Atti and Fi's Eurotrip

2010-01-21T03:11:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I've wrote in here but I thought I would write a few dibs and dabs of what we've been up to since our move to Oxford in the UK 2008.

After our trip to Paris we decided on one more trip to Germany for a few days in August as it was also Att's dad's 60th birthday.

Att had some work to do in Berlin for one of the days so his dad and I went into the city and looked around at some of the touristy things again like the Fernsehturm, Unter den Linden, Brandenburger Tor, Rathaus, Alexanderplatz and the Reichstag.

Hier bin ich zum Brandenburger Tor! :D

The Louvre

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Also didnt have time to go inside :( takes a few hours and we had to keep movin...

Eiffel Tower

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Unfortunately didnt get the chance to go up as we were short of time and there was a pretty long que!

Us Paris

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champagne & food!

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We went to Paris a few days ago for the wk end! Had a really nice time but felt like a fatty eating all the food we ate! Att's aunt had lots of food waiting for us when we arrived and champagne :P was very nice!

Paris I

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On the train...

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We had some free tickets for the train so the following wk we went to Edinburgh for the wk end. It was so far! About 7 hrs on the train with the stop in Birmingham and a bit of waiting in between trains.

Att and I went on a Scotch Whiskey Tour which was fun. Then we just walked around the city. Would've like to have seen more of Scotland, loved their accents there and think further north would be really pretty to see. I think we'll make another trip up and see Inverness as my mum and Ron keep raving about it!

The following wk after that we went to Nottingham and then Birmingham the wk after that.

We left a bit too late to go to Nottingham so we didnt get to see much there (really wanted to see Sherwood Forest and go on a Robin Hood tour)

Birmingham was great (Nic's suggestion) we went shopping :P and saw a movie. Cinema is almost the same size as the piggery (with the moo cow chairs) in Byron!

Nottingham

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On the train...

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Edinburgh-Scotland

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Stonehenge, Bath and the Cotswolds

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On our first wk end in the Uk, mumsie and Ron happened to be in the same part of the world and came and stayed with us for a few days in Oxford and of course we went away for the wk end to see some sights. We ended up going to Stonehenge, Bath, the Cotswolds, Cardiff-Wales, Southampton and Marlborough. Was a great week end and also a bit tiring being in the car alot! My fave places were the Cotswolds and Bath..very pretty!

(Its a shame you cant go closer at Stonehenge, we didnt want to pay to get in so we just tooks pics beyond the fence..I think it looks way more impressive in pics than in real life)

Oxford

2008-08-14T04:54:00.000-07:00

After another yr we find ourselves back on the other side of the world :P and who would've guessed the UK!

Sydney road trip

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B & W vid Prague

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Atti & Fi- B&W

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Fi-B&W

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Prague

2007-08-26T06:01:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to Prague for the day! Its great because it's only 1 1/2 hrs from Dresden by car :P...

It was a great day for sight seeing so we walked around the city and took soooooooo0000000000000 many pics!!!! It's a really cool city, beautiful down by the river, lots of cafes, Museums and Art Gallery's, plenty of churches, music, theres so many things to do there and plenty of ppl around to create the atmosphere!

After walking for the pretty much whole day till about 9pm, we were pretty stuffed!

I really liked the pl and would definitely go back for another visit someday!

Red Bull Air Race!

2007-08-21T03:48:00.000-07:00

We went to the Red Bull Air Race yesterday in Budapest and it was awesome!!!!!! Watching them fly through the markers at such a fast speed was so crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peter the Hungarian didnt win :( he was definitely the high light of the race, coz when he flew everyone esp the commentator was cheering him on, you couldnt help but get caught up in the excitment!!! Its definitely something I would go to again :P

Swimming in clothes!

2007-08-20T13:27:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was a really HOT day in Hungary, well for me it was anyway! I forgot my swimmers in Germany and the water in the pool was sooooooooooooo nice I had to go in, so....I went in with my clothes on!!! The boys wouldnt join me because 26 degrees is way too cold for them, what wuss's huh? Instead they wanted me to entertain them which involved alot of bomb diving and requests to lose the top! Boys!

Atti & Fi @ Moe's

2007-08-17T07:24:00.000-07:00

Here we are today chilling at Moe's about to join Homer and Barney for a brewsky!

Cinema size Pepsi!

2007-08-17T07:16:00.000-07:00

Now thats a LARGE size Pepsi! This was Attila's (I ordered the sml which was more like a med size) he managed to drink the whole thing and not even have to get up and go during the movie...we had to do about 3 toilet stops from the cinema to home tho :P

Me

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Me standing above Attila (and pretending to fly) while he was laying down on the grass taking shots of me from the ground.

