I cant believe the only time ive stumped someone so far on the language barrier is when I walked into the ALKOHOL 24H shop and asked for a nice bottle of Frangelico... "No understand" Fair enough, I said, I will find and point out, guess what - NO FRANGE!!! She understood Absolut Citron. My initial thoughts were on the money, this is really an amazing city. And one which I highly recommend visiting before it becomes too touristy. At the moment the tourists ar...

I know ive only been here for about 4 hours, but I think ive made an awesome choice in venue with Krakow... Onto that soon. First, my closing comments on Scotland. Two weeks was probably 4 days too many, it really seems to be a fitness fanatics country to me. All the tourists, well most of them, were bike riding their way from city to city. Then hiking up crazy cliffs on Skye, then i dont know, swimming with seals or something. Me and Chuck ended up clocking ...

My time is Scotland is nearly up, leaving on a jet plane to Krakow in the morning, and onto the true travel test, the non english phase. Have enjoyed the break from sight seeing the past few days by playing some golf... some good, mostly average! First off was Inverness GC on Thursday, it was an average course, but enjoyed the company of David and Duncan who tried to give me the local knowledge. Friday I drove down to a great course called Boat of Garten (that...

All the tips I got about Isle of Skye were spot on, what a place! Best description I could give is raw, plenty of hiking was done. The first lot was up a steep trail to a landmark named the old man of storr which is a free standing monolith. Then around to another range of these glacial cut cliffs called the quiraing, im sure i just mispelt that. Generally going for walks in oz you have a nice guard rail, or at least most of the time in the blue mountains on t...

Well off in search of Nessie i went, she was everywhere to be seen, but nowhere to be found! Apart from the obvious marketing push, which to be fair wasnt actually all that strong, there were some lovely spots around the loch. Im of the opinion that my photos cant do any justice to the visuals up here though. Postcards are on every bend of the road. My advice thus far is stay out of the cities they are fairly bland. Stick to the villages and countryside, spend...