Fab window fittings/ornamentations (?) in Prague!

Guess where I went this weekend.... Can't? I'll tell you!

PRAGUE!

Beautiful little city! so close to Budapest yet so vastly different!

Loved the little paved streets (although not heel friendly!), stunning buildings in all their colours!

So yip I went to Budapest!

Great from a historical perspective and yay I can tick it off the list but not so sure I'd rush back there, it seems to still have a wee bit of a war like overhang to it... But the major landmarks are lovely, particualarly my new castle the Fishermans Bastion. LOVED IT. Oh so Disney.

Am off to the lands of Buda & Pest for the weekend! Going to hit the amazing flea market and check out some beautiful buildings!

So exciting!

T R A V E L

Ok while I'm on a role... one more post! Fav images from my Europe travels....

T R A V E L

Oh boy! I think I've caught the travel bug! Where to next?!

Short and sweet the trip was great! Wish I could've typed each day but very limited access to the net which was both shockingly scary and amusing to realise I can live without it for 12 days! (ok I went on it once... but only for 5 minutes! ).

Still catching up on sleep so until I can handle keeping my eyes open long enough here's a piccy of the charming Eiffel tower taken by your's truly!

Warning! there will be excessive posts to follow!

E X P L O R E

That's what I'm doing! yes indeed have finally caught the travel bug, only taken a year of being here! Set off tomorrow at the ungodly hour of 6:30am to join the ranks of the coach tourist.

7 Ccountries, 12 days.

Ready. Set. GO!

Will tell you allllll about it when I return!

(I hope the bus does cool stuff like the one above... though judging by the price it will probably be more like 87 to Wandsworth...)

H E J!

I WENT TO SWEDEN!

Gothenburg City to be exact and I got my very own Dala Horse! (figurine, key chain and tote bag...)

Such a beautiful city and country, very much like New Zealand in the amount of people vs land mass, much fresher and cleaner than London too!

I'd never been on a roller coaster until we went to Liseberg Amusement Park, and I will probably never go on one again. Panic attacks on all three. (yes three! I went on three!). My favourite ride was the one above. Simple, predictable, rotating fun.

We were only there for one night so didn't really get to go around any of the art and design museums but I will be going back there! Stayed with friends so got a less touristy type of look around the place which was so much more interesting.

I love that Sweden is pretty much the design capital of the world -everything is practical but in a modern very designerish way -yes new word can't think of actual words to explain this right now so this will have to do (please view disclaimer to the right of your screen...).

Came across a few illustrations which kept popping up over the city -no idea what they are for or who by, a form of graffiti?

B A T H

Whoops, it's been a while and I've no excuse! However I can now say I've been outside London! okay so it was only to Bath but still I'm starting with the travel... Bath was pretty amazing -as if someone picked up a small part of Rome and accidently dropped it in England. The history and culture of the Roman baths was pretty neat, did spend an hour and a half waiting in line to hit the Thermae Spa but it was worth it for the scented steam rooms -everyone should have a peppermint steam, absolutely beautiful!