Berlin

2007-08-17T06:42:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we drove to Berlin. The car broke down when we got to the city and it was raining and we had to jump out of the car and push it to the side of the road!!!!!!!!

Attila managed to get it to start after wacking one of the battery connections (this is what they call the russian way of fixing things, just wack on it with something and it works again haha)

As soon as we parked the car we went and caught the train to Alexander Platz and were going to go up the Tv Tower (in the pic, smack bang center-its about 200m high and has a restaurant up there that revolves and has an amazing view apparently!) but the line up was so long so we barred that and headed to the Postdamer Platz.

The rain stopped and it started to clear up when we got to Postdamer Platz :P so we walked around and got to bits of the Berlin Wall. (the pic of me with the angry face-the side I am on there was the eastern side of Berlin)

We followed the wall till we got to Brandenburger Tor (Top middle and Middle left in pic) and then we checked out the Reichstag (Top right and Middle bottom in pic) before making our way back to Postdamer Platz.

Before we left for home we caught the Simpsons movie :P there was a film museum and an Imax theater in the Postdamer Platz so we wanted to go have a look if anything was on and there was also a cinema in there and the Simpsons happened to be showing so we went and watched it! =)

Ice cream!

2007-08-14T06:41:00.000-07:00

Uta said we had to go to this Ice cream place in Weimar, Cafe Venezia because they have the BEST ice creams. So after Buchenwald, we went there.

Attila got the tiramisu, Uta got the yoghurt with strawberries and I got After Eight (or in Oz after dinner mint).

They were massive and we both felt a bit sickly afterwards!!!!!!!!!

Weimar

2007-08-14T06:10:00.000-07:00

A few days ago we went to Weimar for the wk end, which is about 2 hours drive from Dresden. Attila's mum Uta, is from there so on Sat night we had dinner with the family (all of his mum's sisters, brother and their father) we had yummy bbq bratwurst :P

The next day we went to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. It was very disturbing and upsetting. Seeing some of the rooms in the crematorium sent chills up my spine as did the photos of the prisoners...

2 examples:

There was a medical room (or pretend medical rm). They would lead the prisoners into this room that looked to be a medical room where they check your sight, height or weight etc..and in the corner where they check your height, little did the prisoners know that there was a hidden rm directly behind the height measurer. The guards would place there gun through the gap where the height measurer slid up and down and shoot them as they were pretending to measure them.

Then outside the court yard of the Crematorium there were some steps that led down into another horrible room. I thought it was a gas chamber until I saw all the hooks high on the walls and read that the prisoners were strangled on the hooks.

Then the photos in the art exhibition just made the whole scene more horrific. What we think it might of been like was probably nothing to how bad it actually was in there...just un-imaginable

Markets

2007-08-07T11:12:00.000-07:00

A few days before we left Hungary (for Germany again ) we went to some markets in Budapest. ^ This is wat it looked liked, pretty swish I say!!!

It was 3 levels so when we ended up the top last we had some yummmmmmmmmmmmmy langos!!!!!!!

Vidám Park

2007-08-01T04:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to Vidám Park. A Fun fair or Theme park in Budapest!

It was so much fun going on all the rides, we started off with the bumper cars then watched Mariko go on some of the lil kiddies rides.

Attila and I then went off on our own for half an hr and went on the newer rollercoaster with the loop. It was Attila's first loop rollercoaster to go on so he was all excited and I was pretty excited too, I love rollercoasters!

Even the old old old rollercoaster built in 1906 was something we had to go on before we left. The photo in the top left is the track! It was still cool, even though it was sooooooooooooooooooo old and had no loop. It still had some good drops too..gotta love those good drops!

Budapest Zoo

2007-07-30T11:08:00.000-07:00

It was another nice hot day so yesterday we went to the Budapest Zoo! It was cool seeing all the animals esp when you have a little one with you (Mariko)...

My fave animal was the little monkey, he was an entertaining little fella! We were still inside an enclosure but there was no cage between the lil dude and the ppl!

The Blacktail prairie dog's were really cute too!!!

Hot day, Cold swim

2007-07-30T10:40:00.000-07:00

It was also sooooooooooo hot on Saturday that it called for a swim! After Ikea we came hm and jumped straight in the pool! We ate our ice creams in there too =) Attila also had his brewsky while floating in his blow up chair.

Mariko

2007-07-30T10:29:00.000-07:00

The second day in Hungary we went to Ikea to get some mosquito nets!!!

