European Travels

So just writing a realy quick one as there's a queue!!

Left slovakia after having a really nice nigth out with a group of scottish lads, however as a result we missed our early morning train!! lol. luckily they're fairly regular so we just caught another one!

budapest was fairly nice.. a bit of a dirty city though. you should've seen the walk to where we staying... argh!!! lol. luckily the hostel was nice. kind of in some womans house but she was really friendly. only there a couple of days.. buda is much nicer than pest (where we were staying), but didnt rate it much as a city really!

now in bucharest... arrived by sleeper this morning.. a really nice one actually which was good! got a better nights sleep than on the lost one! omg how scary was bucharest when we arrived!!! there's like wierd men with messed up eyes like bleeding and stuff everywhere and there are so many stray/wild dogs!! i hate them. although they stay away from you really which is good! theres like kids begging everywhere and stuff and we're stopping in some kind of shack, but again it's nice inside, thank god! wandered out of the city today as we didnt fancy venturing in yet - found a really nice lake and parks which was nice! soooo hot so had a bit of a relax! going to head into the main city tomorrow before leaving tomorrow night again by sleeper to sofia! cant believe we're nearly on our last country! had an amusing experience today... went to a restaurant type place for lunch and when we were paying it came to like 690 romania money and heather left 700 notes and then a 50 coin (by mistake) which is like 5p or something stupid.. then they came back with our change, all of 60 leu and then on the way out the guy said to me was there something wrong with the table? i said no why and he said next time there will be!!!!! how rude! we figured it most be because they thought we'd left them a really rubbish tp, but how rude! then we went out and this guy nearly ran into me on his moped (on the pavement!!) and started shouted!!! argh! then we went to cross the rude and this car full of lad started shouting at us!!! lol. been an eventful day... friday the 13th!!! although apparantly it's lucky in romania!!

anyway, better go as theres an australian waiting! lou's gone home now... wierd that we're still here and her and sarah have gone home!!

love to all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

omg willsy shaved his head?!?!?! argh!! let me see!! yea and put some summer ball pics on - facebook will be easier i imagine?! glad you had a good time! lol, not spoken to aiden in a while, forgot he was back with megan! hmmmm maybe but i really dont believe he's the best boyfriend!

oki doke... any news on spice girls?!

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Again i've forgotten what i last wrote about (i really should read my blogs before i post another one! ha!)

i think i last wrote in slazburg?! ha meant to tell you - on the sound of music tour some random middle aged italians came up to us and asked to take our picture as we are 'bella'!!! how amusing! it cracked me and heather up anyway! spent our last night in salzburg with the americans (soooo nice!) oh and we went out to some austrian restaurant for tea. heather had a very bad experience with the food - very funny! i couldnt stop laughing! it was bad food! i on the other hand made a good choice!

travelled to vienna the next morning - the americans were on the same train as us. arrived no worries and headed to our hostel. had to get on the underground (which we navigated extremely well, our rucksacks just tended to smack people in the head... ooops! lol) the hostel was the stupidly expensive twin en-suite one... the annoying thing is it wasnt even that nice and had no breakfast! was nice to be able to do all my washing and sprawl it round the room though - i had a serious shortage of clean underwear (and clothes for that matter!)we headed off into vienna... sooooo hot. too hot infact! not the biggest fan of the city, especially compared to salzburg. met up with liam and talia as they were there for the night which was really nice. went to a nice bar in the shade and sat chatting for ages - they're so nice and easy to get on with! you can stop with them in australia when you go vee! they're ace!! then we did a bit of sightseeing and then headed out for tea together which was lovely! they wanted to go out, but we were all hot and sweaty so we agreed to go get changed and meet back up! they were stopping at the opposite end of the city to us in a nice hotel as all the hostels were booked up (even our overpriced one!)and they wanted to meet at theirs as they had a tv and stuff. we agreed... it took us at least an hour to navigate our way to theirs on the underground!!! we had to change on to at least 4different lines! lol. then these huge black guys came and sat with us and started asking for our phone numbers!! so funny... heather told them we didnt own mobiles and im sat with mine in my hand!!! luckily i managed to slip it into my bag! this was pretty scary as it was 11pm at night!!!! i think they just wanted some girls to go out with... one was called colin which made me laugh - how unblack is that?!?!!? hahaha! anyway, never went out in the end, just hung at liam and talias which was nice and then got a taxi home!! wasnt going through that palava again!

