We had only arranged a short visit to Milan for 2 nights with 1 full day. We arrived on the Sunday afternoon at 1.30pm. Lucky for us the train wasn't late as we had arranged to see the last supper by Leonardo DaVinci at 3.30pm. This was the only opportunity we had as the convent, now museum was closed on Mondays. Sara, the person we had rented the apartment from was really great as she had pre purchased the tickets for us along with metro tickets so we wouldn't ...

The final bit of the trip to Venice was by bus from the town of Villach in Austria just a few kilometres from the Italian border. The bus driver asked to see our passports for ID as we boarded, but when he saw the cover of my passport he said " Oh Australian...doesn't matter". I don't know whether he thought the similarity with the spelling of Austria and Australia made us virtually cousins, or whether a couple of mature aged Aussies were unlikely to be trying t...

We have just spent 2 nights (1 full day) in Vienna. It wasn't meant to be much of a site seeing visit.... more of a rest day and a means to get better train connections. I'm not sure whether we have just seen too many museums, art galleries and cathedrals, but both Jane and I found Vienna a little boring. Some nice buildings in the middle part of the city, but not much else. I wasn't into Mozart, waltzes, Heidi, snow skiing or those horses from Spain ....Lippizan...

We've just spent the last 3 days in Budapest. The architecture of Budapest more than rivals Prague and is quite unique, maybe due to the Turkish influence...... but what would know? We had heard that a good and cost effective way to see the main sites along the Danube was to take a number 2 tram as it runs for about 3 klm's along the river and passes a number of major sites such as Parliament House and Chain Bridge. The ride unfortunately started a little short a...

As we were spending 5 nights in Prague I convinced Jane to take a day trip somewhere else. That somewhere was a place called Kutna Hora a town 73 kms south of Prague with a population of around 21,000 people. Why Kutna Hora you may ask? Well this small out of the way place is the home to a small church that has an ossary where some 40,000 dead people's bones are displayed in bizarre fashion.....although some may say artistic. Skeletal parts form part of the ceili...