We went and had some lunch at their little cafe there and Attila's little cute cousin Mariko had a drink fest and drank about 4 cups of juice (not bad for a little 2 1/2 yr old)...we kept giving her more straws to drink out of and Attila got the camera out just as it was dripping everywhere :P

Wien (Vienna)

2007-07-30T09:39:00.000-07:00

We didnt take that many pictures when we got to Wien! We were there for one night and one day and walked around for most of the day looking at sights in the city (with in the ring)

We made the time to go to the famous Hotel Sacher, where they make the worlds famous Sachertorte!

I am the biggest fan of chocolate and chocolate cake so I had high expectations and unfortunately I didnt like it. It had a strange taste to me, it was real tangy and I thought it would be like a rich moist chocolate mud cake :( ohwell at least I can say I tried it..

It wasnt cheap though, we ordered 2 sachertorte, 1 chocolate shake and a hot chocolate and it came to about Au $30. I dont think it will be something I will have again...

Neuschwanstein Panorama

2007-07-30T09:28:00.000-07:00

Another photo of Neuschwanstein and the beautiful panorama view from Neuschwanstein that Attila captured.

It really looks like something from a fairy tale doesnt it? No wonder they used it in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and as inspiration for Walt Disneys Cinderella Castle :P

Aussie Bars

2007-07-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

We also came across a Ned Kelly Australian Bar in Munich!!!!

It's so funny to come across them, we've seen a few Australian Bars in Germany already.

The bar was full of Oz memorabilia, even the coasters had koalas and kangaroos on them AND they even had a few Aussie beers (VB, Carlton Cold, Crown Lager, Fosters) Attila was so ready for his VB, but they ran out!!!! He was devo and had to settle for a Carlton Cold.

It was a great little place, made me think of hm and feel proud to be an Aussie :P

Munich

2007-07-29T11:11:00.000-07:00

After Sweiz we went back to Munich and stayed there for a few days with Attila's buddy Marcus. He took us to a few places in the city during the time we were there...

We went to a big beer garden (where I'm holding the massive jug of beer and pretending it's mine :P) we stayed there and chilled for an hour or two listening to the band and then catching up with Mike who studied at SAE with Attila.

We also climbed up the famous "Old Peter" church (the pic where we look like we could be in a cage, top right and the two nxt to that one!) I was SO out of breath climbing all those steps and then when we got to the top I was a bit freaked out as it was about 90 meters high, u stepped outside and it was just a ledge that went out and around the church and had that cage like bar around it. The boys didnt know how freaked out I was!!

We caught an english movie (I think they show these in germany once a day) as one of the days there was rainy and miserable.

Then the rest of the time we ate and ate and ate =) had to try some traditional Bavarian food! I'll say it again and again, these Germans know how to cook and I'll definitely miss their food when we return home :P

Zurich (Switzerland)

2007-07-28T09:40:00.000-07:00

We decided to go to Sweiz last Sat so we took the train from Dresden to Zurich (with a 1 hr stop in Munich). It took us about 11 hours of travel so we were pretty tired when we arrived!

I got Attila onto the Da Vinci Code on our stop at Munich as those first few hrs got a bit boring, so we thought it would be a good time filler to get some books for the last leg..I continued with a series by Jean M Auel that I was reading a few mths ago. (Attila doesn't even read books but he's now hooked and he's more than half way through :P)

Our train back to Munich the next day was at 6:30pm so we really only had a few hrs to run around Zurich. We decided to do a 4 hr organised tour, instead of exhausting ourselves walking around everywhere.

It was really good cause not only do you see the most important things and learn a bit more about the country, the city and its history, majority of the time ur sitting down on the bus which is what we like :P :P :P I know we are a tad bit lazy.

It must be said Switzerland=THE BEST Chocolate, Milk and Cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-07-26T04:39:00.000-07:00

Just a quick entry from me (Attila) since Fi is reading her book and I'm computer buzi... We went to Neuschwanstein castle but didn't get in (would've been hours and hours of waiting) so we went to the lookout and walked down the hill before we got some food in a nice little restaurant far away from the tourist madness. (see apple strudel, above :D )

I hope Fi will blog about Switzerland and all that now that the pics are on her laptop. Today, we'll go to Vienna. It'll be fairly late so we won't be able to have a look around there today, but hopefully tomorrow.

Attila's Panorama

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At the Fortress

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Our Kodak moments at the Fortress..

Festungs Königstein

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Yesterday we went to Festungs Königstein which is about 30km south-east of Dresden near the Czech border.

