Blogs from Europe - page 11355

For the geography challenge (which would include my parents) prague is the farthest east we will go on our backpacking trip. Laura's backpacking on a shoestring book told us that the Czech train conductors will often try to intimidate tourist on the train by threatening there to be a problem with the passengers ticket. So we were a bit nervous when we crossed the border and this tall man sternly asked us for our passports. The train ended up being uneventful as we spent most of our time talking to an American couple who were there for a wedding in Cesky Krumlov. This turned out to be a good train cart to sit in because the womens motherly instincts kicked in and she fed our "starving" backpacking bellys trail mix. That afternoon we arrived at our ... read more

Arrive in Prague to an awesome hostel meet heaps of other travellers and have a BBQ and drinks and head to bed. Sheree arrives and head into centre of Prague wonder around and find prague square which is pretty cool. Take a river cruise for tea and take in more sights before retiring. Up early and head to Prague castle and take a look around. Found a cheap bar so had a few drinks and meet with Guesty, Jess and Veronika. Veronika takes us out for tea and then to some localr bars and clubs get home around 2 am. Next day surface a bit worse for wear and get train with Veronika and Sheree to Chesky Krumlov. Train very old and slow weather hot and all have headaches from night before!!! Finally arrive to a ... read more

Three nights in Nuremberg. Enjoy our stay with Andreas, who previously lived in Vancouver. ... read more

Friday, August 3rd- Inverness to Thurso: Well, at this point in the journal I stopped writing specifics and did summaries: Head to Thurso and stop at a big ass mansion along the way and watch a Falcon show. Rain. Arrive in Thurso- pouring rain and mom and I walk in it. Dinner sucked. Bubble bath for Burt. So, now I will attempt to go thru and remember what happened (two weeks later) The big ass mansion (I can turn a phrase, can’t I?) that I referred to above is Dunrobin Castle in Sutherland (East coast of Northern Scotland, about 90 minutes North of Inverness). Parts of the castle date back to 1275. Unfortunately it was raining quite a bit when we went to tour this one and that dampened everyone’s spirits and desire to explore. I ... read more

Well, after a good eight months in Latin America it was nice to be back on some what familiar ground. So for a few days we would check out the streets of London as well as catch up with my Aunt and Uncle who I haven't seen in a long time and it was great to introduce my new Wife who they seemed to warm to very quickly but maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. We arrived after a few hours flight from Madrid and touched down in London and unfortunately my Uncle was unable to put me up for that night so made our way to a Hotel somewhere in the centre of the city. After dropping of our bags and got accustomed to the best hotel room in a few years we nipped out ... read more