Wonderful Windsor and Eton Yep, I finally got my butt in gear and headed out of London for the day and with no train mishaps (like last weeks adventure of making it onto the train only to have it get delayed for hours due to a fatality so my trip was cancelled that day!). I was on a train at Clapham Junction just after 9:30am and in Windsor 40 minutes later. My first stop, naturally, was the castle, home of the Queen when she decides to visit - which h...

The Lovely Lakes District Seeing as it was a long weekend, Lis, Joel, Craig and myself decided we'd head up to the Lakes District in North Western England. Thanks to Joel's connections as a travel agent, we were able to hire a car very cheaply, with Joel and I being the designated drivers due both us having manual licences. The car was brand new, a Renault Laguna, with only 9 miles on the speedo when we got it. And call me crazy but I was excited that it ...

With a long weekend at the beginning of May, Lis and I decided that we definately had to get out of London. We decided to fly into Brindisi, because Ryanair were having cheap flights again and we decided if it was in Italy it had to be decent. After a quick look at what there was to do in Brindisi the day before we left we discovered that the lonely planet says "the only reason to go to Brindisi is to get the ferry to Greece or Turkey" (uh oh!) so after reading t...

Well Prague... was just gorgeous. There is no other way to describe it. I was worried because everyone I spoke to raved about it but it lived up to all my expectations. It's entered the top 5 list - it was THAT good. My travelling companions for the Easter weekend trip to the Czech Republic were Lis, Joel, Matt and Kel. We arrived in Prague at about 10pm Thursday night and immediately went to our hostel. Lis, Joel and I had our own room so it felt...

Sunday we slept in and then headed to the train station for another day out of Prague. We headed east this time to a little town called Kuatna Hora, famous for it's bone church. Yes, bones. Very eerie but pretty marvellous as there are thousands of bones inside this church, as in the 1200's they ran out of room to bury them so the monks started to store them. There was this wall of skulls and a chandellier made out of bones. I know, it sounds terrible ...