After Kat made it off the train unscathed the day started off pretty boringly. So boring that I called it Admin Day to annoy Kat. We did fun stuff like changing travellers cheques (which involved being sent to 4 different banks and then 40 minutes in the final bank while the cashier worked out what to do) and sorting out and booking the final ( Read more... )

Our second day in Budapest involved us exploring the other side of the river (Buda). We began by taking another funincular (I love that word) up to the castle. Karen had a minor tantrum because the castle didn't look enough like a castle and while she did have a point in that it looked more like an overgrown admin building it was still funny to ( Read more... )

So, when I last wrote things were going ok apart from me having seahead (what I called the massive spells of dizziness I got for a couple of days after the boat) and having lost my cashcard (which i quick phone home meant my mummy cancelled my card for me - and they say going travelling is supposed to make you grow up), and I was about to get on ( Read more... )

Rome was good. We went to the Collisium and then found a brilliant restaurnt to eat at, a litre of wine for about 2.50, brushetta for 70p, massive pizzas for about 3,50 which was all really tasty. This wasnt even the night before the massive hangover because we only had one litre at the restaurant and then a bottle at some classy wine bar we ( Read more... )

Our final morning in Venice involved being very rudely awoken by the horrible woman in the tent behind ours making a point of waking us up by banging pans together and hitting our tent. Apparently, despite the fact wed been in bed by 10.30, we were to be held responsible for the drunk people who kept her awake last night which was brilliant. A very ( Read more... )

Anyway, where I left off from before we were about to get a sleeper train from Berlin to Munich...

The sleeper train was a very strange experience. I somehow got lumbered with sleeping on an absolutely terrifying pull down, narrow and high up bunkbed.  The way it works is that its set up in little compartments and each compartment have two seats ( Read more... )

HEATHROW - BERLIN ( Read more... )