Budapest, Vienna and Prague - Jan 2007

Next trip looked to be short and sharp, but it was perfect. For the record though, I understand why no one travels around Europe in winter - it was so cold the entire time! Anyway I caught up with Sammy C, his dad Barry and his friend Alita. The fir...

 

Travels of an antelope: Fact or Fiction

This will go down as one of the most random adventures I'll ever have! I flew out to Slovakia looking forward to spending three weeks with my girlfriend, thinking I might have time to head off to one or two other places when she was in Uni, but things ...

 

Central Europe

We departed on Christmas day morning at 6am to get to Heathrow, one of the busiest and largest airports in the world - which we found almost totally deserted. We caught our flight in a very small plane (Airbus757) to Munich and arrived about an hour an...

 

Eastern Europe 2007

在二次世界大戰時，華沙近八成的區域被破壞殆盡，隨後靠市民的努力重建，以舊市區廣場為中心，將整個城市恢復原貌。華沙的舊城區相當的漂亮，特別是皇家城堡(Royal Castle)旁的廣場，廣場旁色彩鮮麗的中世紀房舍，加上房舍後方數個教堂的尖塔，從遠方望去沒有人不被這美麗的組合所吸。 ...

 

Albania 2000

Flew to Tirana via Budapest - my first ever plane journey - so amazing, took my breath away! stayed in Tirana mostly with youth from emmanuel church. took daytrip to durres on the coast. albania culture is fascinating! my host family had mtv - i dont h...

 

European Extravaganza (that your not on)....

So after the long ferry ride we arived in Patras and grabbed a train into Athens. I just so happens that my first night in Athens was also my 23rd birthday. We went to this really nice resturant and gazed a the Acopolis at night. Next day we walked aro...

 

Eastern Europe 2005

Dear all, This is day 2 in Macedonia... I think. Everything is all a bit messed up because we came over on an overnight coach will decided to get in about an hour and a half early which meant we were in Ohrid around 3:30am [GMT+1] local time. Luckil...

 

emily and alexandra's european tour may 2006

Greetings from Lisbon!!!! Well, yes, we made it. It is very hot and sunny here. I am a bit sunburned. Not only because of the sun, but because the cobblestones reflect the sun like no other so you get twice the rays. Ouch. We are hat shopping t...

 

Let´s play the traveling game.

That's what I like in my cities. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg blaring through the streets. We decided to take a mini detour to Budapest. It's been muggy and chock full of fun stuff. The day we got here, we discovered that President Bush was following us i...

 

Topdeck Tour 07

We arrived in turkey today and we have 3 nights here which will be a nice break from all the bussing. I went on a day tour with a local guide and we checked out the *Cistern - a 6th century underground watersupply which was originally filled via an a...

 

Europe 2005

my fellow nadir and me wandering in europe...

 

Hungry for Hungary

I sit across from Pam and Oliver Mclemore on their couch in Diosd, Hungary (which means the land of the nuts=)). Pam and I bonded while camping in Baja, Mexico and eating canned vegg-all for a month. We also lived next door to each other in College wh...

 

Eastern Europe Trip Feb 2006

Firstly Lisa, Justin and i headed off to Kirchberg in Austria to meet up with Karen and Morgan and to do some snowboarding. The place was amazing so beautiful and we were very lucky, it had snowed a few days before we arrived. Whilst in Kirchberg we we...

 

Niddy and Bels Euro Adventure

Here are the photos of Niddy and Bels Adveture, you all got the emails but here are the highlights!...

 

Europe 2007

Today we walked around looking at the sites of Budapest, i would recomend that if you are going to do it you give yourself more that one day as unlike most of the other cities we have visited budapest is very spread out, so the sites are all far away f...

 

Eastern Europe 2002

In our typical fashion, we spent our first day in town wandering the streets... Budapest has a big city feel, smog and all... it's also a bit on the seedy side... there seems to be a fascination with lingerie shops here... someone should let Vicky ...

 

Hungary

This trip was very last minute a week before we left Alli and I were having lunch and decided we wanted to go somewhere and Budapest was cheap and looked like fun. Our flight was at stupid oclock in the morning so we sat up drinking until we could get...

 

Far and Wide - Trips to the world inside and outside of me

Sometimes our journeys take us to the strangest places...or life does. If somebody sent you a ticket and told you to fly to the States and meet somebody you have never seen in person just like that, would you do it? I did... I always wanted to...

 

Our 'European Vacation' 2006

Phew! Finally made it to Paris after a gargantuan effort packing up our lives in London. We were working 16-18 hour days just trying to sort through all the crap we've accumulated over the past 4 years. But we managed to get the boxes packed and sent o...

 

Europe Summer 2005

My friend Anna and I decided that we needed to get away straight after the exams and so we headed for Europe. The plan was to see as much as possible whilst spending as little money as possible. We didn't get to see everything we would have liked to bu...

 

Asia Overland 2006

After more than two months in the Middle Kingdom (Zhong Guo; China) we had visited many, many temples. We had travelled across the north of the country, mostly along and around the Yellow River (Huang He) and most of the temples that we had encountered...

 

Budapest, Christmas 2005

To Budapest for Christmas. High points of this trip were a visit to the glorious opera house on Christmas Day (La Boheme) and a happy few hours wallowing in hot spring baths at the modernist Gellert hotel. A snowy day in the old town on the Buda side o...

 

Hungary 2004

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Around The World in 130 Days

Short Version 1. Went to the Panda Research Center early 2. Introduced to the seedier side of chinese culinary habits Long Version We had organized another tour to go see the sichuan panda research facility - which is kind of a panda-only zoo. I ...

 

Interrailing 2005

Arrived in Berlin at 5 am!...

 

Eastern Europe, Spring 2006

Two week traveling holiday...

 

Eastern Europe in Winter????

Budapest was very cold, it didn't matter what we wore, it was hard to stay warm. Although there were certain things we liked about it, such as being able to get a good coffee finally, generally we found Budapest hard to get really excited about. We f...

 

Shanthi's Excellent (British) Adventure

Comrades, commercialism, castles and crystal were on the agenda this month when Priya, Adnan, Rashida & I hit the gorgeous historical city of Prague, or Praha in Czech. A picture might well tell a story of a thousand words, but pictures of Pragu...

 

Eastern Europe

The final stop on my first journey through Europe find me in the "Paris of Eastern Europe", Budapest. Again I only really had a day to look around so with my trusty Lonely Planet in hand I headed off for a day exploring. I soon found o...

 

Weekend in Budapest

Its was pretty cold and windy but the local food and beer was very good....