The Charm of Magical Vienna The change from the warm Mediterranean temperature and scenery to the cold and mountainous region of Austria was just phenomenal. I fell asleep on the bus as we were leaving Venice and when I woke, we were in Austria and I was surrounded by huge mountains, it was grey and raining. A dramatic change that signalled the weather for the remainder of the journey. We arrived in Vienna late afternoon and were taken to a very old...

Oh how I fell in love with Venice! We arrived in Venice late afternoon and spent the night at the campsite before heading in via boat the following morning. Even the thought of heading into the city by boat was exciting, and as we came upon the city, my first thought was wow! It wasn't that it was overly gorgeous but more about seeing the buildings rising above the water. Our first stop was to a Venetian glass demonstration, where we were shown how the ...

Heidelberg We stopped in Heidelberg for a few hours in the afternoon and I'm so glad we did have the chance to briefly explore this beautiful university town, situated on the Rhine. I took of with Natalie to hike up the very steep path to the castle that overlooked the town. We didn't have time to go inside but the views of Heidelberg were just gorgeous. Made the walk up worthwhile that's for sure. The castle looked lovely from the outside with it's ...

Relaxing in the Greek Islands - Mykonos After an overnight stop in Athens, we departed very early the following morning (try 6am!) to get down to the ferry that would take us to the lovely island of Mykonos. After a six hour ferry ride with the "ferry police" - they wouldn't let us lie on the seats, put our feet up or even sleep on the floor, we arrived in the port of Mykonos. Here our group was separated into 3 separate hotels, located about 5 - 10 minute...

Lazing around in the Greek Islands: Corfu The journey to Corfu took place on an overnight ferry. Leaving the port town of Brindisi around 8pm, we travelled to Corfu, arriving an hour earlier than planned at 4:30am the following morning. The night on the ferry was spent first eating dinner then having a chat on the deck and enjoying the coolness of being on the water. I crashed early, around 10:30 and am very glad about this seeing as we were woken at 4am,...