Right, well that's Vienna done, now on our train to Budapest, think I could live in that beautiful city though, it's so sophisticated & cultured, a little like ourselves I'm sure you'll agree!!!! Stayed in a great hotel beside the main transport centre so we had 3 day passes & we were able to travel around freely ( when we had spare time which wasn't often), we were kept so busy visiting monasteries & palaces & touring the town. We had a great gui...

Ok well here we are back on the bus heading for Austria, hard to believe we're going to be out of Slovakia in the next few hours. My impressions of Slovakia were that it seemed to be the poor relation to Czech Republic which doesn't seem to be quite fair when you consider that not so many years ago they were all one country, can't quite figure how they made the division, however I guess that's not so unusual in Europe, think I'd find it difficult to one day be a ...

Arrived here yesterday after travelling from one end of the country to the other almost, mostly huge cropped fields with never a house to be seen, can't figure out who owns them, very pretty though. Stopped a couple of times to sightsee in lovely towns & visited the inevitable ornate church which are all now mostly tourist attractions as the majority of the population no longer attend, communism saw an end to religion in most cases! Our destination was in the...

Must say it feels like we've stepped out of the pages of a fairy story in this beautiful place, the name means crooked meadow apparently, and I suppose that's pretty apt when you see a map of the area. After Prague it's the most visited place in the Czech Republic, but not a place we've ever heard of and certainly heard very few English speaking people amongst the hoards of tourists in town. We had a guide this morning who gave us a huge insight into the changes ...

Had an amazing day yesterday starting early with our 5 hour walking tour of the city, it's just absolutely beautiful & so good to have a guide who can give you the history of the place, not that I need to do an exam on what we learned however do hope I can retain some of the info! After the tour we wandered around on our own, the old town square was full of buskers, so entertaining, pity about the tourists, they were wall to wall but I guess we can hardly com...