While we were in Barcelona, an old classmate of ours emailed, inviting us to visit her in Madrid. So we thought, why not? The chance to see someone from home and speak Australian English at a normal pace, e.g. super fast (we both speak really slow now so that people can understand us).
We caught our [...]
Barcelona via Madrid
November 21, 2009 – 12:47 am
Granada
November 20, 2009 – 11:04 pm
Lindsay and I had a private room in Granada which overlooked the tourist district. It was the perfect location!
On our first day we decided to walk around the tourist areas before making our way up to the Gypsy part of town.
There were cats everywhere!
We walked along a creek, we looked up and could [...]
Barcelona Week 1.
November 17, 2009 – 3:15 am
Lindsay and I spent 2 weeks in Barcelona. With a trip in-between to Granada. Our first week this is what we got up to:
Sangrada Familiara was only about 4 blocks away from our hostel.
It is rather magnificent! And constantly evolving.
Another day we decided to do a walking tour from our book of [...]
Rome II
November 13, 2009 – 8:19 am
We woke up on Colosseum day and had a (free) breakfast of sugary sweet croissants with medicine tasting cordial and bounced down the street. When the sugar rush crashed we rushed to get some decent food. Pizza!
It was another steaming hot day! We walked up to the Colosseum and were approached by another tour pimp. The guy was very nice and [...]
When in Rome
November 11, 2009 – 12:50 am
We watched the sun seat from the deck of the big car ferry as we left Hvar and made our way to Split, the first leg of the trip to Italy.
It was a bit chilly!
Lindsay and I arrived back in Split and pushed through the room-selling crowds of people like pros - a wave of [...]
Hip Hip Hurrah for Hvar!
October 29, 2009 – 9:26 am
After our day at the bay, we decided to reunite again for another day at another bay so we could finish off our picnic lunch.
Luka drove us again in his big green van to this lovely beach
On the way back from the bay house the day before, a wasp had got into the van with [...]
Hurrah for Hvar.
October 28, 2009 – 7:18 am
To get to Hvar we had to catch a ferry. We walked down to the port and bought our tickets for the ferry. We walked the wrong way then doubled back just trying to work out where the boat was.
The view as the catamaran pulled away from Split was awesome.
This is where the catamaran [...]
Zagreb and Split.
October 23, 2009 – 11:57 pm
I have quite a conundrum, do I encourage you all to go visit Croatia or tell you that its horrible so I can have the country all to myself?
We arrived in Zagreb, we hopped off the world’s emptiest train (there was only 1 nun and a businessman on our carriage!) and walked down the [...]
There are no Kangaroos in Austria
October 14, 2009 – 6:41 am
We arrived in Vienna and found our way to our hostel, helping two guys from Malaysia along the way.
That night we cooked dinner and went to bed. We decided to give ourselves the next day off because I was feeling very tired. Lindsay and I hung around the hostel using the internet and doing [...]
Prague
October 13, 2009 – 12:46 am
On the train to Prague Lindsay and I tried to teach ourselves how to say thank you. It didn’t work so well, so decided to take the mumble then run approach.
We arrived in Prague, found our hostel, Hostel One Prague. The guy who checked us in showed us around. We went up to our room [...]