Big Adventures, Little World

Archive for July, 2010

Feeling refreshed after the decent night’s sleep we made our way to Dresden in Germany, which is a town that was heavily bombed during World War II for no real reason, but has often tried to be justified by the British and United States, although researchers and historians are against the justifications. We went for [...]

Today was another free day and unfortunately I had woken up after about 2 hours and couldn’t get back to sleep because it was cold and wet and the tents weren’t the most comfy at all. So I sat around the campsite until more people surfaced and got some breakfast before sitting around and chatting [...]

Coming into Prague I was really looking forward to it, but the weather soon put a dampener on that with it pouring with rain, and also the campsite not being that great at all. We weren’t going to let that stop us from having a good night though, and also celebrating Lucy’s 19th birthday, and [...]

We had a bit of a sombre stop to start the day at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp from which was used during World War II by the Nazis. It was quite strange wandering around the camp and learning of some of the things that the prisoners were made to do while in the camps. I [...]

We started the day with a walking tour through the city of Vienna visiting the palaces and other monuments and museums. Most things are all within a short walk of each other, all around what’s called the ring road, which is just a big circle and has all the famous places around it. Once we [...]