Berlin Part II 23rd - 26th December 2009 We forced ourselves out of bed in time to grab the free hostel breakfast, then we headed back up to the room, where I napped until mid afternoon. I think Dan filled in the time just playing the DS and lounging about. After we'd forced each other into the shower and getting dressed we decided to take it easy and just check out the market at Schloss Charlottenburg (The one that was closed the first time we visited). It...

Berlin - Part I Sunday 20th - Tuesday 22nd Dec 2009 I will try to be as brief as possible, but I do have a bad habit of getting carried away, so sorry!! After meeting up with Matt and Jodie at Victoria station for a quick bite, we successfully managed to find the bus, which would take us to Stansted airport. I nodded off during the 1.5-hour journey, but woke up just as we arrived at the airport to hearing John Farnham - You're the Voice being played on the r...

An Autumn in London October - November 2009 So after arriving back into London we had booked 3 nights at a dodgy little hotel in the outskirts of London, near Wembley Stadium. We had done a little bit of looking for somewhere to live while we were travelling but it was just too hard to organise. Anyway, we'd, oops, I should say I'd done lots of looking on the Internet, and emailed and called a few people and set up times to go see places on Monday. We set o...

Palermo 24th-27th September 2009 We had spent some time doing some research on finding the best way to cross Sicily to the capital of Palermo, and it wasn't the easiest of journeys. We were going to have to catch 2 different trains, for a total travel time of about 4 hours. We'd packed up our stuff early and headed on down to the train station, luckily the rain had mostly subsided by now and it was just the wet ground that was yucky. We'd bought tickets and...

Naples, Overnight Ferry and Taormina (Sicily) 21 - 23rd September Right, I'm spending Sunday afternoon writing these last couple of entries up, because it's been more than a month now since we arrived back from Sicily (and I've forgotten lots of what we did already!). We spent most of the day in Naples, fearing for our lives, before heading to the port to catch the overnight ferry across to Sicily. Most of the day we spent in Naples, just walking around the ...