December 10, 2009 – 3:45 am
We left Barcelona at the crack of dawn, and arrived in Montpellier (France) after sitting for 5 hours on the train. Hopping off the train we expected to head up to the ticket desk and reserve seats for the next leg of the trip, Montpellier to Paris. In Barcelona the lady at the ticket desk [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Also tagged composers, customs, fever, flabby things, flabby tummy, flu sick, fountains, hausdermusik, hostel ruthenstiener, hungary, immigration, labyrinth, maze, passports, summer palace, train, vienna
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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 [...]
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October 2, 2009 – 9:00 pm
Lindsay and I woke up very early at the crack of dawn…7.30am! and said a sad goodbye to Beer and hopped on a tram to the train station.
We got our Eurail tickets validated at Den Haag and hopped on a train.
Here is a blog I wrote while on the train to Berlin:
Today we caugh our [...]