vienna and brtislava are the worlds closest capitals so we decided to stay in bratislava the whole time rather then fork out for austrain accomadation. the train only took one hour and when we got to vienna it was BOILINGGGG!!!! sososososso hot! we had absolutley no idea what to do in vienna so we wondered around and went to the hofburg and parliment building. dan got a lion bar which he was verrrrry excited about and i got some sour skittle tht had ten e numbers...

we got to bratislava quite late becasue we were supposed to change trains at 1.30am but when we woke up we couldnt be bothered and decided to go back to prage and then get a train to bratislava. the weather was lovely the best we had so far. we checked in to our lovely hostel and found a leaflet for the free tour and it didnt start till 5 which was perfect. we were able to do a big wash of our clothes and when we came back in the room there was a dirty old italia...

first impressions of polish were that they were very rude and very unhelpful. when we got to the station and asked the woman behind the counter if we could reserve a train she just said no. and that was it. then after going back delibrating what different train we could get, she suddenly suggested a different way to get to bratislava which didnt need a reservation! we tried to put our bags in a locker and needed change so grainne went to get some by buying some w...

when we got to prague it was pissing down with rain suprise suprise. and so we walked to the hostel looking like complete idiots in our waterproofs and our backpacks had there own waterproofs so we looked ridiculous. we checked in and thought that the hostel wasnt that bad and the bunkbed for once was high enough to properly sit up on the bottom bunk we went out to explore prague and go the metro to the castle climbed like 150 stairs we were so tired and had no i...

setting off from hannover at half 7 and a late night before we were exhausted on the train grainne slept nearly the full way but i wasnt able to get comfortable. we aimed to go to the ´10.30am free tour which meant we had to practically run to and from the hostel to get there in time. on the way there we discovered that our tour was not until 11am so our efforts in rushing was for nothing. while we were waiting for the tour a random choir built up at the side of...