I cannot believe that on our last night in Salzburg (Monday) that I sat and watched the movie " Dirty Dancing" that the dialogue was dubbed in Austrian, but at least the music was in english. Woke up to a rainy Tuesday morning and the day was going to be a long one, we left Salzburg heading to Innsbruck and on to Zurich, the scenery was amazing as we were doing a gradual climb up through the mountains and it got even better as we started through the swiss alps, ...

Woke to a beautiful day, then back to the train station to book tickets for Tuesday, we had planned to go to Venice but overnight changed our minds and are now heading for Lyon, this is going to be a long trip, 10 hours of travelling and two train changes, All sorted the next plan was to find the centre of town and find a hop on, hop off bus, we have so far worked out this is the best way to get a quick overview of a city and you can then work out what tourist a...

Did I tell you that just a few doors away from the apartment and on both sides of the street are two hostels and a night club, well did they party on last night, so, not much sleep was had by either of us, as we were leaving the apartment today we were up early to finish packing, then down to Starbucks for morning latte and waffle, We left the apartment at around 11:00 and headed for the station, the night before I was looking at the train tickets and we were to...

We go back a day and it is Thursday, up early to catch the train to Berlin which was a 6 hours 15 minute trip, lucky we reserved our seats and got a cabin for a better word with only two other people in it and they slept most of the way, weather was beautiful and country side pretty, we passed through a lot of farming communities, only problem with the train "Due to technical difficulties" there was no hot food or drinks available, thank god we had had a coffee b...

Up at 5:00am to allow last minute packing and whatever you have to do to leave a hotel room, decided at the last minute to take a taxi to St Pancras station as the underground was to hard to navigate with our luggage and all those stairs. Boarding the channel train began at 7:00am and was a breeze, just put your ticket in the gate, go through security check and then customs, Train was very comfortable and roomy, only 2 seats on each side of the aisle and has caf...