-294318.html Sunday 1 Thursday 5 June 2008The main reason for our visit to Edinburgh was to catch up with Marty and Dan and one of Seanrsquos school buddies Johnny. It was still a little too soon for Marty and Dan to be asking for days off from work so we caught up with them every evening. After nearly five months it was great to see them. They took us to their local a couple of times love those chill http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-289246.html Monday 26 May Sunday 2 June 2008After a month in the US of A it was absolutely divine to spend a week in England at Alexrsquos place where everything felt totally normal I even had vegemite on toast for breakfast. We had a pretty relaxing week mainly spending time with Seanrsquos sister Alex and her family Andrew Niamh and Carrig. I think I will definitely appreciate the Australian w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/blog-289239.html