20 th of July Montpellier- Barcelona

After a night with almost no sleep at all. I wake up exhausted and ready for Spain. Another boring train ride. At the train station in Barcelona we're trapped we can't find our way out of the station. All the tourist looks confused after a while we find the exit. you have to show your ticket before exit. We walk from the train staion with the map from LP (our guide book). After a lot of walking we finally find a hotel. It's a four star hotel thick walls and aircondition jippiyeah. We're staying for 4 nights so we get a good deal. Las Rambla here we come. Before Las Rambla we make a stop at the tourist information and gets a map of the city. Las Rambla the famous street not that beautiful and very crowded. But at the end of Las Rambla you reach Port Vell and it's really nice.






Before we go to bed we stop by at my favorite coffeechain and drinks frappes. I LIKE it.

19 th of July Montpellier

What a night we're staying at a horrible hotel. No air condition in the rooms and paper walls, not that much sleep at all. We're walking to the train station trying to get tickets to Nimes. But since it's a weekend not that many trains are leaving today so we decide that it's not worth it. Instead we head to the shoppingmall and buys a new memorycard to my camera. After lunch and a new memorycard we're up for a walk in the old quarters. It's such a beautiful town and in every corner you see something interesting. Later in the evening we're having Indian food on silverplates. We sit outside in the narrow streets. Once in a while I have to stand up and move out of the way because cars are passing by. Good night France and good morning Spain.

18 th of July Nice-Nimes

In a rush we're up at the train staion boarding for Nimes. Huge misstake. We forgot all about Tour the Fu..... France. We're changing trains in Marseille what a lovely train station but outside it looks pretty rough. When we reach Nimes we can't find any hotels at all because Tour the France is passing through today. Such a beginners misstake I can't belive it. We head for the next town close by Montpellier. It's late when we arrive, but we walk around for a while and my cameras memory card blinks. No photos today

17 th of July Nice-Cannes and birthdays

Today is my brother's birthday and he get to pick what to do. He pick an excursion to Cannes. Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera. It is a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival.
Fine with me I have never been to Cannes before. Wow we see a lot of huge yatches...as well as nice cars. For lunch he gets McDonald's food a burger. After a very hot day in Cannes we walk back to the train station where we buy some chocolate chip cookies and soda. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear M Happy birthday to you. Later in the evening he gets an ice-cream and dinner at KFC his choice. Tomorrow we're going to Nimes.

16 th of July Paris-Nice

After a really nice breakfast it's time to leave again this time for Nice. My brother's birthday is tomorrow. He wants to see some rich people and nice cars. The metro to the train station is crowded so we got to wait for the next one. But this time we squeeze inside. The train ride to Nice is 6 hours long but it's ok I read my book by Camilla Läckberg. When we arrive in Nice we get help from the tourist office to find a hotel close by the train station. We go for a stoll in the old part and along the beachfront. Then we're heading for dinner. The same restaurant we had dinner at in 2004 almost the same table. After dinner we're having ice-cream at the same place as last time in 2004. It's such a wonderful ice-cream place...A piece of heaven in Nice as well

15 th of July Disney

A day in real Jolly Disney spirit...

14 th of July Bastille Day

Croissants and cafe au lait for breakfast how lovely is that.... We start the day with a visit to Notre Dame. Today it's free entrance because of 17 th of July.



After the visit to Notre Dame we watch all the different aviation of the Patrouille de France flying above us. Then we watch the parade of infantry troops, the motorised troops and so on. On our way wandering we se this cozy bookshop.


Inside the bookstore close to Notre Dame.

Then it's time for a visit to Louvren and Mona Lisa (still looks the same as last time). On the way from Louvren we cross the street and almost get overdriven by the car belonging to Israels prime minister. Some secret agents or whatever it's hurry us across, stupid tourists...
Tomorrow we're going to Disney jippi



outside the Louvre

13 th of July Paris

We start the morning with a huge breakfast buffet before we board the train to Paris. We find a hotel right a head it's easy to find a hotel in Paris without a reservation. The View and the rooms a really nice.


