GETTING TO EDINBURGH

26th November, 2010 by Dave Prentis

Maisie the crazy cat So it was getting to the stage where I was coming across Europe to reach my final destination of Amsterdam and I was too early. I had about ten or so ‘spare’ days to do something with. Yeah, tough life. I decided to hop across the ocean and visit Scotland and […]



A CATHEDRAL AND SOME CHRISTMAS MARKETS

24th November, 2010 by Dave Prentis

The christmas markets under the cathedral From Hamburg it was off south-west to Cologne. I didn’t really know anything about Cologne, apart from that it has a hektik cathedral, but it was also in the direction I needed to be heading and its serviced by direct high speed ICE trains. Got off the train and […]



REEPERBAHN

21st November, 2010 by Dave Prentis

The entrance to zee ladies of the night On Saturday night Anna said she was going to take me to the ‘Reeperbahn’ as it cannot be missed. The Reeperbahn is a street in the St Pauli district of Hamburg, it is lined with pubs, clubs, sex shops, and contains the city’s red light district. Started […]



HAMBURGER

20th November, 2010 by Dave Prentis

The most awesome street in all of Hamburg After 11 days in Berlin I thought it was time to move on. This time it was up North to Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany and the second largest sea port in Europe. The train from Berlin is direct and its also a high speed […]



APPARENTLY NAKED MEN HANG OUT IN PALACE GARDENS

15th November, 2010 by Dave Prentis

One of the many lakes in Sanssouci Park One of the day trips you can do from Berlin is to a place called Potsdam, or ‘City of Palaces’. NewEurope offer tours there that go for a few hours, but ive had mixed experiences of the day trip style tours that they offer. So I decided […]