I think it's impossible to come to Amsterdam without preconceptions about sex, drugs, and chips with mayonnaise. All of these were around here, but not as seedy as expected. Sure the red light district is all about prostitutes in little glass chicken pens. They're lined up like battery hens. You can get any kind of lady your heart could possibly desire; young or old (try a 73 year old); big or small; Caucasian, Asian, or African descent. And the coffee shops don'...

Just a quick stop in Belgium between Paris and Amsterdam. Had to sample some Belgian beer and chocolate. Bruges has plenty of both of these, and is the most visited town in Belgium. Perfect spot to relax for a few days after the hustle and bustle of Paris. There wasn't a heap to see or do in Bruges. It's a really beautiful little city with canals and nice old buildings. The town hall on the main square has a pretty tall belfry tower, that we couldn't be bothered...

We arrived in Paris tired from our early flight from Berlin, happy that we had a hotel room all of our own so we could have a little Nanna nap. The renovation work upstairs put a bit of a dampener on those plans, but we pushed through and had a couple of hours sleep. After 5 months travelling our energy levels are getting a bit low, so we just chilled out for the rest of the day ready for some busy days. We did another free walking tour here, taking us from the L...

Both our heads are pretty much overflowing with facts about Berlin's history. We really didn't know what to expect here. We knew it was going to be a pretty good city, but the history is un-escapable. We knew that the city had been divided after the second world war, but didn't realise that West Berlin was actually an island of the West smack bang in the middle of the East. We knew that the wall had gone up, and later come down, but had no idea of the circumstanc...

Good king wenceslas looked out on the feast of steven, there the snow lay round about, deep and thick and even..... Paul is making me do a journal entry for Prague and all that's in my head is songs. So I wrote down the only one I can think of at the moment that has a reference to Prague (a gold star to whoever knows what the reference to Prague is). We arrived in Prague and were expecting a lot from this city (because basically everyone we've met whose been t...