The view from our hotel.


Our room so much better then The asthof Weisses Lamm.


We walk to Sacre Cour and wander around in Montmartre


A romantic resturant in Monmartre. Tomorrow is Bastille day 14 th of July.

12 th of July Stuttgart

Oh my God I wake up and can't move. My whole body is in pain...On the train towards Stuttgart I'm trying hard not to move...Arriving in Stuttgart we find a hotel pretty fast and then we walk around the city for a while. We also buy tickets to Paris with the train leaving tomorrow. Not that much more is happening today.


An exhibition with United Buddy Bears touring the world. 140 bears represent as many countries recogniced by the United Nation. Each bear has been designed by an artist on behalf of his or her native country.

11 th of July Innsbruck

Today we're going to hike in the alps....Hmmm what route should we take many to choose from. Something not that hard, an easy walk for let say 3 hours. We take the furnicular and then the cableway to Zeegrube 1905 m one way of course since we're walking down.



The view is magnificent and the weather is just perfect there is still snow up here. The sun is shining and it's warm.


This is so Austria....







After a while the signs are not that easy to see anymore and we're taking short cuts at least that's what we think. Clock is ticking and my legs and hips start to hurt... At 2 pm in the afternoon we're still walking and still at 3 pm. Then my brother makes us walk down a steep. I can barley walk and there is no turning back. I can't walk upwards. Instead I'm falling on my butt on my knees and hands several meters. And my brother starts shouting stop throwing stones. I get really mad with him like I'm throwing stones I'm trying so hard to surrvive and not get killed.

At 4 pm we're down that mountain my legs is like JELLO. I can't walk on them it's impossible. Back at the hotel I feel the pain in my whole body. My brother takes a shower and some pills. But I'm not. No pills, no shower I don't care anymore and we got to walk up to the train station and buy tickets to Stuttgart that's we're going to tomorrow.



After we bought the train tickets we're having chineese and after that I'm having my shower. Good night no more walks for me ever.....ever...

10 th of July Krankenhaus and Innsbruck

Today we're taking the train to Innsbruck arriving at lunchtime. No we don't arrive at lunch time. My brother get sick on board the train. His arm wents numb and he cant't feel his fingers and his heart is beating very fast. At the next stop we get off the train. We get off in Linz and take a cab to the hospital -Krankenhaus. Wrong hospital we're out taking another cab going to the main hospital. We gets help but it takes a while because of some language problems. Service at hospitals in Austria is pretty good and very fast. The doctor and the assistant takes ECG as well as making an X-ray. It's not a heart attack. It's muscle inflamation. That's why my brothers hand and arm went numb and why it feels arround the heart. He gets some pills and salve and we're off again. Doctors orders is that he should take it easy for a while and get some rest. We don't tell him that we're planning to hike the alps in Innsbruck tomorrow... Celebrating at the train station that it wasn't a heart attac.We do what we love to do eat(lovely thai food). The hospital visit was for free, cause we had our European insurance cards with us. For the first time we're actually used them. Well not me, but my brother. After our detour and lunch we continue and arrives in Innsbruck. We get help from the tourist office. The man working at the office is really annoying but this time I shut up.
Behind the scenes
Me - Is it far away?
Behind the desk - Not as far as you have travelled.
Me - Ok how to we get there. (Annoyed)
Behind the desk - Take bus nr bla bla bla bla It's in the old part of town 3000 years old it's clean and has private bath.
Me thinking - Does it really have a bathroom if its 3000 years old.
We take the bus but it's so close by we could have walked. Idiot at the tourist information
The Gasthof Weisses Lamm look like shit and it's expensive check this out.


It looks like no one cleaned the rooms in 3000 years...