the next day it thunderstormed... lovely! as we are now experts of the vienna underground we just used that all day to get around! tried the sachre torte cake thing which is austrian and good... much better than the horrible sauusage experience hev had in salzburg! i forget the rest of that day!!! lol. spent the eve in the common area chatting to some irish people - i couldnt understand them they had a really thick accent!!

travelled to bratislava this morning... only took an hour which was lucky as we missed our train!! but they're so regular it turned out it didnt matter! our hostels here's really nice, but we leave at 7am tomorrow so we're going to miss breakfast... gutted! not had a decent one since salzburg! went for a traditional slovakian lunch... really funny. everyone's been telling us that the locals arent friendly, but the ones we've met have been! we'd been reading about this traditional dish and we wanted to try it. so we went into a slovakian looking restaurant and asked for what was in our leaflet (Even though it wasnt on the menu!) and they went out and bought all the ingredients for us!!! how funny! lol. we didnt really understand what was going on! thank god we liked it as we wouldve had to eat it after all the effort they went too! then we had some wierd slovakian dessert which i really didnt like, but felt i better eat it!! for both of us for a drink, main course and pudding it cost 350slovakian money! which is like 7quid... how cheap is that?! heather had a 50p beer!!! lol. my tango was more expensive... 65p!!!

anyway, we walked up to bratislava castle, not that impressive but you get a brill view over the city and the danube so it was worth the trek up there! horrible weather... lou says its red hot in italy!! but it's easier to carry our bags when it's colder so its all good!

dont worry about steve.. heather's parents are getting us! thank you anyway! hahaha jas you bully!!!

anyway, hope nana's ok. send my love to nan and grandad!

love to you all!

Jade xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Had a spare hour and found a cheap internet cafe so figured we may aswel take advantage as you never know when you're going to be able to get on in these strange eastern countries!! hahaha!

fogotten where i got up to with things...

never did prague properly i dont think? we arrived (after leaving an amazingly beautiful and sunny krakow) to a cloudy prague at 7am in the morning after a night on the most awful sleeper train ever... v amusing though! we made our way to the hostel which was really nice - in a room with melissa, a 23year old aussie who has straightners and shares her clothes! yay! danny and jaime a 23 yr old aussie couple and dave a 35 old aussie fireman who's v cool! lol. so we were outnumbered! lol. they were all lovely lovely people! the receptionist guy was cool, he found it amusing to pretend he didnt have a clue who we were when we tried to get our rucksacks, when he ob did - heather got v confused! lol. met up with lou and sarah and spent a few hours walking round prague with them. they left and the heavens opened - gutted! so we headed back to the hostel and showered and then the sun came out in its full glory! the weather is so unpredictable everywhere we go! went for an ice cream and a stroll around in the sun - really nice actually. the more time i spent in prague the more it grew on me! we went back and got ready and dan took us out for a meal.. which is when we had our traditional goulash and dumplings mmmm! then we went out and celebrated july 4th with him and the rest of the americans (even though it was a bad day for us!).

we spent the next day just mooching around, i love just taking in each city and making the most of being there rather than spending time indoors doing thingsyou could be doing anywhere if you get me? we had tea out at a pizzaria the pizzas were huge! then we went back and went for a walk and to the supermarket with dave. then we went on the most hilarious ghost walk in the world - the woman was absolute comedy!!!!

times nearly going and barns just come online and i cant do 2things at once! haha!

