BIG CHURCHES, LITTLE FRANCES AND HOSPITAL CELLARS

13th August, 2010 by Dave Prentis

Caught the train from Lucerne back to France to a city called Strasbourg, which sits right on the border with Germany. Again I took out my trusty Google Map and followed it to my hotel. Hotel was only about 300m from the station, 28 euros a night, free wifi and walking distance to the city […]



KRONENBOURG BREWERY

11th August, 2010 by Dave Prentis

Drank a few of these and then a few more (im quite popular as you can see by the empty chairs) France is famous for its wines, but Strasbourg being right on the border with Germany has had some of their beer influences woft over. Strasbourg is home to a beer company called ‘Kronenbourg’ which […]



PETIT FRANCE

10th August, 2010 by Dave Prentis

A really beautiful part of Strasbourg is called ‘Petit France’, where a few canals split the streets and there are old school wooden buildings towering over the streets.



SONGS OF THE TRIP

10th August, 2010 by Dave Prentis

When certain songs come on the radio or my ipod they trigger memories of parts of overseas trips. For example on Contiki in 2007 they played Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Take me out’ as the first song on the bus every single morning. So whenever that song comes on im always taken back to the time on […]



CHAPEL BRIDGE. LION. OLD TOWN. PILATUS. TRANSPORT.

10th August, 2010 by Dave Prentis

Chapel Bridge and water tower, supposedly Switzerland’s most photographed thing It’s always a sad day when you have to say goodbye to Lauterbrunnen, but today it was made slightly easier as it was raining, and being here for so long I can always come back later. Hopped on the train to Interlaken and then it […]