Blogs from Europe - page 13922

So, Back In September, after leaving Portsmouth, and bumming around London with a few friends, I decided to goto Germany and Holland. I had saved a bunch of cash in Portsmouth, considering I worked 60 hour weeks and hated the town, So I booked a ticket to Berlin. I had a strange feeling about it before I even left my friends in Camden Town, and when I arrived in the airport, a 45 minute drive outside of Berlin, I realized why I felt to strange. So, after I get through customs, I arrive in the airport terminal, and go straight to the Bank machine. So I pull out my new UK HSBC card and try to takeout 100€, and the machine says that this machine does NOT accept my card. After trying a few more, I ... read more

We had not thought about going to France until I saw a television programme about Andorra high up in the Pyrenees mountains. It was much later that I saw a further programme about Perpignan. I was in love and needed to see for myself this beautiful, magical place. There is an airport at Perpignan but our destination was on the coast at Canet. Checking the internet for flights resulted in us choosing to fly from Barcelona and drive into France. We collected the hire car, once we had found the car parks (the airport is massive) then off we went , down endless tunnels, trying to keep in the correct lanes and follow the signs, fortunately we had with us a new toy satelite navigation, it kept us on the right road until we got to ... read more

Servus de Herrschaften! Heute war wieder mal sehr konsumierend: habe ein Board gebrochen und der Fahrt hart am Wind ist ein Leine gerissen und ein Teil vom Bar wurde abgesprengt. Der Wind war, wie man richtig vermutet der Hammer und mit 16qm war richtig Schmackes dahinter. Jede Menge High-Speed-Fahrten im Trapez und viele Spruenge. Keonnte Monate so weiter machen... Anbei diesesmal ein paar Fotos der letzten Woche inkl Kite. Enjoy, Mischa... read more

Nadia, our Moscow Buddy, meets us in the lobby after the breakfast of semolina and honey (actually quite yum). I’m relieved the guide is her and not the spivvish guy with scary eyes who’s wandering round. Outside it’s a glorious day, already hot at ten o’clock. It’s only 7am in Ireland but I’m not feeling it. I feel fine. As we walk to the Metro she tells us she comes from a city where everyone works in aviation, which wasn’t shown on the map until a few years ago. There were perks to living in a secret city - they didn’t have to queue for food as long as people elsewhere did. I tell her both our parents worked in Dublin Airport, but it’s not quite the same. (If Swords were a secret the world wouldn’t ... read more

Egg # 2 Hi all - very short update from us today. We are in an internet cafe in Orleans and the keyboard is jumbled so naturally its going to take me ten years to type anything (Im bad enough under normal conditions!). Anyway - been en France for the last 5 days. We drove (Alan drove) down to Blois which is on the river Loire and we found a little campsite just below the main town. Its fine in terms of facilities, but ultra cheap at only 8 € a day. The weather has been amazing until today when it started chucking it down at 4am. Its not bad now which is typical as we are indoors. Merde! Went to Chambord Chateau on Wed and yesterday did a ten mile hike. Yes I did sleep ... read more