12th May 2009 After a long train ride from Berlin, we arrived into Krakow around 6.30am, walked to our hotel and checked in. This time I was sharing with Lisa. We then met in the lobby to go for our orientation walk around Krakow. We walked in to the main square and wondered around looking at the market and the Belfry. Whilst we were looking at the Belfry the trumpeter, played his usual call, which from what we were told is an ancient tradition. After wonderi...

8th May - 11th May 2009 8th May 2009 Today we were off the Berlin. After breakfast we met the group then walked to the train station to get a local train to Zuid station so we could catch our train to Berlin. We had a bit of a wait as the train was delayed so we bought some food to take on the train, whilst we waited. Finally on the train, I found my seat and pretty much went to sleep straight away to be woken up by Tim once we arrived. The train station i...

6th & 7th of May Today we were leaving to go to Amsterdam. After breakfast we met the group then caught a local bus to the train station. We only had to wait a short time before getting our train to Antwerp then we changed trains to Amsterdam. We arrived into Amsterdam around 1.30pm and then we had a short walk to our hostel. The hostel was in the famous red light district, which was going to be interesting. Amsterdam seemed nice on the way there but as so...

4th & 5th of May Today we had an early start as we were leaving Paris and heading to Bruges. We met in reception after breakfast and then caught a couple of local buses to the bus station where we had to wait for an hour or so before boarding our bus. Once we got onto the bus it was pretty much empty so we all had seats to ourselves. The scenery along they way was nice and green but nothing too exciting to look at. We arrived into Brussels around 1pm and ...

2nd & 3rd of May After having a nice breakfast in my room I sent my friend Marc who I'd met on my trip in SE Asia, a text to meet up. We arranged to meet at the metro station Opera. We went for a walk then ended up going to an Italian restaurant for lunch. We caught up on what's been happening since we saw each other last then Marc's partner Marie came and joined us and we ended up going for a walk around and had a coffee. Marc and I then went for a wal...