Post exam travelling!

So I had the good fortune to visit Switzerland for 5 days in mid-June. The first thing that struck me was - this country is expensive..the hotel room I had in zurich was decent accomodation but way more expensive than it would be in any other city. Wh...

 

A Child's Europe

Gray Paris. We slept in our Volkswagon bus as the rain poured down making signs that we were only partially welcomed. I bought postcards of naked female statues and the Eiffel Tower. We found a dingy pension and ate watery spaghetti....I was satisfied,...

 

Switzerland

Arrived in Geneva, late Tuesday, crashed and then got up early, picked up the car and drove to Bern via Rolle and Morges (small towns on Lac Leman/Lake Geneva). We had a look around Bern and then headed for Interlarken. After dull weather on the fi...

 

From the heart of Western Europe to the heart of Eastern Europe on a collision course with Asia

Paris...

 

Western Eurotrippin 2006

Coming soon...

 

Europe '05

Oh God, Rome… We went there twice. We were there for a total of about 8 days? Something like that anyway. It was so unbelievably hot that I wanted to kill people. Our cabin (another camping ground) thankfully had air-conditioning otherwise I think...

 

Shanthi's Excellent (British) Adventure

Something Forgotten in the State of Denmark The running theme of last weekend in Denmark was...well....running. Running for the plane, running to make opening hours of Kronberg (Hamlet's) Castle, running for trains, running to make opening hours o...

 

Mochilão 2006

MOCHILÃO 2006 Dates: decembro 2005 à Fevereiro 2006 35 dias 07 países travelmates - Lara + Gi Berlin - Alemanha Praga - Tcheca Republica Budapeste - Hungria Salzburg - Austria Interlaken / Bern - Suiça Cairo / Luxor / ...

 

Sprechts Du Switzerdeutsch?

Just a little jaunt to Bern. We spent a lot of time in used book shops because Stefan was looking for something really particular. And then we couldn't find the Freud museum, or something like that. Later we went in a little museum-ish place about the ...

 

Europe 2006

Geneva Arrived late wednesday night in a thunderstorm but had a really good hostel booked. Spent next day looking round the lake and museums in the sunshine but best of all the UN. Watched American Pie in the hostel at night and had dinner with some ...

 

Western Europe 1999

Germany's Black Forest. Looked more green than black to me. Swiss town of Gruyere. Stinky, but tasty....

 

In the beginning

sdf A Bell for Ursli is a classic Swiss children's story, with pictures by award-winning Swiss illustrator Alois Carigiet. Ursli is a little boy who lives in the Swiss Alps. He must find a big cowbell so that he can lead the spring procession th...

 

Our 2007 UK and Europe Trip

This trip took us further south west of Norwich than we have to date with our first stop, Sudbury and more specifically the Thomas Gainsborough Museum. Gainsborough was born in 1727 and went on to become England’s foremost portrait and landscape artis...

 

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland is so beautiful much like Austria. I went there on two separate visits, first stopping through Zurich in the summer of 2002 and then going to visit a friend in the winter of 2005. I found that the Swiss people are kind but not as outgoing a...