I spent much of today sleeping and hanging around the hotel waiting for my tickets to be returned, as I had sent them back to the travel company. All in all I think I deserved a rest after yesterday. I tidied up my accounts and had a skype chat with my boss, she wanted to see if I was all set to go and if I had any questions. I think she was surprised by how few questions I seemed to have. I decided to go out for dinner, I didn't want to fight with the menu...

We left the hotel at 8:30am this morning in our very own mini bus bound for our last stop, Budapest. It was a lovely scenic drive though the mountains and on the way I saw this lake that was so high up, the surface appeared to be covered by cloud. We reached Budapest and had a little bit of a break, before heading out on the orientation tour, Sara said she would make it quick as most of the passengers had to be back for Louise's pre departure meeting. Even t...

I was awoken with a start by Sara this morning, feeling as though I had only just gotten to sleep. Our stop was approaching and we had to get the passengers organized to get off. In our limited space we managed to do this. We got off the train and raced up the platform, then Sara went off to buy the tickets and told the group to follow me to the platform. Only when I was on the platform at the top of the escalators, did I realize how stunningly beautiful th...

I got up unnecessarily early this morning as this was a free day and I wanted to go to the small town of Kutna Hora to see the church of the human bones. I walked back up to the train station and first bought my train tickets for the next tour, this took me about half an hour to sort out. I then purchased my ticket to Kutna Hora for the day and set off. The journey took about an hour and I changed trains to go to the village. I realized when I got to the vi...

We arrived in at Prague at about 7am and walked to hotel Europa. This has to be my favourite hotel so far. It is the oldest hotel in Prague and inside it looks like a palace. It has big plush arm chairs in the corridors, old wooden furniture and Persian rugs on floors made of pink and white marble. It had a central winding staircase and a central atrium with hanging chandelier. It regal, but old regal. Upon arrival at the hotel we had a break of about an h...