January 11, 2010 – 11:23 am
One night we were sitting at Beer’s house with Katherine and decided… lets go Belgium tomorrow. We chose Antwerp. Within an hour we had booked trains and accommodation. Early the next morning we were on the train to Belgium. One and a half hours later we were there.
We arrived at the beautiful Antwerp station and walked [...]
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 [...]
October 3, 2009 – 9:58 pm
Our second day in Berlin was depressing museum day.
First stop was the Topography of Terror
It was an open air museum about the history of the site which was once an arts school but then the head offices of the SS and Gestapo. There was so much information it took us about 2 hours to [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Also tagged artifacts, berlin, birkenstock, checkpoint charlie, eurail, juliaholmwood, lindsayholmwood, museum, pergamon, ruins, temple, topography of terror, train
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August 27, 2009 – 12:46 am
After leaving the Ferry from the Channel Crossing we caught a train to London. We had had about 4 hours sleep each. Our hostel was near Kings Cross station. The station that is famous for Platform 9 3/4.
We were going to go through but there were a bunch of teenage muggles hanging around running at [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Also tagged britishmuseum, bunkbeds, cannon, catholic cathedral liverpool, crazy, crazy people, greenwich, greenwich ferry, greenwich markets, greenwich mean time, hatters, journeyskingscross, juliaholmwood, kingscross, lindsayholmwood, liverpool, liverpool maritime museum, london
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