Blogs from Europe - page 11722

So you find us in Germany, redecorating flats, packing up, moving out, getting lots of injections, buying kit, going out a lot and attempting to do our jobs for the last few weeks before we leave. It's all been a bit hectic! Occasionally in between we have time to plan our Africa trip and read some guidebooks. Getting quite excited about it now. We will both finish work at the end of June, then take a few days to drive our stuff back to the UK and clutter up our parents' lofts! Hopefully a chance to catch up with everyone and then we're off! Flight is booked for July 13th (yes Friday 13th no less) Heathrow to Dubai. Couple of days stopover and then on to Nairobi. Africa here we come! Since we'll be (hopefully) travelling ... read more

Today was our last day in Vienna. We started by taking the U2 to Karlsplatz, where we transferred to the U4 to Hietzing, which lies on the outskirts of the Schonbrunn Palace area. After walking through the Hietzing Gate we came to the Palmhaus. The Palmhaus is the largest and last remaining palm house of its kind in Europe and houses flora from every continent. I became quite enamoured with a turtle inside who seemed to pose for the pictures I was taking of him. After the Palmhaus we strolled closer to the Schonbrunn Palace and walked up the winding roads to the Gloriette, a building that was commissioned by Emperor Joseph and Empress Maria Theresia in 1775. We chose not to pay the admission to go inside because the building does not look like ... read more

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I set out for Shrewsbury fairly early in the morning. I took the train up there and dropped my stuff off at the National Express left luggage facility. The train station is located in the bottom half of a mall. It is called the Darwin Shopping Center after Charles Darwin! I did not know that Shrewsbury was Charles Darwin's birthplace. I did get to see some displays on him and his work though. I only spent a couple of hours in Shrewsbury because there was really only one thing I wanted to see. One of my favorite series of books are the Brother Cadfeal mysteries written by Ellis Peters. The books are set in the 1300's at Shrewsbury Abbey. The remaining parts of the abbey are very much like Ellis Peters described it. Most of the ... read more

We got up around 9am and scrambled to catch the bus at 10:18 to the train station. Everyone had a quick bite to eat and we made it. We bought our train tickets to Gent (11 euros roundtrip for Jonathan and I and the kids were free). We caught the 10:35 train and were on our way. We read a few chapters of Charlotte’s Web on our way and shared some fruit we had packed. The girls had a good time on the train and Eliza made friends with a little Belgian boy her age that shared his ball with her. We got off the train a little over an hour after we started our trip at St. Peter’s Station in Gent. We decided to save the kids legs and catch a tram to the ... read more