We were staying about 15 mins from the city so we took the train it wasn’t long before we had seen and and smelt Amsterdam. within 200 metres, tulips, clogs, a few sets of lesbos, blue and white china and the smell of green smoke. It was a dull old day and the city looks […]

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We got up early and headed off on our 700 km drive to Amsterdam, we planned a stop along the way at Wolfsburg which was about 200 k out of Berlin. We thought we would need about an hour but we stayed nearly six making it a long day. Wolfsburg is home to Autostadt which […]

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We started off the day with trip into the Sony Centre to upload this website and plan the day but were diverted as one of the train lines were not working due to construction. we ended up at a station a km or so away and noticed a sign to the Berlin technical museum so […]

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Got up today from a decent nights sleep at the fun hotel, the beds were much better than the botels were and the bathroom was modern and not musty. Rocky recons there was something wrong with his bed as it was forcing him to fall out, I recon it was probably more due to his […]

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Started off the day with the lovely ‘buffet ‘breakfast at the Botel, we still haven’t stoped arguing whether the chicken loaf were cheese or cheese slices were chicken. loaf. It looked like chicken but tasted like cheese… who knows but the juice was good probably contained 2% juice and 98% water and probably straight out […]

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We started of the day with a 40 minute drive to the Skoda museum, the road wasn’t too bad there was a highway all the way unlike yesterday. Anyone’s guess what the speed limit was along the motorway, every 100 metres there seemed to be another speed limit with a number anywhere between 50 and […]

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Woke up and got into the lovely Chevy Nabira and headed off towards Prague. There was still a little drizzle from overnight so we decided to keep going instead of doing much in Salzburg, which was really just a half way point for our trip from Venice to Prague. We got to the Czech Republic […]

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We left Venice today for our journey to Salzburg. Venice was an amazing place, it was obviously built before the spirit level was invented and they must have sent all their good concreters to Australia. The Pizza’s were fantastic too but we have just finished off our favorite meal of the whole trip. While on […]

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Today we walked the lanes of Venice and went on a ferry ride to neighbouring islands 

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From Innsbruck it was about a 4 hour drive to Venice passing some spectacular mountains on the way. The roads were fantastic there is really some amazing engineering with tunnels and bridges and a 2 or 3 lane carriage way all the way. There was a toll of about 20 euro but it was well […]

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We started off the morning with a drive and walk around Innsbruck. The first stop was the Olympic ski ramp, which gave us some impressive views of the city. Innsbruck has been the host of 2 winter Olympic Games. It was then into the central area to have a look at some of the historical […]

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