anyway left early the next morn to get to salzburg. sat next to this american lad who was so lovely so that made the 6hour journey go much quicker! arrived at our hostel - not very homely and has the crappest showers but wer used to roughing it now! lol. met up with lou and sarah again and went out for lunch with them... thats when i had my schtizel and apple strudel etc! spent the night at the hostel watching the sound of music! lol.

up early this morning.. had a decent breakfast whihch i havent done in ages as not all the hostels have it and you knw how i like my bfast! lol. went on the sound of music tour.. salzburg is really beautiful but im not the biggest fan of the film so i ddnt recognise everything but good all the same! 2 american 20somethings from our hostel did it too so hung with them and then when we got back we spent some time with one of them - shes v nice! and then we popped on here think wer going up a mountain in a cable car this noon!

time nearly gone... think that's about it! still having an amzing time but my budgets gone to pot since heather arrived!!! hahaha!

love to all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

just a really quick one because ive stolen louise's minutes as i have no money i swear! lol. in salzburg austria atm with lou and sarah which is nice - last time our paths will cross just had a traditional austrian lunch of schnitzel (cant spell that for my life) and apple strudel! oooo had goulash and dumplings in prague which is v traditional and delish! had a good time in prague as we spent sometime with lou and sarah there aswel and we met up with dan and the americans which was nice. doing a sound of music tour tomorrow yay. this comps v rubbish cant press all the keys grrr anyay time going sorry so quick

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That was a long comment vee! thanku! the plough... vicky coggins!?!?!? ahahah! nice of uncle p though! shame about thirteen! congrats on your job all the same!

in prague atm.. its raining krakow was amazingly sunny yesterday! managed to meet up with lou and sarah briefly this morn which was nice! the sleeper train last night was foul! all an experience though! poor heather.. not a nice first train! ah well!

went to the salt mines in krakow yesterday - pretty impressive! and then just made the most of the nice weather and strolled around taking in the sights! went out for tea again - poland is so cheap! its really nice aswel - youd love it mum! its beautiful! def love to go back! omg guess what?!?!!? strolling around the square after tea last night and bumped into joesph kelly, alice, jess and thomas finch!!!!! my word can you believe it?! speash as hev and joesph are cousins its even randomer! v amusing we got pics to prove to lou it had actually happened! i looked a state too but lous theory of 'wer not going to see anyone' didnt pull through!! lol.

not that keen on prague so far, think it may be because its raining... makes it look a bit drab. theres some amazing buildings and pretty backstreets, but not what i expected. got another day here so my opinion may well change! going on a ghost walk tonight then meeting up with dan and the americans for a meal out which should be nicE!

theres a queue so best dash!

speak soon.. love to you all! xxxxxxxxx

Oh my goodness cant believe i havent been on in like 4ish days!

well im going to work backwards (i think?!) lou and sarah have just left.... gutted!!! missing lou like mad already (and you sarah of course!), it's been sooooo hot here today, too hot some might say, but it just started thundering as those 2left! god didnt want them to leave either! just spent today chilling and strolling round old town - krakow is amazing! i love this city (but your hands up for prague! hahaha! get it!) we did a bit of sunbathing on some grass by a river (recent late nights are catching up on me!) which was really nice! had tea out for lous birthday which was lovely... went to the old square and sat outside - me and heather had some traditional polish dishes which was cool and delish! picked heather up from the airport this morning which all went smoothly - feels like shes been here for days already and she is very well prepared and listened to all our advice which is brill! had to get up at 7 to pick her up i didnt get to bed til 230ish this morn as a brother and sister wed got friends with left this morn and talia, sarah and lou went to bed and i took a pen down to get liams email and ended up chatting to him til the early hours without realising! that boy can talk for australia, but im pretty good competition! lol.

yesterday we went to austwizh (as you know mum) which was pretty hard hitting... so sad. yea. horrible. anyway, we went with andrew too so there was 4 of us which was cool (he's next to me now lou!!!), we were meant to go at 9am but as soon as we got home at stupid o clock the night before we didnt get an awful lot of sleep and after about 3hours of sleep i had the urge to get up and have a shower and wash my hair and get dressed! lol. so i spent the morn just hanging out with the americans and talia and liam. then went to austwizh in the noon. had tea out (again with andrew - the australian in our room) just to a dirt cheap american diner type thing as we were starving and it was like 10pm!

