The last few days here in London have been so much fun - I love London! Six of us from Kumuka (Andy, Brad, Julia, Anthony and Glen) have been sightseeing together here as our numbers continue to drop. On Wednesday morning we met up for some silly fun at the London Dungeon, a very gimmicky and spooky take on London history. There was quite a lot of audience participation and I had to pretend to be burnt at the stake while others were tried for various crimes or ma...

After a more than 700km drive we arrived in Amsterdam last night. After a delicious group dinner at a Chinese restaurant (such a nice change, it almost feels home-y!) Susan and Kevin took us around the heart of Amsterdam with a carnival, great looking shops, lots of canals and of course the red light district. It was a very interesting place and hard to get my head around the fact that this is a very normal and accepted part of society. The girls pay taxes, are w...

On Thursday we arrived in Berlin for a late lunch before our Berlin orientation tour with Leigh. It was both funny and informative, included most of the major sights and gave us a taster for the two days ahead. Yesterday morning we started at the Topography of Terror, an open air museum built along a section of the Berlin Wall on the now derelict block of land that housed the Gestapo headquarters. It details the evolution of the Nazis and their regime of terror,...

Yesterday we began our time in Prague with a hilarious group dinner in a cave man restaurant. To be served you need to bang on your table as loud as you can and make grunting noises - well basically as much noise as you can. They even give you rocks to bang on the table to make it all louder! The drinks are served in thick bowl-shaped cups and the food on wooden slabs. The waiters are of course dressed in cave man and woman outfits and speak in grunts and g...

Yesterday we made our way to Budapest, Hungary. On the way we stopped at the border, still a desolate place that appears to have changed little since the fall of the Soviet Union - well of course there are no longer guns or scary Soviet guards. The place definitely had the feeling of a no man's land. Being out of the Eurozone, we also had our first experience of Hungarian Forints - 250 Forints to the Euro - a good new challenge after so long spent with the euro a...