Krackow is very nice when it's not raining. Went to Auscwitz Birkenau yesterday, hmmmm. There is some very tasty ice cream to be had. I have done one of many unintelligent things, namely I have booked a coach ticket to Prague which will get me in at around midnight, alone and with little idea where to go. Oops.   Only a week to go.  Toodle pip 

So, I am currently in the process of thinking about packing whilst in the knowledge that I have to be done by tomorrow because I am leaving to catch a lift into Budapest at 3am. the concert in Sibiu was rather lovely, although for some reason people seemed very loath to applaud the musicians, so most of the time there I was, the peculiar foreigner on her own leading the applause. The recorder player actually made the concert for me - he is a legend and he was Fr...

How come they have no photos of Romania on this silly travel blog?Got to Sighisoara safe and sound and then promptly bumped into two other travellers during the day who said I was mad to have travelled thus because that train is renown for muggings and robberies and other such delights. they then recounted several tales whichI seriously hope were nothing more than backpacker myth because otherwise I am going to get a bus back to Budapest.?I loved Sighisoara, it i...

Yesterday I returned from the lovely little town (sorry, city) of Pecs in southern Hungary, having stayed the night there with Alessahdra and Mewine and even more lovely Italians and French all volunteering there. I only wish i had heard of EVS before I started my gap year.The centre of the old town is really lovely and interesting if you igore the McDonalds in the corner.There is right in the middle a mosque. well, actually the original building was a church whi...

on Friday I roused myself reasonably early, determined to go to Szentendre after my lack of movement yesterday. Actually that's not quite right. I went to the Palace in Godollo and just had enough money to enter on a student ticket. Twas a royal palace fallen on hard times, not kept up by the owners properly which is always sad to see. But now they have restored many of the rooms and you can wander around pretending you are of noble descent if you ignore the ...