After six months away, visiting far-flung destinations, tasting exotic foods and lying on tropical beaches, we are now finally home. And it feels like we haven't been away at all... But then Hong Kong does seem like a lifetime ago now! Our last few days in Costa Rica were great. Dave and Veronika's wedding was wonderful, despite the torrential rains which poured down and forced the ceremony from the marquee outside into a room inside the hotel. But n...

Ok, you are probably wondering what an earth we are doing back home. It does seem quite odd to be back but basically we've returned to these shores to get cheap flights. When we strolled into STA Travel in Budapest to enquire about round-the-world flights, they said they didn't do tickets like that, we'd have to get one way tickets as we went along. This could prove very expensive so the only option was to get a cheap flight back here and start again. So t...

We're certainly settling into this travelling lark quite easily. The overnight train from Krakow to Budapest was great. It left at 10.30pm and rolled into our new city at 9.30am the following morning. We'd paid for our own sleeper carriage so had bunkbeds, a wardrobe area, a wash basin and even chocolate croissants for breakfast all to ourselves. I felt like I'd stepped into a 1950s movie like North by Northwest! Feeling very refreshed, we were able to hop on...

Hello everyone! So sorry for the delay in getting our first journal entry on the mighty web! I'll try to do one as often as possible so please keep looking! I also still haven't had chance to upload any pics yet, so this is why the random shots of Prague are on here! Will try and figure it out asap! Well, we're two weeks into our holiday now and things are going great. Our first week in Prague was cool just to chill out and relax in the city we knew quite w...