We were at the bus station at 6:45am on Saturday morning as we wanted to get the 7am bus to Cesky Krumlov, a little down in the south of the Czech republic. The bus ride was 3 hours but we slept most of the way. By the time we got there, all 5 of us were more with it, and hungry so we dashed into the nearest cafe for a drink and brekky - only since they didn't serve breakfast, we ended up with apple strudel and a hot chocolate. What a shame :) We ...

We arrived in Genoa (Genova to the Italians) at about 10:30pm on Friday night so we grabbed a taxi to get to the hotel. It was nearly opposite the main train station so good location. Oh - it was great cuz as we landed and were taxi-ing down the runway, on the left was the port and we could see a cruiseship all lit up. The runway was literally running right next to the water. We really just showered and then crashed for the night, determined to be up and abou...

I had a lovely weekend in Lisbon. I have to admit that I was equally scared as I was excited about going there as I went by myself. I was sitting at work talking to Barbara on Friday and saying this and that it was the first time I'd been anywhere by myself (cuz Brugge didn't really count when it was an organised weekend tour thing) and she said, yes you have Lisa. You came over here. And I went, oh. I forget that and it was the biggest thing I've ever done....

Well it began when I met Tracey at 6pm at Green Park Tube station and we headed over to Hammersmith to see the Counting Crows play. She had a spare ticket and kindly donated it to me as it would make it easier for us to organise getting to the airport etc if I was with her. So we went and saw them play and they were really good. I've always liked their music so it was good to see them live. The concert finished at about 10:30pm so we jumped on the tube out to...

Marvellous Majorca I've just got back from a fantastic weekend in Palma de Majorca, Spain. Palma is the main town on Majorca (or Mallorca as the Spanish call it). Flew out at 5pm on Friday afternoon with Matt and Kel and we arrived there and were at our hotel by about 9pm. The first thing we noticed was that it was a gorgeous hotel - and it only cost us £25 each per night. We were right on the water and straight out in front of us were thousands of yach...