Much Ablog About Nothing: Now its time for travelling!!

Gruezi - its Ness here!

Well, I have now finished work! It's been an amazing experience working here; long and busy but worth it. I've helped get our Europe office up and running and have handed over the reigns to my replacement Mersiha, who will now run the show. Good luck Mersiha!!

So after 4 months, our trip here is nearly over. Though we still have a couple of weeks travelling - well we're making the most of this trip before coming back home! As we may not have access to internet over the next couple of weeks, here's a quick rundown of our trip.

On Wednesday, we fly to Edinburgh (well, via Dusseldorf and Stansted, but eventually into Edinburgh) to visit our friends Darko and Jess for a few days. The Edinburgh Festival is currently on which is great. We'll be fitting in as much sightseeing and festival you possibly can in 2 days.

Then on Saturday (18 AUG), we fly to Budapest to start our trip round Eastern Europe - travelling on one of the coach tours Scenic operates. We overnight in Budapest before meeting the group Sunday morning and travelling to Krakow. Theres only 16 people on the tour, including us, so its a good small group. We spend 2 nights in Krakow and then 2 nights in Warsaw - my mums father was actually Polish so will be interesting to visit this side of my heritage. We will also be visiting Auschwitz - which will be a very hard, moving, sad and a beyond words experience. From Warsaw we go by train to Berlin for 2 nights. Then we travel to Prague for 2 nights and on to Vienna for 1 night, via Cesky Krumlov. So after a whirlwind trip of Eastern Europe, we fly back to Zurich for 1 night before flying HOME! Yes, we finally arrive back in the land of Oz on Friday 31 AUG.

We cant believe how quickly the time has gone. It will be sad to leave, hard to come down and re-adjust once again - but also so good to get home and see you all. So until next time,

Cheers

Ness & Jimi

Note - I added photos below of our trip to Mt Rigi and also the Street Parade that was here on Saturday.

Also, a big shout HELLO to Irene - our wonderful 'Africanbarservicefriendkeeper' at Papa Joes. She's looked after us very very well and even invited us to lunch at her place tomorrow for some traditional African fare.