Saturday, September 23, 2006
0545 – Krakow ‘krahh-kov’ (in Poland)
First things first…obtain some zloty the local currency.
Cab to hotel…an orange hotel next to a shell service station in the Krakow booners.
Bags stored. Fortyfive minute cab ride to Oschwein.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Arriving at 0900 at the site of the biggest mass genocide the world has ever seen. I was not sure what to [...]
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Whoopee for Czech beer! (I have to admit it’s been a while since I used the word whoopee… I might try and incorporate it into more sentences….still isn’t as versatile as phwoop-de-doo which is on high rotation on the radio station that is my vocabulary).
Mental aberrations aside….whoopee for Czech beer. It’s apparently alkaline and thusly, [...]
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Morning began with meeting the other members of the tour:
An Aussie couple from Laidley (between T’Ba and Brisvegas)
A bloke from Sydney
A Couple from Canadia (sic)
Tour leader is a Kiwi.
I am the youngest on the tour.
I like the theory of this tour – we get you from point A to point B and tell you what [...]
Thursday, September 21, 2006
A new day dawns.
Met Therese at Malastranska Metro station and we all walked up to Prague Castle. Some visiting dignitary must have been well….visiting – because we were delayed entering whilst a motorcade of several cop cars, dark glassed black vehicles, an ambulance and inumerable motorcycles pulled up at the palace. Some guardlike people dressed [...]
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
I have come to the conclusion that reading a tourist guidebook whilst out and about in town makes me feel as dirty as I imagine I would feel if I were to have a porno spread open in the middle of town.
And frankly when I do have to resort to reading a guidebook in public [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
Prague.
Very empty spacious new looking airport. Another stamp in my passport.
Convoluted travel from airport to hostel.
Bus 119 to metro A stop. Change to a Metro B train at Muzeum. Catch a Tram from the stop you get off at. Any more forms of pubic transport I’d like to catch?
Was waiting at tram stop to catch [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
Well… 24 hours in Amsterdam. Probably not long enough.
Was initially non-plussed. Arrived. Caught train from Schipol which turned out to be the wrong train….but transferred to the right train without too much angst.
Walk from Central Station to Hostel was convoluted and involved walking in many circles as I had a dodgy ill-informed map (and possibly [...]
Friday, September 15, 2006
Have arrived in Amstterdam. Foood on KLM is not overly desirable. An´omlette´is a brick shaped green and yellow blob that might descend from eggs. They serve pot noodles for snacks. The tea sucks.
Oh well….cheap and nasty…you pay for what you get.
Now….to explore Amsterdam in 24 hours before flying to Prague.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
The Europe trip for 2006 is underway. Even if I did leave my mobile phone at home. Grrr. I must either be missing an awful lot or travelling lighter as my bag only weighed 13kg. Not sure how I will cope without a notebook computer.
Finished packing this morning…..washing was still wet last night. Woke at [...]
Friday, September 1, 2006
Whenever I have a good idea that shows some pruomise of being something worthwhile writiting about, I am always no where no a computer or something that allows me to record the idea to expand on at a later time when I can think about it. I am usually driving.
Consequently I hcom to sit down [...]