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 [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Also tagged alhambra, arabic, bathhouse, fountain, granada, islamic, mosaics, palace, shopping, sick, spain, tea, water
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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 [...]
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Also tagged blue uniform, bohemian bagel, charles bridge, czech republic, giants, golden cow, guard, hostel one, jewish quarter, new europe, palace, prague, roof, scary statue, view
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September 12, 2009 – 2:37 am
Lindsay and I got a lift from Mel to the train station at Harrogate. I waited with our bags while Lindsay went and found us some lunch. While sitting there I made new best friends with 2 ladies and a young boy who I believe was autistic and had a huge interest in trains. They [...]
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Also tagged ace hotel, bridge, church, england, ghost tour, hotel, nationalexpress, newcastle, newcastle upon tyne, ruins, shambles, train, uk, wall, york, york minster, york wall
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August 26, 2009 – 2:15 am
So if I failed at blogging before, I fail even more now. Its been over a month…or 2 months or something since I blogged! jikes.
Another thing I failed in? We met Avi, after talking to him via Beer we finally got to meet up with him at Beer’s house. I didn’t take photos and forgot [...]
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Also tagged bikies, cousins, englishchannlel, family, ferry, holland, juliaholmwood, lindsayholmwood, netherlands, nijmegen, oma, opa, zombie
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So, back to business.
The next/2nd/last morning of our bus tour we all hopped back onto the bus ready for another day of exploring. Our first stop was just a little way out of Inverness.
Loch Ness!
It was quite hazy so we could only just see Nessie swimming around in the mist…
The previous night the boys had [...]
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Also tagged ben nevis, bennevis, bus, fog, fort william, fortwilliam, glen coe, glencoe, hairy coo, hairy cow, hamish, highlands, holy grail, inverness, kilt, lambs, loch ness, lochness, macbackpackers, mist, monty python, monument, robert the bruce monument, sheep, stirling, tour
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April 29, 2009 – 10:52 pm
The day after our wee trip into the highlands, Marlene and David took us to Glasgow to see The People’s Palace, a museum on the social history of Scotland. We spent a few hours going through the museum which was fascinating. The residents of Glasgow have had a hard life over the past 100+ years.
On [...]
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Also tagged arthur's seat, canon, cherry blossom, cobble stones, cold, ducatez, edinburgh, edinburgh castle, fireplace, glasgow, gun, hike, hill, military barracks, people's museum, royal mile, ruins, scotland, wind
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