GERMANY | Saturday, 7 Nov 2009 | Views [14]
Hi All,
Another fitful nights sleep in our dorm.At one stage during the night
it felt like we were under attack from our arch enemies the late night
dorm invaders . Imagine this if you will.The first room invasion
happened relatively early ... Read more >
GERMANY | Friday, 6 Nov 2009 | Views [24]
Hi All,
We packed up a box with some items, including a hard drive with a backup of our travel images, to send to Australia just before leaving London. We used Royal Mail as we expected it to be a reliable and responsible company but the box has ... Read more >
GERMANY | Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 | Views [14]
Hi All, Rathaus (Rat House)- German for Town hall. Makes sense to me :-) Too many towns and not enough enthusiasm to write much so we will just give the order and a few comments to catch up with the blog. Hamburg We arrived from Berlin on the train ... Read more >
GERMANY | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [21]
Hi All, Some german from the hostel cheat sheet. 'Danke fur den ausritt in ihrem streifenwagen' - many thanks for the ride in your patrol car :-) Figured out why they have posters of David Hasselhoff at the hostel. He sung his hit song 'looking for ... Read more >
GERMANY | Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 | Views [17]
Hi All, 'Ich bin ein Berliner'. JFK famously said this but it turns out that the literal translation is 'I am a jelly donut' not the intended 'I am a Berliner'. Bugger. Something got lost in the translation but then politicians tend not to make much ... Read more >
GERMANY | Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [28]
Hi All, We had a plan...but it didn't work. We headed out from Luxemburg towards Germany. The plan was just to get a ticket over the border then purchase a german rail pass and then head to Berlin. Got across the border and found that there was nowhere ... Read more >
LUXEMBOURG | Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [13]
Hi All, Another short trip and we were in Luxemburg. The higher GDP per person country in Europe. We didn't have any bookings and thought we might have to continue on to Germany as accomodation was going to be expensive as we hadn't been able to ... Read more >
BELGIUM | Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [13]
Hi All, I always get grumpy when we leave somewhere nice and Amsterdam fit in that category. This wasn't helped when our train turned up and it was completely full. Well at least 2nd class was completely full and 1st class was really empty. Vanessa ... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 | Views [24]
Hi All, I was determined to get our itinerary sorted out with our contact in Russia today and spent a lot of time chatting with Uylana and going through iterations until finally arriving at what appears to be a viable travel plan. Vanessa went out ... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Friday, 16 Oct 2009 | Views [19]
Dear All, We woke to a lovely blue sky day and decided to head out to Kinderdijk and it´s 19 windmills. To get there it was a matter of catching a train and then a bus. We had conflicting information regarding tickets so ended up buying a ticket to Dordrecht ... Read more >
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