erm... we arrived in krakow on friday (after our detour via warsaw! which im soooo glad we did! we arrived at like 11pm and at night it was amazing and the hostel was gorge!) we got here, dumped our stuff, checked our emails etc... this hostel is v v v nice! best one yet! glad im here for 3nights, met the best group of people, but its dead tonight.. only me, heather and andrew in our 8 bed dorm. chatted to an american girl when we got here who said she was part of a group who were studying in prague but had just come here for the weekend and she invited us out as they were all going, but we knackered after all the travelling so we said no! spent the day exploring krakow... i really do love it here! lous decided shes getting married here!!! hahaha (minus the tourists though sarah right?!) got back to the hostel and made ourselves some pasta with cheese, a tomato sauce and bread for tea which was good. got chatting to some more of the american group (they're all ace!) and decided we all wanted to go out with them after all! got showered and changed and went to the common room (soooo nice, like a living room with a huge flatsveen tv - same as ours at home but loads bigger!) and we met talia and liam for the first time (australian bro and sis, hes 21, shes 24 who have relatives in poland, so have visited them and are now doing the rest of europe together) and dan and bobby (2 of the american group) and andrew. had a really good laugh! all the rest of the american group said they were ready to go, but dan needed to get something so he went and we all waited and the rest of the group left without either party realising so it just ended up being the 8 of us, but it was a really good sized group and nice mix too! went to some polish bar first and then on to a club - we all had a really really good night! felt so safe too! bobby is like huge, but like the friendliest guy ever! hes like the bfg! love him! so he looked after us girls! he's a bouncer back home so that was good. however, we all got split up at the end and andrew walked us girls home, bobby and dan got a taxi and so did the other 2 but a diff one... found this out the next day - we couldnt understand how they got back before us?! anyway, bobby was feeling sick so he decided to stay outside so he wouldnt make a mess inside (bless him!) but he ended up getting mugged!!!! hes like the hugest guy big rugby build but he was passed out on the pavement and (we watched the security tape - the staff here are ace!) these 4guys circled him for ages, then one grabbed his neck while the others got all his cards, passport, money and even watch and legged it, but thew funny thing is bobby slept through all this! we couldnt stop laughing!! he had no sleep that night as had to go to the police station... luckily some random found his cards and passport so he got those back, but hed already cancelled his cards by that time which sucked! out of all the people he was the least likely to get mugged, it was mental! they left yesterday, but as they're in prague, they've given us their address and directions as they have an apartment and invited us to stay, but we've already booked our hostel so not sure what to do - 2free nights though?! heather hasnt met them though, but theyre so easy to get on with! def meet up with them either way!

we worked out today that we're going to be in prague for 5hours at the same time and lou and sarah and then for the same in salzburg which im sooo happy about! be lovely to catch up with them!!! also when we're in vienna, liam and talia are there so prob catch up with them which'll be v cool! you meet so many ace people! im loving every second - except the one where we had to say bye to lou and sarah! lol. missing you 2 already!!

anyway, may get myself to bed as we're on a sleeper to prague tomorrow and doubt we'll get a good nights sleep and had too many late nights so think a lie in is in order tomorrow!

erm... forgotten what you asked! lou says thanku jas! and yes she text tom back - her phones is being daft! omg spice girls!!!! get lou a ticket too! she can be the 5th! o checkpoint charlie is the point on the berlin wall where people had to go to cross between east and west germany. you had to have certain documents etc and some families were split up, but weren't allowed to cross the wall so the museum was about the methods they tried to cross it and just what happened there - so much writing! think that's it! just been told theres some yorkshire people in the lounge so going to go and meet them! also the girls in our room when we arrived were from sheffield and had a friend in common with sarah! v bizarre!

oki doki... love to you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxx