Europe!

Hey guys,

We're in Europe! We didn't bring Al's laptop so haven't been able to write a blog post in a while. Since the last post, Al and I spent a few days checking out London, which is a cool city. As all good Australians should do, we went to visit the Queen.

We took a few trains to somewhere and first dropped in on Big Ben, he was welcoming and allowed us to a take a few photos. Unfortunately we were cheap and bought a camera memory card from ebay and all the photos we have taken since our last blog post are corrupted! Whoo China! A blog without photos is pretty boring so I'll steal a few from Google. Here is a photo we took of Big Ben:


We left at 11:13 AM and headed for Buckingham Palace to see if the Queen was up for a cup of tea or J-Bomb or whatever. Disappointingly, when we got there she had about 500 other visitors which must have freaked her out a bit so she hired some bouncers to stand out the front and ensure people can't get in. Believe it or not, her bouncers actually do less work than Australian council workers!

Upset that we weren't able to catch up with the Queen we thought we'd have a look at her garden where we were told she walks her dogs from time to time. Dogs in London are bizarre man, they climb trees and eat nuts but they were very tame which allowed us to get a few nice photos.

Then we went to Trafalgar square and that was a bit boring and so was the rest of our time in London until we got to Standsted airport ready to fly to Poland. We caught up with some friends from Townsville, Steph and Marissa and Nicole, and a girl from Melbourne, Laura. Then we jumped on the worst plane anyone can ever be unfortunate enough to ride. It was a ryanair plane, I think maybe a 737 that seemed as though they had forced double the amount of seats that are supposed to be in that type of plane. It was a shitty flight but we landed in Krakow a few hours later.

Krakow the most beautiful city I've ever seen. It looks like this all over the city:

Seriously though, the most beautiful women I have seen in my life (except my mother and any past girlfriends reading this). The bars in Krakow are really cool too, they're mostly underground and a bit hidden away but we found some real gems.

We did a tour of Auschwitz concentration camp, which was quite confronting but I still recommend it. I got heaps of great photos which made me even happier when I found out that the memory card didn't work! Also we checked out the Salt Mine which is quite far underground, so it's a great trip if you get a bit of the claustrophobia like ol' Danny boy. You can lick the walls there, which we did, and taste salt. Then you can consider how many other people have licked that wall and taste regret.

After a few days we took a train to Prague in Czech Republic. Prague is full of old churches and beautiful buildings. You can google image search if yourself if you want to see what it looks like. After a night in Prague we took a train to a small town with an unpronounceable name about an hour away. Here in this little town, we caught up with a friend of Marissa's who took us to stay his beautiful chateau. If you're ever in Czech republic, definitely see if you can stay here:

http://www.zamek-hostacov.com/

We lived like freaking kings man. One night, just before we all headed off for bed, in a freaky old dark castle, our host was nice enough to tell us a story about the chateau. Apparently when they were renovating in the 18th centurary, they found a body that had been walled in just above our room. How exciting! Night guys!

After a few days, the group split up and Al and I grabbed a train to Hamburg, Germany. The ladies in our cabin spoke rapid fire German to each other from jumping on the train to their station, which was a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes. This is an increbile feat, god only knows what they were talking about. Six or so hours later, we were in Hamburg getting picked up by a German friend of ours who couch surfed with us in Brisbane. Here are some photos of what every shop looks like in Hamburg:

After a night of heavy drinking in Hamburg, we drove in a sweet convertible to Osnabrueck. Here's a photo of Al and the two Lena's looking cool as:

And just to prove we were being sufficiently annoying in the car, here is a video I took (sorry had to take it down it exceeded my upload quota):

Once in Osnabreuck, we decided it was time to get drunk. So we went to a local club which was having a 90's theme night. I know this sounds weird, but it was in the toilets in the club that the highlight of my European trip so far took place. I went in and this guy spoke loud German at me for a little while. I said I was Australian and only spoke english and he said this to me (add german accent): "I vas just telling you about deese toilets. There are three urinals on the left, and two cubicles on the right so if you want to make big ones or small ones it's up to you".

Since then all we've done is have hangovers which is nice.

Ok, that's our trip so far, we're going to get some dinner.

Bye.

Dan and Al