Guten Tag from Austria. We were only here for 2 nights after taking an overnight train from Romania, and headed straight to Salzburg. The weather was originally very good, and ater setting ourselves up in a B&B (which was cheaper than staying at a hostel), we headed off to climb a mountain. The original intention was to hike up to an ice cave, so we consulted the map and the signs, and chose a path that would take us directly there. After about 45 minutes t...

Salut from Romania We got here on a sleepless overnight train from Croatia via Budapest. We went straight to Brasov in Transylvania, where the first thing we saw was 2 Aussies pay $50 for 75cent bus tickets to get across town. We walked, and ended up in the same hostel as them. We didn't raise the issue with them though. Of course after being on a train all night, there was no need to sleep, so we climbed a hill instead, where we joined some kids playing truant...

Yes, fianlly getting close to being up to date with this.....Croatia. Well we arrived at Split on the ferry first thing in the morning, and BJ had already picked out where she wanted to head- another ferry, to the island of Brac. This ferry only ook an hour and then another ferry to get over the mountains to Bol. We were so glad we didn't book any accomodation (we rarely do), because at Split, Supertar and Bol, we had been met by locals offering us cheap accomod...

Hi, well I finally got a chance to write a blog for our stay in Italy. After narrowly missing horrible weather at Zermatt, Switzerland, we arrived in Milan mid afternoon. A quickly improvised tour of the city took us to all the important sites and ended at a pizza place on the canal. This pizza place was incredible, and for about 25 dollars all together, we had a half litre of wine and 2 of the biggest pizzas we have ever seen. they were literally hanging off the...

Hi well this is a short blog entry from Gornergrat, Switzerland. Thats near the Matterhorn, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. We hiked from a town called Zermatt, of course up hill for hours to get here. It was a beautiful day the day we decided to do it, although the next day the weather turned cold, foggy and rainy. That was about all the persuasion we needed to pack up the tent and leae for Italy. From our campsite, all you had to do was stick you...