We left from Edinburgh and went up the east coast, saw a lot of waterfalls as well as Britain’s tallest tree. We spent the night in a haunted castle. Next day we headed to the Loch Ness and stopped off at a beach. We were all wearing 5 layers while the locals are swimming in the freezing water. Me and another girl went for a 3 hour walk up a mountain for a good view of the Loch Ness and...

London would have to be my favourite city. Our flight landed in the afternoon and by the time we had arrived at our hotel it was quite late in the afternoon so we didn’t do much. The next day was very sunny and warm. We spent most of the day searching every park for squirrels which we did eventually find. We found Harrods easily which was great as Mum didn’t see it the last time she was in London. The...

We nearly missed our flight! We woke up at 4.30am and walked to the Gard de Nord station which was near our hotel and we weren’t able to get a ticket for the train to the airport because they only accepted coins and we didn’t have 17 euros worth of coins and we couldn’t pay with cards because none of them would work and another person had the same problem. There was no shops open at that time of the...

We had a good time in Paris, we got a 2 day open top bus pass because we were too tired for walking and figuring out the metro. It was a good idea as we saw a lot of the city, went up the Eiffel Tower, walked the Champs Elysse, had a look at the Moulin Rouge, went shopping, saw the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, went in the Notre Dame and we tried frog legs and snails in the...

When we first saw Amsterdam the streets had more rubbish than Cairo has but it was due to rubbish collectors being on strike. We arrived late in the afternoon and then went into the main square for dinner, had a look in a coffee shop and a walk around the red light district. The next morning we had a visit to a cheesey cloggy farm and then had the rest of the day to explore. We had a look at...

We arrived in Berlin just before lunch and we got out of the bus and it was freezing!! We had a local guide who showed us Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, the Holocaust memorial and all around the city. The next day we got a small group of people together and went out to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and had a walk around with audio guides but we found it too gruesome so we only stayed for 3 hours. We...

On our way into Czech we experienced their awful concrete roads which feel like a constant cattle grid. We had a stop at Bruno for lunch and were then at our hotel in Prague that afternoon. That night we were taken on a city tour with our guide using the public transport and we got to walk around and see the Astronomical Clock tower on the hour, had a group meal and also walked across Charles Bridge at night. The...

We arrived in Budapest around lunch time on Sunday. A local guide met us after we had lunch in the markets. She took us around the Fishermen’s Bastion (which is really just a street/square on Gellert Hill). We also saw Heroes Square and the very impressive Parliament House which used 40kg of pure gold. It was interesting to have a local guide as she was 14 when the Communism reign ended. On the tour with the local guide we somehow...

I think Austria is so beautiful and it is my favourite place so far. As we were going through the countryside by train we went through all the mountains with snow and waterfalls. Vienna reminds me of Melbourne a little and at times I even forgot I was in a different country. The people speak English really well and the shop keepers don’t hassle you so it was a really nice change from every other country. On the Saturday we...

We flew from Athens to Naples on Friday and ended up spending 3 hours searching for our hotel. We caught the bus to the central square and we were told by our travel agent that the hotel was 50m from there. We had a good look around and on our voucher it had a picture of a castle… we couldn’t see any castles! So we got directions then we walked and walked with our suitcases over the cobbled stone paths...