Hotel Barbarossa Cheb

After a few hours we reached Bayreuth where we picked up Reena, Wilfried's wife and we went to Hof, this is where my grandmother grew up and spent her childhood. Wilfried’s sister still lives in the house so we were able to tour the house and how all the stories my grandmother told me made so much more sense. I had never imagined it to be like this but this is why it was so amazing to see it. Wilfried also took ...

we finally arrive, after twisting jules arm relentlessly, but too late for the bus, cannot wait for two more hours, so we jump in a taxi only to find we have booked ourselves into the gulag, no i mean it. we are staying in prisoner cell block F. we think of crying, but dont want to show fear to the locals.<br><br>we do manage to find a ...

... out back. He tells us he has 2 eagles and 3 hawks. We ask if we can come and see them and take photos and he says yes. We go down and take some photos, they are really big birds. They look very well cared for. They are tethered and the rope is on a long pole so they can go from their perch to their home. How unusual.

... br><br>We have experienced Manitou and the Dead Sea, since we are here, we are going to Karlovy Vary to try out the waters. We have been looking online as to where we can float in the water, but there only seem to be spas who do all kinds of treatment, some with Dr.'s prescriptions. They also drink the water.<br><br>We arrive at the tourist office and ask where we go to float in the water. Well, there isn&#8217;t any ...

Sitting in the living room of the house that will be 'homebase' for the next few months. Weird to think that this time last week we were just pootling around Sydney doing our thing!<br><br>Trip via HongKong was great - 2 nights and two days of shopping overwhelm and yummy food. We managed to cram in quite a bit pulling a marathon 12 hour day seeing the sights. Jarrad had the benefit of my shopping expertise and made some good purchases!<br><br>Arrived in Munich on my ...

... then enjoyed a lunch of duck,dumplings and sweet and sour cabbage. I swear Greece and Czech Republic have the best food in the world. I am going to miss it. We will return tomorrow to Amsterdam to connect with our flight home. We are hoping to make the Anne Frank museum if the lines are not too long.

... where we marvelled at the gorgeous mouth-blown and hand made creations and finally realized the beauty and value of the glasses we had received from Mirek's parents. Despite the high cost, we treated ourselves to a set of glasses like the one's they had gotten us years before and will use and enjoy them even more now. Mirek's extremely generous and sweet Aunt, Uncle and cousin also bought us some so we are looking forward to drinking in style from now on ...

... are flat crisp wafers filled with a hazlenut/sugar flavoring about 10" round. They are exported around the world but here is the only place you can have one fresh hot off the press, so we did, several in fact. (my parents used to buy them for my sisters and I on the promanade, and the same shops still exists) We'll continue with more exploits from Karlovy Vary in the next update. Nashledanow (Goodbye in Czech) Celina and Mirek/Pollos Libres

... London I flew to Stockholm and met up with Pauly, Katie, Kate and Marcus at the bus station. It was awesome seeing them again after such a long time. We soon found out floating hostel for the night and over the next few days we hit the sights and ended up with nine people from Aus cruising the streets. After Stockholm a few of us flew to Copenhagen for ...

This day trip to Karlovy Vary is a must.<br><br>It is such a beautiful city famous for its hot springs. Nice beautiful houses, and the river running through the city makes the place a paradise.<br><br>Don't forget to buy (a rose).....it is about a real flower rose which is left for quite a time in the hot springs and the result is amazing ...