Category: Travel
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Monday 22 May 2006 Highlights: A brilliant wine and bike tour of Wachau Valley Wow what an enjoyable day. Getting up early I joined a ‘wine/bike tour’ of the Wachau Valley (9 hour tour). This region claims to be the first place that wine was created in by some monks. The country…
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Sunday 21 May 2006 Highlights: The beautiful countryside This was a simple travel day enjoying the countryside as the bus took us to Vienna. The only interesting thing at my destination was that a bag was left in my hostel room which I had to report (and hoping no drugs etc in it). It looked…
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Friday 19 May and Saturday 20 May 2006 Highlights: Cesky Krumlov Castle, Castle Gardens, historic buildings A very short drive to Cesky Krumlov and I was enjoying this fairytale like small city (around 15,000 people). This city survived WW2 without really any damage.
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Thursday 18 May 2006 Highlights: Exploring the Moravsky Kras Caves Some of my fellow travellers were sore this morning (not very surprising given last night’s fun games), we headed out to Moravsky Kras Caves which feature some great formations. We even had an underground boat ride. On both days we stopped in a local small…
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Wednesday 17 May 2006 Highlights: Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church), hiking a mountain To mark the 50th day on the road I decided to undertake a 2 day road trip into the country area. I was the only person to get into the trip from my hostel, so taking off with 7 strangers we headed out…
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Monday 15 May and Tuesday 16 May 2006 Highlights: Prague Palace, St Nicks Cathedral Over the 2 full days in Prague I undertook a walking tour that included visits to Prague Palace and through the city to their historic sites.
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Sunday 14 May 2006 Highlights: Border crossing into the Czech Republic, Terezin Small Fortress Leaving Berlin early I had a long day in the bus but luckily got a seat to myself to more easily relax and enjoy watching the countryside. Crossing the border I was reminded this was the old Central, communist Europe. …
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Saturday 13 May 2006 Highlights: Learning the history of Checkpoint Charlie I visited Checkpoint Charlie and learned about all the escape attempts and the 100+ people who died. You have to remember that West Berlin was surrounded by East Berlin. East Berlin trains went through the West, but didn’t stop. During the…
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Friday 12 May 2006 Highlights: Berlin Wall, Hilters Bunker, CheckPoint Charlie, Bebelplatz (infamous book burning site), Reichstag Dome I’m staying in a hostel in the old East Berlin which is actually were the best sightseeing for Berlin actually is, including the giant TV tower the communist created to stop Western broadcasts. I did a great…
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Thursday 11 May 2006 Highlights: Visiting an old East-West border crossing Mostly today was a day travelling and we got caught up by road works (we left Amsterdam at 8 am and arrived in Berlin close to 7 pm). The most interesting thing of the day was stopping at one of the old East-West borders.…
