Blogs from Europe - page 10056

Thursday 22 May 2008 It was a restless night on the bus from Korcula to Zagreb. frequently through the night we would hear the bus driver's panicked call "passport check! passport check!" Each time we quickly pulled out our passports only to be passed by so that the police could check the id of the non-tourists. It wasn't until afterwards that we realised why. Thanks to yet another dodgy Lonely Planet map, we didn't even know that we'd passed through Bosnia along the highway! We had changed countries and didn't even know! The driver also had stopped the bus late at night for a dinner, beer, coffee and football stop at a roadside eatery high on the cliffs overlooking the Adriatic coast. Michael joined the boys inside for Karlovacko and football while Barbara stretched her legs ... read more

Dear Friends and Relatives, I know I've been behind on writting my blogg which began on 22nd May to The Mediterranean but now I've got it together and hopefully while I'm in ALICANTE, Spain, YES, that's where we are at this very moment. More details to arrive very soon, with lots of lovely photo's from our trip's to alot of lovely places. So I hope you'll wait. If anyone is not interested in receiving my blogg and is still on my address list, just let me know and you will be deleted and you won't hear any more from Lars or I. Caroline... read more

We landed in Anthens coming from Cairo on 21 may 2008 and it's Chris's birthday! Aegean Air - Cairo to Athens Flight A3931, £198.73, 14:55 - 16:55 Accommodation at Zorbas, 2 nights, £50 We spent a day walking around the Acropolis looking at the Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus (amphitheater), Odeon of Herodes Atticus etc. Up on top of the hill overlooking the city of Athens is the Parthenon, which is amazing even though it was under construction. One of my favourite parts was the Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus where these beautifully carved women are holding the building up with their heads. Next to the Parthenon is the Sanctuary of Pandion which has similar columns but is smaller. The columns are so awesome and have slightly shifted in time, so that you can see that they were ... read more

We could sleep in this morning as our train to Genova doesn't leave until 11:44am. We had a leisurely (if not boring) breakfast and headed out into the rain to look for somewhere to buy lunch for the train ride. However, we didn't get far until we decided to get our bags down to the station and go looking from there. It's only 500m walk from our hotel to the station but not much fun in steady rain, holding an umbrella, trying (unsuccessfully) to keep our bags dry. Then Karina went and found some lunch and we waited for our train to arrive. Fantastic - a nice new, clean 6-seater cabin to ourselves. We stowed our bags and stretched out for what was a pretty comfortable 3 hour trip to Genova. In the end we had ... read more

Thursday 22nd May - Journal Notes are work in progress - some pics uploaded in the interim.... read more