So, this is it. My final, final journal entry. For the best part of the last 6 months I have brightened up your days with tales of allsorts of goings on. It is only over the coming weeks that you will realise how much you will miss my updates! At times, they have been more for my benefit than anything else - recording where I went, what I did, people I met. But I always tried to turn them into a bit of an entertaining story, I hope that at times I succeeded ...

Thankfully, I could go straight to bed once I arrived at the hostel; goodness know what I would have done otherwise! After a good snooze, I woke up and started stumbling to the shower when a voice came from behind me "Hello Jonny!". It was Edoardo, in the bed next to me! It was really coo meeting up with him again, especially with the hostel being very quiet, and we would soend the next 3 days together. With Sunday being the start of the season for United...

We arrived in Warsaw late on Wednesday night, and I immediately had a nice feel about the place. Just a couple of small things like meeting a local girl who had just come back from working as a cleaner in Manchester, and then a friendly lady who helped us with directions, meant that things just got of to a good start. We went out for a gorgeous last meal together, and then after seeing the girls off on Thursday morning, I had a welcome chill out day - sli...

Our time in Krakow, for me at least, had everything, despite getting off to one of the worst starts possible. Arriving bleary eyed as usual, we had bought tickets for the tram and genuinely didn't know that we also needed one for our backpacks, but as fate would have it, the inspectors would be on our tram and so we each got fined. He tried to make it out that he was doing us a favour by reducing the fine a bit, but in reality all this meant was that it became ...

Ever since I first went Prague 3 years ago, I had been dying to go back. Yes it is tourist central, but somehow for me that does not take anything away from what is a really magical place - even ignoring the cheap beer! We had a really nice, new hostel for our 3 nights in Prague and it was such a relief to finally have somewhere comfortable to stay. So after a little kip after we arrived ,we set out and had a wander around Old Town Square, the Clock Tower, and...