Blogs from Europe - page 11316

Let me just say this...Alghero was gorgeous...but this was probably the worst vacation we've ever had. Not because of anything in the town itself (except maybe our icky apartment) but it was just a bad vacation. We went with another couple, Mike and Maria. Mike works with Matt and Maria and I have gotten to be pretty good friends since we moved here. We planned this trip pretty last minute and, after we booked our flight, we discovered that this weekend was the height of high season in Italy because it was a public holiday. It's like trying to find a last-minute hotel in Daytona on Memorial Day weekend. So, we pretty much took whatever we could find that we could afford and I found an apartment that slept 4 right in town in Alghero. They ... read more

Our train trip to Vienna took us through the Czech countryside and another set of passport stamps before we arrived at a more German looking railway station in Vienna. Strangely Vienna seems has main stations, on different sides of the city, and our accommodation was near a different station to the one we arrived at. This meant we needed to go for a short ride on a tram. Interestingly, like we experienced in Belgium, this tram spent some time going underground through the central city area. The next morning we first collected our Grand Prix tickets for Monza (the people we ordered them from were based in Vienna) then we took the advice of the Lonely Planet and took the #1 tram which goes in a ring around the main town centre. (Kind of like our ... read more

I've just discovered this thing is counting down our remaining days but I'm sure it's lost some somewhere - it cannot be only 20 days. Apart from organising the trip, it currently feels like we're changing jobs, doing up the house (decorator & plumber in today) and moving house as well and the list of things to do gets longer rather than shorter. But this is another one ticked off the list - the first blog entry - just to see if it works. Next I have to work out how to put photos on....might need Hugh for that. We will try to make this witty & interesting rather than just a deadly list of everywhere we've been but, if we fail, at least you'll all know we're still alive! Do send us messages - despite ... read more

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So today is my last day of work, leaving me 2 weeks to get all the final preperations sorted. Hels still has another week left, so she has the joy of getting up every morning and leaving me to sleep in : ) Met up with Benji a couple of nights back, he should be arriving in Bangkok as we speak, plans are afoot to meet up when we arrive in Bangkok (he's off to Phi Phi for a couple of weeks), we'll have to see if we can pull that one off. Hels has hurt her foot some how, no doubt a combination of too much booze and bad shoes, so if you could all say a little prayer that it gets better before we leave we'd be really grateful : ) All the final ... read more