ITALY | Sunday, 17 Jan 2010 | Views [277]
We arrived in Rome at about 11am, but despite being on a "sleeper" train, we had very little sleep. We made it to our hostel by about 1pm, its pretty cool, more like a hotel than a hostel. probably a good thing to have some peace and quiet ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 | Views [211]
last day in frace. weather is pretty lousy. Our train didint leave until 7pm, and everyone had been telling us to go and check out the pallace at Versailles. We caught the train out there. The Pallace was pretty impressive from the outside, and the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 15 Jan 2010 | Views [203]
Big day today! Euro Disney! Me and Sam are the only ones left of the group in Paris today. everyone else has left. Beazley almost missed his flight, typical. We caught the metro, bright and early, out to Euro Dinsney Land. The weather was pretty average, ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 14 Jan 2010 | Views [218] | Comments [1]
Actually got up early today, first time in the last week. Me, Sam and Beaz went to Sacre Coeur. Brilliant views and impressive church, but the gypsies were rediculous, so were the guys selling junk and trying to tie bracelets on ur wrist and then ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 13 Jan 2010 | Views [200]
We set off to see the Pantheon today...not really knowing what it was. Went to my fist patisserie and had one of those chocolate croissant thingies. Walked through the Luxenbourg gardens which were pretty cool. Eventually found the Pantheon. But it ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010 | Views [200]
Woke up a bit earlier today. Its a bit hard to get out of bed when its freezing outside. Met up with Tom, Chels and Beazley today and we all went to see the Catacombs. The Catacombs are huge! You walk down a tiny spiral staircase for like 10mins then ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 11 Jan 2010 | Views [203]
Some of the guys went to see the major sights of Paris today, but me and sam have already done the biggies. So a few of us tried to go to see Jim Morrison's grave. We got to the cememary but we werent allowed in because of the weather. Its freezing in ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sunday, 10 Jan 2010 | Views [196]
Got some well needed sleep, slept until about 2pm. Went for a bit of a stroll around our area its a bit far away from all the main sights of paris but the hostel is quality so it doesnt matter. Didnt get much sight seeing done today, but we met up ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 9 Jan 2010 | Views [231] | Comments [2]
Woke up at 6am to catch our train...not cool. Sad to leave Barca, best hostel and coolst city so far...need to plan a summer euro-trip for 3 years time when Dan's finished uni and we can come back to barca, maybe portugal, ibiza and the greek islands.... Read more >
SPAIN | Friday, 8 Jan 2010 | Views [204]
Sam wanted to go to the Barcelona FC stadium today, so we made our way over there. Even for a non-soccer fan its an impressive stadium, its the 3rd biggest in the world, and apparently they sell out every game. We got some cool fried bread pizza thingy ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 7 Jan 2010 | Views [269] | Comments [1]
Today we headed over to the Picasso museum. (all 4 of the adelaide crew) Was kinda cool, but it was full of the drity drawings he used to do for his friend. Was nice to see how his style evolved though. From super realistic to cubism. After the museum ... Read more >
SPAIN | Wednesday, 6 Jan 2010 | Views [202]
Today we decided to walk around Barca and see a few sights, and hopefully make our way down the beach. We got chips and mayonaise for luch, was pretty good. Chips are called Patatas, so very similar to greek. Picking up a little spanish as well, i ... Read more >
SPAIN | Tuesday, 5 Jan 2010 | Views [238]
Woke up at aroudn 7am today, had a train to catch to Barca...finally! Took advantage of the hostels free breakfast. 1 stail croissant and the worst coffee ive had in my life. Glad to see the end of the Blue Planet hostel, but Paris has really grown ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 4 Jan 2010 | Views [190]
We headed back to the Louvre today. Some of the painting there are very impressive to say the least. We saw the Mona Lisa...kind of underwhelming, but cool nonetheless. The Venus de Milo was more impressive, so were most of the ancient sculptures. ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sunday, 3 Jan 2010 | Views [214]
Got up this morning reasonably early (11am). We decided to walk around paris and just get out bearings. We generally followed the river from our hostel. After a while we found the huge park infront of the Louvre with all the statues in it. Impressive ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 2 Jan 2010 | Views [235] | Comments [2]
Another 5am start. Caught a cab to waverly train station. Got on our train to london, all fine. Slept most of the way to london, caught our next train to Paris, all too easy. Once in Paris we made our way via the tube to the other train station, the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 1 Jan 2010 | Views [686]
We had lost Will today. Jimmy was his buddy, and they had physically tied them selves together with fluro blue rope. But after a bit of a dissagreement they literally cut the cord. Jimmy made it home but will didnt and he wasnt answering his phone. ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 31 Dec 2009 | Views [157]
New Years Eve and thanks to my brilliant plan of not drinking 2 nights in a row im fresh as a daisy. Had a delicious breakfast of coffee, a banana, bakedbeans on bread and champaigne. Walked to the bottle'o with drew, snowed heavily on us but it really ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009 | Views [190]
Feeling a little worse for wear today. But the shear awesomeness of last night almost makes up for it. Had a bit of a late start today. Me, Sam and Ali went to see some of the sights of Edinburgh. Its a nice city, probably the prettiest ive been to ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 29 Dec 2009 | Views [208]
The 5am start wasnt that bad. Catching the train was actually pretty stress free. We arrived in Edinburgh at around 11am, and just went and grabbed a bacon and egg bap and a cofee while we waited for the rest of the guys to arrive. While we were waiting ... Read more >
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