Alison's Adventure

Prague

After bidding farewell to Nick and Tim and the warm Croatian sunshine Sarah and I were off on our own adventure. Stopping initially in picturesque Prague. We stayed here three nights and filled our time with the best beer I’ve ever tasted and endless meals of pork knuckle, roasted duck, dumplings, hearty soups, and pretzels. We were in Heaven. During the day we explored the old town by the Danube River, we walked across the Charles Bridge to the Castle and got stuck with two Irishmen and for the life of us could not understand a word that came out of their mouths’ no matter how hard we tried. We witnessed the medieval astronomical clock that performs every hour on the hour. All in all Prague, its people and it’s food were gorgeous.

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Cesky Kromlov

Following Prague we jumped on a bus and headed south to Cesky Kromlov. We picked this destination based on word of mouth from other travellers that Cesky was where the famous river pub crawl took place. We arrived at our hostel at 11.50am by 12pm we had commenced the pub crawl. Of course it was full of bogan “bus a-about” aussies which initially put a dampner on our expectations but as the day progressed we were quite amused by their company.

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Basically the pub crawl involves a group of willing people, a raft, some spare pocket change for the copious amounts of cheap beer about to be consumed and the less rafting knowledge you have the better the experience. We started at one end of the river after some very brief instructions outlining that the pubs will be situated on the side of the river, when you see one you need to paddle really hard to get over to it otherwise the current will take you down and there’s no turning back, it’s impossible to paddle against the current. Seems easy enough but with a few beers under your belt the task can prove to be quite difficult. Sarah and I opted for the raft with the most male presence we figured that the more man power we had the less paddling we had to do. It turned out to be a very messy day.

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Budapest

From Cesky we hopped on a 7 hour bus ride, and headed to Budapest for three days. Our time was spent wandering the streets and strolling along the Danube. We spent one day at the bath’s which was amazing. The buildings were a canary yellow which was a beautiful contrast against the blue pools. We jumped in and out of 40 degree waters and soaked up some sun and treated ourselves to a massage. That night we embarked on a wine tasting tour with the kids from our hostel and jumped on a boat that sailed down the Danube. We ended up at a club that resembled a jungle inside.

After Budpest we met Nick in Salzburg where he’ll fill you in on.....

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Greece

After Bratislava Sarah and I once again left Nicholas behind and went back to the Mediterranean to soak up the sun in Greece. From Bratislava to Athens and from Athens to our first island Mykonos. Excited about the warm weather we spent the days bathing at the beach and checking out the greasy Greek men. Our hostel had a great pool area with a Dj playing constantly so we spent a lot of time there. Mykonos was okay but it wasn’t great, unfortunately my camera got stolen and the Greek police were fairly incompetent so it put a dampner on things. We did have a funny night that involved a few drinks, a trek over a mountain of rocks to find the night club, not finding the night club but running into five Frenchmen that were not only unable to speak English but were deaf. They asked us to take a photo of them swimming in the dark, we agreed and were shocked when at the last minute they pulled their pants down and we were faced with 5 naked Frenchmen in the middle of nowhere at 2am. They turned out to be really nice guys. Are conversations didn’t really go anywhere, Sarah claimed to know some sign langue and decided to try it out. Her sign langue capabilities were poor and only knew “hi my name’s Sarah” and “do you want to have sex with me”. Two phrases that didn’t come in so handy.

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From Mykonos to Ios, where we finally came to learn what the Greek Islands were all about. Once again we stayed at an awesome hostel and met up with Tim who was friends with some handsome fellows. No words can describe how awesome Ios was but we spent our days hung over at the beach and our nights dancing on bars and tables. It was truely epic and we met some awesome people there.

Santorini was a little less crazy and a little more laid back. We hired quad bikes and cruised the terrain of the Island ending up at some beautiful beaches. Tim, Sarah, Matt and I witnessed some magical sunsets and tasted some delicious Greek meals that were to die for.