Munich We arrived in Munich early, after a not so good sleep we were disappointed to find out that Munich had and still has no showers (Tony not having washed for 48 hours was in need of one greatly!!!!). So we did what all self respecting backpacker would do and got out the wet ones!!!!! Feeling like tramps brushing our teeth next to people having number 2s we soon emerged slightly cleaner and less smelly ready to sample some of the Bavarian sights and beer halls!!! It didn't take us too long to have a look around, Munich is quite a [View Full Entry]

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Today was the start of our very long (24 hours) journey back up North to Munich in Germany. We started at 6am in Sarajavo and a 12 hour train journey to Budapest with no food apart from 2 bags of crisps, 5 mini twixs and a bottle of water oh and G with a slight touch of the runs!!!! Not good. As it happens the journey to Budapest went rather quickly and once we got into Hungary a restaurant cart got attached to the train, but with only enough money on us to buy one small sandwich we once again went [View Full Entry]

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Mostar After a 6 hour bus journey going through many boarder controls we finally made it into Bosnia. Once in Bosnia we had a rest stop but weren't allowed to go to the loo becasue some old woman wanted paying before letting us in, considering we had just come from montenegro which uses euros and coratia which uses kuna we couldnt quite understand how she expected us to pay her!!! she wouldnt accept kuna so we boarded the bus with our leg crossed and hoped the ride wasnt too bumpy for the rest of the way. After 8 hours going across [View Full Entry]

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Today we caught a bus to our next stop Montenegro, we werent originally going to come here but have heard such good reports we wanted to see for ourselves. We caught a bus to the town of Kotor. Montenegro is a relatively new country as it used to belong to Serbia. Its just as beautiful as Croatia in some places even more. The coast line changes slightly to mountains diving straight into the tourquiose blue waters of the Adriatic. Kotor is an amazing bay and like many towns along this coast line has a typical old city wall and an amazing [View Full Entry]

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So with a heavy night after our long awaited big night out we get an early ferry to Dubrovnik, now this was a ferry so T was happy, the last two boats have been cateramans where you cant go outside but this ferry outside was the only place you could go, we dumped our stuff in a corner, tying it on so it doesnt fall in the sea and chill for the next 5 hours taking in the southern dalmati coast line. Dubrovnik is a beautiful town once described by Lord Byron as the jewel of the Adriatic. it was totally [View Full Entry]

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Hvar We leave Split on our first boat of the trip and head to the island of Hvar. The Croatian island have the look and feel of Italy's Amafi coast and the greek islands but more bite than them, we love Croatia. Hvar is the sunniest place in europe (apparently) receiving 2724 hours of sunshine each year. Hvar town is gorgeous, its built within 13th cenetury walls of medieval Hvar. It marble paved, like split and most old towns in Croatia and very slippy. We were going to camp but we went the wrong way and got fed up of looking [View Full Entry]

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We catch another bus from Zagreb to Spilt on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It all starts to go wrong at the coach station, Tony buys two tickets to Split for 200kn each and mistake a 200kn note for a 100kn and effectively hand over an extra 25 quid! we then board the the "Willy Fog" bus and we stop everywhere the journey is supposed to take 6 hours the lying lady at the Zagreb bus station informs me but it actually takes 8 and half hours! We had booked an apartment just on the boundary of the old city [View Full Entry]

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Interesting Fact: (well not a fact but a quote published in Korcula Island) "Travel maintains an appetite for adventure. The eyes of travellers blaze with sparks, while the eyes of those who have not travelled beyond their horizons do not experience this" annoymous. Well what a pleasant surpirse Zagreb comes as. We have travelled about 17 hours on a medley of trains and buses and 48 hours after packing up our camping stuff in the rain in Switzerland, we arrive at a coffee shop at about 8am. We were smelly, tired from brat boy's antics and the temperature was rising exponentially, [View Full Entry]

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After a approximately a four and a half hour train journey from Lauterbrunnen to Zurich. Now every person we have spoken disregards Zurich as a drap, uninteresting financial district hence why we did a whistlestop tour of the place. We found Zurich to be contrary to this and a cool contiential cafe bar culture, a very relaxed atmosphere, with a lovely harbour. Zurich was our last and last port of call in Switzerland, again its a very very cool town, we've loved Switzerland but it has been an expensive stop on our trip, we only had a few hours here before [View Full Entry]

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Interesting fact: The Swiss invented LSD and Absinthe - not bad for a country of bankers and neutrality! Whilst aboard the TGV train from Dijon to Bern, we are confronted with the sound Click Ching Click Ching Click Ching, wondering what the bloody hell that was, we notice this chap sitting alone in his in his seat looking into his mobile phone camera striking a pose and taking a snap of himself Click Ching - not a normal camera sound i know but that was the noice it made, for 45 minutes this dude changed pose and Click Ching!!!!! We arrived [View Full Entry]

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