Arrival I arrive at Keleti station in Budapest, get out some Hungarian Forints and head off to the metro. I don’t get very far as I’m promptly yelled at by a metro machine because I insert a 10,000 HUF note into its slot to buy one x 350 HUF ticket.[…]
The main reason I booked the Hotel Fürstenhof is because it’s right by the Westbahnhof Railway Station. I figured that would come in useful for getting around Vienna, getting out to Schönbrunn Palace and at a pinch, taking a train to Budapest. The first thing we notice about the hotel is that[…]
I’m confident about getting to the Wombats City Hostel in Vienna. A 16 minute journey from the airport on the CAT train and then a couple of stops on the metro. How hard can it be? Turns out I’ve been waaay too confident, and make it to Karlsplatz but get foiled[…]
I’m flying out of Krakow and queuing up, waiting to board the plane. The herding situation brings me uncomfortably back again to Auschwitz, which is still a recent memory (we visited on Saturday, it’s now Monday). Anything relating to queuing, checking documents and protocol at the moment is reminding me[…]
I elected to walk to Zulian Aparthotel from my previous accommodation, a mere 10 minute walk to 44 Dluga Street. It was snowing mildly, so by the time I turned up I was dripping all over the lovely tiled entrance. I apologised to the staff member who let me in[…]
Finding the Hotel MDM is pretty easy, it’s approximately a 5 minute walk from the Metro station Politechnika. You can also reach it by tram number 4 from Stare Miasto. I’d been staying right in the Old Town at the Dream Hostel so the communist era architecture was a slight shock[…]
Arrival I’m unaware when taxiing to Dream Hostel that I seem to have arrived at an inauspicious moment. But I find out soon enough that I have. The taxi driver tells me that 7 years ago on this day (10th April 2010) the Polish president’s plane was (allegedly) shot down by[…]
Arrival After exiting from the Märkisches Museum U-Bahn stop I walk a couple of steps and go into what I think is Derag Livinghotel Berlin-Mitte but which turns out to be the Derag Livinghotel Großer Kurfürst. Doh. Strangely enough they have my name in the system because they are both[…]
Following a 15 hour transit in Kuala Lumpur, six of which I spent at Tune Hotel, I was well and truly ready for the next leg of my flight to Frankfurt flying Vietnam Airlines, and organised (well so I thought). I confidently strode to the departures area of KLIA2 and[…]
I recently had a 15 hour transit in Kuala Lumpur while I waited for a connecting flight to Frankfurt via Vietnam. It was a fiddly time period because the flight from Auckland arrived at 5am and the flight to Frankfurt left at 8pm. So basically I had a whole day[…]