Yesterday was a bit of a travel day. We had to leave Sarajevo (sad sigh) and head towards the border for Montenegro as our destination for the night was the Ostrog Monestary up in the hills. This involved a 6 hour bus trip, which really is a little while to spend on a bus, and then a short private transfer to our accomodation for the night which as the monks dormitory. This was going to be most interesting as the dormitory really is part of the monestary and there are strict rules around what you can and can't do. Some of these rules involve the fact that boys and girls have separate rooms and never shall the two meet :) The weather for the last couple of days has just been miserable. It has been cold ... read more

We had to get up nice and early to catch the train to Belgrade. It was quite amusing as the very second that we had all hopped on the train the train moved out of the station. 20 minutes early. We were all a little surprised by the fact that the train was leaving ahead of schedule until Chris told us that this was in fact the 6:30am train that was in fact leaving an hour late, not the 7:30am train leaving early. Welcome to Serbia :) I think we were all a little dubious when we walked off the train into the Belgrade train station. It certainly wasn't the most salubrious train station in the world and it probably didn't help that the last thing that we saw on the train before we arrived was ... read more

Today we left Slovakia and took a train to Budapest. The train trip was quite a fun experience. We had to take 3 different trains and somehow we didn't manage to keep quiet through the entire journey. Susan, myself and our tour leader Chris ended up sharing a carraige for a lot of the time and there was a lot of giggling occuring throughout the 6 hour journey. When we got into Budapest Chris took us for a brief orientation tour of Budapest. This involved a walk through the streets to the State Opera House, St Stephen's Church, Roosevelt Square and the Chain Bridge, and then over the Chain bridge to Buda Castle. The State Opera House is very lovely from the outside and is apparently beautiful on the inside as well. St Stephen's Church was ... read more

Today was lovely. The weather was just beautiful, sooooo warm and sunny (well at least until it started raining :) Most of the group met up at 10:00am to go for a 4 hour guided bike tour of Krakow. This was one of the best bike tours that I have done in the longest time. It was amazing. We had a really great guide called John from Tampa, Florida but who has been living in Krakow for the last 11 years. John took us all over Krakow and showed us the history and the sights. We went through the main square, the castle, out to the old jewish ghetto but the best part of the tour was when John sat us all down outside of Schindlers factory and told us a 20 minute story about Oscar ... read more

Well our dinner the other night was interesting. But probably the most interesting thing that happened was the club that we went out to afterwards. This club was out in the suburbs somewhat and was decorated in the most amazing manner (check out the photos). However the bad thing about the club was the fact that my camera got stolen. Right out of my handbag. I even saw the guy doing it. However I was just a second or two too slow to stop it from happening. It was amazing, the guy literally just bolted. However luckily for me I had downloaded all of my photos for the day onto my laptop before we went to the club, so I really only lost a few photos of the club, which I have since replenished with photos ... read more