Today began early, in order to make it to the meeting place for a tour to Karlstejn Castle, just outside of Prague. We headed for Old Town Square, passing the Museum of Torture on the way (G was very keen, I was not so much). At the meeting place, we found the guide had not arrived yet, so back to the Museum we went. It was actually very interesting but, having had the terrifying experience of the Hollywood Horrors at the Easter Show, I was freaking out, thinkin...

A slow start to the day - we had to do laundry first thing. After that, it was 11am and we dropped our clothes off at Miss Sophie's before heading out to the National Museum. The building the museum is in is worth a visit of itself, with a high dome, statues, a fountain, and gilt interiors. In content, it reminded me of the Australian Museum back home in Sydney - mostly permanent collections such as rocks/gemstones (including a 3,000+ carat uncut diamond) and st...

A travelling day, so very little to report. G and I had 4 seats to ourselves on the train but were constantly being disturbed by noisy Austrians/Germans behind us, and stared at by a French man across the aisle. We got to Prague at 2:30pm and checked into Miss Sophie's (exactly as I remember it!) before setting out to find a laundromat for later and have some lunch (G found out the hard way that train food is never good). We had Italian for lunch because it was...

We arrived in Vienna post-breakfast, at 8:30am, but weren't able to check in until 2pm. So, making the most of our time in Vienna, we set off to find Stephansdom and climb its southern tower for a full view of the city. On the way, we stopped at the Kunst Historiches museum (classical art gallery). It was quite interesting and even had an Egyptian section with sarcophagi (but no mummies, much to G's disappointment). After leaving the gallery, we walked for about...

The longest day of the trip so far. We checked out on time (though at 8am, Clara was already outside our door and explaining everything to the people taking over our room) and dropped our bags at the station, ready for 12 hours of killing time until our train. We began with a vaporetto out to Murano, the island where all the glass factories are, and home to Murano glass (obviously). I bought myself a little glass pug as a souvenir. From there, we caught a vapor...