Well arrived safely to HEAT!! and we found our appartment, after getting the keys from a darling little Italian man in the Hotel next door. YOu have to climb all these stairs 78 in all to get to reception, we were really knackered!! We got in to the appartment everything is decorated in red and Gold!! It was the only room left in Venice! 300 Euro really worth it though as we are right next to the Rialto Bridge. Fantastic day of seing Venice, feeding pigeons in Sa...

Wow what a great Hotel we had Martin find us!! Right in the middle of Old Salzburg. We arrived at 10pm really tired and hungry- went straight out to eat.The boys and Hattie tried Wienerschnitzel, Paddy said he thought it was like the little Wiener dogs, its not of course its beaten pork, deep fried in egg crumbs.And then down to the old part of the city. The castle was lit and the kids kept commenting on how clean the river was and also the air. We went right pas...

we arrived in Amsterdam after getting the Eurostar from London- saw some sicko guy reading porn in the Eurostar station- the kids all thought that was hilarious. Arrived to dusk in the city and the train dumps you right off in the centre , right ear the red light district!! We managed to catch a number 2 tram to Valaius to a great little Hotel called The Apple Inn. It was an 16th Centuary old dutch home- really steep stairs and no lift! So up we go to the top flo...

Off to the guiness factory today and in the RAIN!! It was a number 123 bus but they pronounce it one, two tree, so funny! Off we hopped and into the factory- it is shaped like a Guiness glass. The first brewer of 'porter' as it was known was of course Alfed guiness, who passed the trade to his son, the first yeast that was used by him a strain has actually been kept and is guarded in the company safe, just so it tastes the same as it did 200 years ago. The proces...

travelled out of Dublin to Belfast by bus- took forever, and we had the hottest bus!! We were down to our tee shirts in no time at all. It was hilarious on the bus as we had a group of irish lads who had been celebrating a stag do and had been drinking rather alot, well cutting a long story short, one needed a rest area! He tried in one bus station- line too long so we had to pull over on the M1 and he did his comfort break by the side of the bus with all these l...