The bedlamp


Viev from the window at the Gasthof



Tirol orchestra


The goolden roof was built by Archduke Friedrich IV in the early 15th century as the residence of the Tirolean sovereigns.

The old town.

9 th of July

Good morning Vienna. At the train station I see some signs that says this way to a B&B. We walk towards that direction and we see it pretty soon. Close by the train station. Great we get a nice room for a great price, HAPPY. After a shower it's time for us to become museum buffs again. We're strolling to the Imperial Palace actually it's the second time I visit the Imperial Palace.


We're walking around in the apartments for Elisabeth (Sisi) and Franz Joseph, the silver collection and the Sisi museum. The Sisi Museum in the Imperial Apartments compares the myth and the facts. Many objects are on show as well as the death mask taken after her assassination. Sisi was stabbed in the heart with a file by a young anarchist named Luigi Lucheni, in an act of propaganda of the deed. We even get to the see the file. Very, very interesting.

From the movie Sissi (Empress Elisabeth)


After all this it's time for guess what a visit to Aida





Burggarten

We also visit the higlight in Vienna Julius Meinl. If you haven´t been there is definitely worth a visit gourmet food from all over the world.

Dinner later in the evening our favourite Indian restaurant in Vienna. Totaly love it. My brother gets some chicken in turmeric (gurkmeja) on his pants turns yellow of the turmeric quite funny...I'm still laughing....I bet he's not...

8 th of July Brasov

We start the morning with a visit to The Black church, Brasovs historic landmark. The church was given its name after disaster struck in 1689. When the Great Fire, set by Hapsburg invaders, leveled most of the town, heavily damaged the church and blackening its walls. So still today the name is The Black church.


Wiev over The Black church. not that black anymore.

After that we buy some fresh fruit and bread and takes the cable car up the mountains sourrounding Brasov (Carpathians, great skiing in the winter). It's really hot up at the top but we walks around for a while and eats our picnic. But then suddenly the weather changes and it gets all dark. We walk very fast back to the cable car and then the thunderstorm catch up with us. When we get back down to the city again we're hiding inside Mc Donalds.


Wiev from the end platform at the cable station overlooking the city.

Brasov also has the longest and narrowest street in Europe


Later on it's pizza time and then we head back to the B&B to pick up the luggage. The train station is not that nice lots of creepy people, that seems interested in us. I'm having a firm grip of my bagpack. This time our compartment for the night looks like this.





During the night we pass campfires with loads of people sleeping and eating around it. Cities that look deserted in the middle of nowhere. To bad I'm to shocked
to take any photos it looks like we're in Asia or Africa...
Tonight I sleep really well and we get to show our passport two times during the night. Next morning we wakes up in Vienna. Good morning Vienna my brohers favourite city.

7 th of July Bran

Today is the day we get it all back...All the bad luck. It start of pretty good. The owner at the B&B makes coffee and then she's off for the bakery to get us some morning pastrys, yummi. After that is when it all starts. First we want to buy train tickets for Vienna. To be able to buy international train tickets in Romania you have to buy them at a special ticket office, not at the train station. You can only buy tickets at the train station the same day you're leaving. So we're going to the office that sells tickets but the adress in the guide book is wrong, nothing there. Instead we have to walk back to the toursit office and ask where it is. It takes us 2
hours to get there because we cant read the F******* map. Finally at the office none of our visa cards works, no connection with the banks in Sweden.
Holy shit what shall we do? But I have already spotted an ATM across the street and there we try again. No it doesn't work, but when I try with my card all over again - IT WORKS. Finally we get our money and can buy tickets for the night train to Vienna. This could have turned out to be a real nightmare, but as always we surrvived... Then we head back to the bus station to catch a bus to the main bus station. Where we catch another bus to Bran and Draculas castle. Draculas castle is not really what I expected it to be its a castle...But we are prepared with garlic, crucifix and holy water..



From within the castle walls.



Later we head back to Brasov for dinner and some rest.