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Berlin

In Berlin the trains run on time, the bikes pass by frequently and the hubs of life and excitement are smattered across the city, usually hidden by a graffittied facade.
Now in cold, wet and windy Edinburgh, balmy Berlin seems like a distant summer holiday.
We stayed at cool and busy Circus Hostel right at Rosenthaler [...]

Krakow

Getting from Budapest to Krakow wasn’t as easy as we thought it’d be. The old-school flickering board announcing all the train departures and arrivals listed trains which should’ve already left. We were told not to worry (I guess this happens all the time in such cities?) so we stood around with some other Aussies [...]

Budapest

Getting public transport from the airport to a new city always gives the most honest and raw perspective. Usually the airport line is the newest and swankiest, but not so in Budapest. The 200 bus dropped us at the metro station blue line and after dragging out luggage up a set of ourdoor stairs we [...]

Music in Paris

Pompidou, Musee d’Orsay, Louvre - done, done and done. Thanks to a professional card I borrowed I was able to zip into each for free and avoid the lines. The Louvre has all the ambience of a Westfield shopping centre these days but those Italian painters and the outside square are still spectacular.
After exiting [...]

Paris in the summer

The sun shines til 10pm. Dinner comes even later. We eat raspberries and cherries in the afternoon. Croissants and baguettes from the boulangerie around the corner in the mornings. Parisians young and old, fashionable and, well, still fashionable, whiz by on bikes and scooters. They sit on cane chairs outside of cafes throughout the days [...]