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Hostel lika was great. We arrived with no booking and there was no 3 person room available and no 3 beds available in any of the dorm rooms. So instead we where offered two double rooms, M and R grabbed one of them and the guy who ran the hostel gave me a discount of more than 50% on my own double room which meant I was paying only just above the price of a hostel bed! The hostel was run by a really lovely couple who cook BBQ each night for the guests and have their little son running around playing! We got on really well with them and each night the guy would sit and drink with us (free Croatian brandy!) and even offered to let us come back and stay for free while ... read more

Having been told Vienna was an expensive place to visit we were surprised to find an apartment available for our two night stay for only £15 each per night. It included a nice bathroom, kitchen area with hob, microwave, toaster, fridge and kettle and even had a flat screen tv which we used to watch the World Cup games. We had arrived too early to check in so spent a couple of hours at a local bar drinking corona before settling in. All the travelling had started to take its toll and we took the opportunity to sleep for a few hours before going out in the evening. We walked down the side of a river until we reached the centre and thought the cathedral at night was beautiful. McDonald's was one of the few places ... read more

Ok, so picking up where I left off, Malmo was nice though it took us a while to find a spot to camp and our spot didn't compare to any of our previous beautiful locations. It was about 30-40mins walk to get back to the station in the morning, so we really felt the packs on our backs! The train strike in Sweden was still going on (naturally it finished the day after we did the route!) so it was a bus over to Copenhagen then a train to hamburg (of course this train had to stop and get extremely overcrowded due to another train breaking down and us taking on its passengers) and finally onto the train to berlin. Due to the delays on the trains we arrived in the middle of the night and ... read more

So we arrived finally in Gothenburg and jumped straight onto a tram out of the city towards an area we had seen on google maps that looked like a good countryside type spot (topelsgaten tram 5). It only took about 15 minutes and we found ourselves in the middle of a residential area with not much idea where to go! After a slightly worried walk into what we assumed where the woods nearby we stumbled upon quite possibly the best Imaginable camping spot. (After scaring ourselves that we had seen a bear which turned out to be a large overturned tree and it's roots!) We set up next to an amazing lake (with water clean enough to drink) surrounded by forests, which I can only describe as something out of a film. We didn't think we ... read more

Ok, so having been dropped at Victoria Station I began my journey through Europe, starting with a coach from London to Amsterdam. Though I almost didn't, noticing only at the last moment that everyone else seemed to have proper tickets rather than a printed confirmation and I actually needed to check in for the coach! I'll put that one down to nerves! I spent the journey in fractured sleep, (not enjoying having to disembark the coach on the ferry, from what I'd convinced myself was a comfortable position to sleep in despite being face first on the chair in front!) and speaking with Peter from Birmingham, who had kindly pointed out my earlier mistake! Overall not a bad journey and well worth the £14 and saved plane costs. (Departed 9.30pm, arrived 9.00am). I spent the day ... read more