GERMANY | Saturday, 31 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
GERMANY | Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
GERMANY | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [739]
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 | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
GERMANY | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
GERMANY | Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009 | Views [849]
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 | Monday, 26 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
GERMANY | Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [877]
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 >
BELGIUM | Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 | Views [807]
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 >
LUXEMBOURG | Thursday, 22 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 22 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
BELGIUM | Thursday, 22 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
BELGIUM | Monday, 19 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
NETHERLANDS | Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 | Views [733]
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 | Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
NETHERLANDS | Friday, 16 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
NETHERLANDS | Friday, 16 Oct 2009 | Views [893]
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 >
NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
DENMARK | Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 | Views [689]
Hi All, Quick 1hr train trip from Amsterdam and we are in Rotterdam. Lots of shiny new buildings in town centre which is no surprise as the city got flattened in the second world war. We looked around and said "where are all the native dutch people?"... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 | Views [837]
One crucial side of life in Amsterdam was over looked in the previous story.Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, and ¨soft¨ drugs are tolerated. In Amsterdam's coffeeshops, hash is smoked, not fried; "pot"
doesn't refer to tea or coffee;... Read more >
NETHERLANDS | Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 | Views [863]
Hi All, Arrived but tired and a little grumpy (David)!!! Went to store our bags at the train station. The lockers were a little smaller than usual so our packs didn´t fit properly. I started the usual greedy bastard rant and gave the bags a bit of ... Read more >
DENMARK | Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 | Views [747]
Hi All, This is a really really really nice place. People are nice. Town is nice. Air is fresh and clean BUT everything is just so expensive which is frustrating. I didn´t sleep well at the hotel as the hookers below seemed to spend their nights ... Read more >
DENMARK | Wednesday, 7 Oct 2009 | Views [727]
Hi All, We arrived at the Oslo international station then waited about 4 hrs for our next flight to Copenhagen. So we flew 2.5hrs and waited 4hrs to get to our destination. So much time lost in transport terminals on this trip... It took a while to ... Read more >
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