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. . . and today was that day. Although it was a pretty weak effort on the weathers part, more of a dribble I would say! So we are now in Budapest, on our last day no less. Tomorrow evening we leave for Krakow in Poland, arriving at about 5am. Not so much of a sleeper train as an annoyance! Fortunately the hostel in Krakow is letting us check in 7 hours early without paying for the night - awesome!

Today we have mostly been pottering around Buda having looked at Pest on Friday and Saturday. We shall hopefully fit in a fair bit more sightseeing tomorrow! In other news we've just uploaded photos from Bratislava, they're listed under Slovakia so why not take a look! Budapest photos should appear in the next few days possibly although we have quite a lot planned for Krakow.

Hello and welcome to all our new members, it seems certain family members have been putting the word out! Dani and I are both having an awesome time and hope you are all enjoying the site. Thats all for now boys and girls, catch you again soon lots of love xx

After another busy term, we've eventually hit Easter. We're actually half way through the break at this point and have alredy spent the last week decorating the stairs and landing before coming away to Cornwall with mum. The weather this spring has been less than impressive so far with the "Beast from the East" weather just a few short weeks ago dumping snow everywhere. On the plus side it did reward us with a snow day, although in our case it was actually a "frozen pipe day", with the water pipes frozen leading to a lack of water across the school site. With all this in mind we weren't suprised to see the weather reports for this week predicting cloudy days and light rain. We arrived yesterday to Brook Cottage, our home for the week. It's in Carpis Bay which is just a short distance out of St Ives and is very nicely appointed with 3 bedrooms, a fully equiped kitchen and a games room including darts, table football and a table tennis table. Even better there was a welcome basket when we arrived with lots of essentials including tea bags, coffee, milk, some biscuits, a box of celebrations and a bottle of wine! 

Today, we had a wander around St. Ives. The weather was amazing with bright sunshine and blue skies. St. Ives looked as beautiful as usual in the sunshine with clear blue water and sandy beaches. We stopped for some lunch in Olives Tea Room where I had my first Cornish cream tea of the week. Dani had some coffee cake whilst mum had a quiche and salad. It was all very tasty and we left feeling very full up.

We finished off the day heading for Godrevy National Trust car park in Gwithian, but unfortunately arrived to find it full with the top car park seemingly closed. We found a place to park a little further along the road and headed up the path to look out to sea, there were no seals sadly but still quite a view. 

Here's hoping the weather continues a bit longer ...  

Hello everyone,

Its official, we have left the country. We are sat here in Naples on day two of our big europe adventure. Day one went off to a bad start with a delayed flight - we sat on the tarmac at East Midlands Airport for an extra hour and a half because the pilot was unhappy with the paper work apparently! That could have been an extra hour and a half in bed, which would have been nice given we got up at 3am, but nevermind!

We walked out of the airport in Rome to find we were surrounded by armed police and army with a couple of fire engines chucked into boot. Having waited around for about 40 minutes and heard a very loud bang possibly gun shot, the authorities dispersed and we got ourselves a bus!Long story short about 3 hours later (including an hour and a half wandering without a map before conceeding and buying one) we arrived at Hostel 1 (Gullivers House). Unfortunately our one night booking had been cancelled and thus we ended up at the Roma Inn - seemingly a work in progress given the bare wires and workmen.

Today is an awesome day by comparison - very little carrying of heavy bag - living the dream! Train and Metro and a local with dog (that spoke no English - the man not the dog) got us to our destination at La Controra in super quick time. It is really quite tasty - and breakfast is included ;-). Not sure what's happening tomorow - possibly Pompeii - tell you next time I guess!