European Ecstasy

European Ecstasy


Having now travelled through Europe I thought it fitting to write a small list linking to the articles of the places we've been to (and a few bonus extras!)


Location: Europe

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Adventures in Asia: Hong Kong, People, Parents and Pabulum

Image
Hong Kong, People, Parents and Pabulum In case your interested: We did have further adventures in Asia than we write about in this short series. We also went to Japan, which is in Asia but we've already mentioned that you can read about it here and here . We also had a brief taste in Turkey which can be read about here .  This is not quite the scenic location that we thought it would be from all the history books, and old photographs and tales from relatives. Hong Kong is an expensive place to visit their culture has British over tones. But is largely a place for shipments and barges. There are rather a lot of tall tower blocks in Hong Kong, which is something to do with the immigration of the Chinese and other countries that fled there during their countries tribulations. At that time Hong Kong had a help the immigrant attitude and took in, housed and gave jobs till so many people immigrated that it was toppling the economy and new measures had to be brought in. I can...
Read more

Adventures in Asia: Xian, Medusa's favourite place

Image
Medusa's Favourite Place The South Gate to Xi'an's City Wall We got on the train from Chengdu Station to leave for Xi’an. Chengdu station is a ginormous complex on the east side of the city (there are four stations in total, one on each cardinal point). It is best described as an airport terminal as there are so many platforms in which to take off from that it is very easy to be overwhelmed. Dad and I queued for the tickets in a hall crammed full of people. One man tried to push into the line (as queueing is very different in China from England, dad kept comparing it more to rugby) and then there was a woman in the queue who literally went for him screaming no in his face while he was explaining his hurry until he moved away. We finally got on the train and were on our way to the wonders of Xi’an.                  Bell Tower in Xi'an Upon arrival we made our way to our accommodation which w...
Read more

75 things that we've learnt while travelling

Image
So everyone talks about travel being an amazing opportunity to see and learn more about the world and all the wonderful things it has to offer. Food 1. Ron is the Spanish word for rum This really surprised me, but mostly because the Harry Potter books must read really differently in Spanish Book: And then Harry got into the car with Ron Spanish Reader: yep Book: And the car started to fly Spanish Reader: Obviously Book: And they crashed the car into the tree Spanish Reader: Well that's quite common with Ron and driving 2. Papaya tastes yucky, especially when you think it's orange juice So bad! 3. Most Mexican food isn't Mexican By this I mean that everything you think of as Mexican food isn't really. Chile Con Carne for example is actually Texan. Although we did have Burritos and Quesadillas which were really good. 4. Burek is akin to Mana  Unlike Papaya, so good! Burek is meat, cheese or vegetables wrapped in pastry and then eaten, it's...
Read more