Amsterdam 13th - 15th Feb We decided that we needed a refreshing mid term break, so we booked up some cheap flights to Amsterdam.We caught a late flight out on Saturday night, and after only being in the air for what seemed to be minutes, we arrived at Amsterdam Schipol airport. After some confusion with buying train tickets, tram tickets and a disorientating walk around we eventually found our hotel and decided on some sleep; it was well after 11pm! The ...

London January 2010 We haven't really done a great deal this month. We've just tried to hang at home as much as possible, to save enough to go on more exciting trips. Luckily we've both picked up a fair bit of work, Dan's not actually managed to have a day off since we got back from Edinburgh. I did the first two weeks of the term at the most amazing private school just a few stops up the tube line in Hammersmith. Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman are both ex-st...

Edinburgh Hogmanay 31st December 2009 - 4th January 2010 This will be fairly brief as it is over 2 months later that I'm writing this and trying to remember what we got up to! We were up at a decent hour on New Years Eve, considering how late we'd arrived the night before. We found Matt and Jodie and set off in search of a breakfast before heading up to the Royal Mile. We made our way right to the top near the castle and found the first pub of the day. We ...

Bremen 29th - 30th December 2009 The train journey from Hamburg to Bremen should've been easy. A direct train usually runs between the two towns, but for some reason the day we wanted to travel they were doing work on the tracks and had to go on a roundabout kind of route. We bought tickets and jumped on a train that was heading to Frankfurt. We only needed to stay on it for about 45 minutes, then we were going to have a 15 minute wait until we jumped on a...

Hamburg 26th - 29th December 2009 We arrived into Hamburg around 4, and quickly found the s-bahn, which took us out to our hostel. I was a bit concerned with our accommodation, as it was quite difficult to find somewhere affordable in the city. As we left the s-bahn station my fears were quickly realised, when we found ourselves surrounded by heaps of homeless bums and drunks. We were smack bang in the middle of Europe's biggest Red Light District. (Apparen...