My last day in Vienna (Thursday) was pretty cool. I went to the Hofburg which is the previous residence of the Hapsburg Emperors and Empresses. The Spanish Riding School is also in Hofburg and they have cheap (well, cheap for Europe) tickets to their morning exercise, so I watched horsies run around to classic music for 2 hours. I then went to the museum-y part of the Hofburg which started with the Silver Museum. Basically this consisted of a whole crapload of c...

Once again, it has been quite a while since I wrote a blog. London turned out to be quite busy. On Sunday I caught up with Kati who is German and did an internship in OH&S at Melbourne Health a couple of years ago and has recently moved to London and had dinner with Victoria again. On Monday I pretty much lounged around and went in search of fireworks to celebrate Guy Fawkes day. I also cooked up a storm for the first time in a long time - ricotta and spina...

Dear All It has been a while since my last post so here's another long one to catch you all up on my adventures. My first day in Barcelona was last Friday and I didn't do too much since I was pretty tired from the overnight train. I went for a walk at dinner time down to La Barceloneta, which is the beachy area of the city, and had dinner of Fajitas and Mojito in an open area cafe on the beach, which was very pleasant. I intended on having a nice early night b...

Internet access has been somewhat patchy this week so here's a nice long blog to catch you up. On Sunday I left Brugge (with a hefty supply of chocolate and waffles) and headed towards Luxembourg. The trains were pretty easy as they run every half hour from Brugge to Bruxelles and then hourly to Luxembourg, making it one of my easiest train trips yet. I also had a couple of American girls from the hostel to travel with to Bruxelles which always makes the trip mo...

Well, here I am wasting more time in train stations, this time in Antwerpen Centraal. While the train network in European is extensive and frequent, the Europeans seem to be particularly bad at running any of their trains on-time. According to the timetable, I had 20 whole minutes to make my connection at this train station. According to reality, I had 2 minutes. In my travels thus far, I haven't had a single train running on-time, however this was the first time...