November 21, 2009 – 12:47 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Also tagged 3 turtles, bell tower, cafe, chainsmoking, croatia, eurail, fish, hostel, nun, roman palace, scared of heights, split, zagreb
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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, eurail, fever, flabby things, flabby tummy, flu sick, fountains, hausdermusik, hostel ruthenstiener, hungary, immigration, labyrinth, maze, passports, summer palace, 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 [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Also tagged Add new tag, artifacts, berlin, birkenstock, checkpoint charlie, eurail, juliaholmwood, lindsayholmwood, museum, pergamon, ruins, temple, topography of terror
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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, castle, church, england, ghost tour, hotel, nationalexpress, newcastle, newcastle upon tyne, ruins, shambles, uk, wall, york, york minster, york wall
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