Finally made it to Bulgaria about 1 in the morning 19/06, after leaving Athens at 8.30 the previous morning. The imigration inspector seemed suprised to find we from England coming from Greece and laughed out loud when he handed our passports back!! This was shortly after his friend tried to fix the train with a hammer, reasuring ya? Or hostel was the funniest upon arriving, after we got into an unmarked taxi and thought we were going to die, but it tur...

After 7 hours of travelling we arrived in athens early this morning, only to be told by the nice taxi man we were staying in the red light district of athens, you here stories of red light districts but we almost felt like we'd never seen anything when we saw fifty plus girls standing 100 yards from our hostel..................welcome to athens!!!! A bad start but Athens is realy nice and the hostel turned out ok, with clean facilities, roof top bar and frie...

The hills are alive with the sound of music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we were supposed to be going to vienna, but when i remembered Salzburg was where the sound of music was filmed i convinced charlie (who has never seen the film, and so therefor hated the sound of music tour of the film!!) that we shoud go!! I got a bit excited about the tour which actually wasnt worht the 70 odd euros! after all, all i really wanted to do was dance on the hills like maria!!! ...

Croatia is beatiful, the beaches are rocky but the water is the clearest weve ever seen. We were looking forward to spending a few days in the sun as our tans were fading fast, two days in the blazing heat here has definatly topped us up!!! We were struggling for time when we decided on Opatija, at first we were going to the capital, but was kindly informed it was full of industrial sites, as we had no research before we came we didnt know this. However...