At breakfast we decided that we really would like to stay at the hotel another night as it was the ideal location, fourth floor with A/C and a balcony overlooking the tower at Saint Mark's and despite being 3 stars, cheaper than the 1 star gaff we were booked to move in to today. We thought that we'd simply forfeit the deposit and after asking, another room was booked. I then checked my email from Hostelworld to find that despite paying a deposit my card would be...

After a very restless sleep on the night train, being woken up several times as we passed through passport control going through various european countries, we finally hit the west side and into Venice at 7 o clock in the morning. Ben probably had the worst nights sleep out of all of us due to the very fact that it was his duty to sleep on the bottom bunk. It was early but already the locals were up and starting to prepare their shop displays for a days trading...

Our last full day in budapest was to a certain extent a case of 'hurry up and wait' as the lure of venice was proving very exciting. Having only had four hours sleep, most of our day was spent relaxing, although dan and ben spent a little time seeing the parliament buildings in the day light. By four o'clock we were on our way to the train station for the night train. On first viewing the train appeared to be in worse condition compared to the other night trains ...

Spa day! A very welcome relief after another night on the town. We took the tubes for the first time which was an experience. Very noisy, very rattly and best of all Casio keyboard sounds at every stop synchronised with flashing red lights that confuse you into thinking there's a major emergency. A video was taken in case you'd like to join in the experience. Fortunately we'd purchased our spa ticket from the hostel as when we arrived we discovered a massive que...

Im not in a good mood... The relatively good nights sleep on the night train to Krakow was exchanged with a horrendous nights sleep en route to Budapest. Eddie had the top bunk this time and I was on the bottom, leaving Ben indifferent in the middle. The lack of air conditioning meant the window and the blind had to be left open. This allowed light in every time we entered a station and with poor quality rails, it was very noisy. 10 hours down the line we roll i...