The fortress was built in the 13th century then rebuilt and improved in later periods. Sitting atop a hill about 240m above the River Elbe, you can see from the pic it has awesome views of the Sächsische Schweiz.

The grounds of the fortress house Europe's biggest open-air military history museum.

We spent a few hours walking around with our handy audio aid, spoken by a nice old British chap named Jonathon, who filled us in on all the histrory of all the different buildings within the Fortress.

The view was stunning, it was really interesting seeing all the history, and the 150m well was very impressive.

Computer buzi

2007-07-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

Yes I am becoming Computer buzi. In Hungarian, buzi means gay/nerd. This is me today, yesterday and yeah just about everyday when I have free time..which is just about everyday :)

Thats holidays for you!

Atti's Photgraphy skills

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..after a few beers, pizza and feigling (a shot of sweet fig with vodka) =P

Happy Atti

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...after a nice cold brewski!

Fi's photography skills

2007-07-16T10:50:00.000-07:00

Attila reckons this pic would have been good if it wasnt centered because symmetery doesnt work in photography... :( I was deeply cut...

This was taking in the car at the traffic lights on the way to Peter pumpkin eater's pl just as the sun was setting!

I think it looks gooood! Considering I only had 3 secs before the lights changed!

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As you can see by the look on the boys faces, there wasnt much talent down by the lake

Wake Boarding

2007-07-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went down to the lake to watch some wake boarding! It was busy down there for it was another (almost) 40 degree day!!!

We've both never seen anything like it! As you can see from the pics it was a huge lake. They had all these lines that ran through and around the lake and a few little ramps in the water to jump off for the wake boarding! You just have to hold on..

Apparently if it's really busy and you pay for an hour, if you let go, you have to swim back and wait in line for the next avail and sometimes you only end up with 10 mins if it's really busy, if it's only one lap your doing and you fall off, you dont get to jump back on! Not very fair is it :P

The water was freezing so Attila didnt wanna jump in...I could've but didnt wanna go in there on my own :P yeah I'm a wuss!

The Austrians [it got deleted :( ]

2007-07-16T09:51:00.000-07:00

This is meant to be back where the schintzel pic is...for some reason it got deleted!

So by the time we got to Flo's Place in Austria, we were starving!!!!!!

Attila as usual ordered everyone around to make him his schnitzel :P It was well worth the wait! Those boys make the best schnitzel in the whole wide world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our last schnitzel party with the Austrians was December last in Sunrise! We have missed their schnitzel...and them too!!

The weather during our short stay was freezing, rainy and miserable and it was a shame we couldnt stay longer to check out more of Austria (or little Germany as Attila calls it :P)

Hopefully we can make it for the party on the 27th otherwise we'll see them again before the red bull race!!!!!! (and maybe Oz if they come back!!!!!)

The cheese

2007-07-15T02:54:00.000-07:00

This cheese is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good, you put it in the oven and when it's ready you dip your bread into the melted cheese, it kinda tastes like camembert but warm. Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy!

Beach Bar!

2007-07-15T02:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a stinker hot day! We went for a walk down by the river (so romantic) with Fi whinging an whinning about the heat, the bugs, the itchy grass..yeah not so romantic!

We then went near the city and went to meet up with Peter at the beach bar thingy! It was cool!!!!!!! It was HOT, they had sand, they had beach chairs, they had a bar, they had bratwurst! Couldnt ask for anything more!

Dresden @ night!

2007-07-12T15:49:00.000-07:00

This was when we went to the concert to see Roger Cicero, in Dresden, by the river with that back drop. Pretty impressive I say! What do you think? What a spot to see a band or a movie huh?? Very very nice... :)

It was a really good show, was all in German but I enjoyed it still :P I knew one of their songs from Peter's myspace profile!!

Attila has more pics in his gallery on his website if ya'll wanna have a peek!

Bar woman!

2007-07-12T15:34:00.000-07:00

The video I know didnt turn out very well! So here's a pic of me in the bar, making my "Prinz Cocktail".

Me as a German Bar Bitch

2007-07-12T06:46:00.001-07:00

Last night we went to Prinz Bar in Dresden Neustadt and the owner (Andreas) made me make my own cocktail.

Schnitzel!

2007-07-11T05:26:00.000-07:00

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Schnitzel!!!!

Nyugati Pályaudvar

2007-07-11T03:02:00.000-07:00

Yes this is inside the Mc Donalds at
Nyugati Pályaudvar or West Station in Budapest! Swish ey!

If you have to go to the toilet you have to pay 50 Ft which is 32 cents!!!!

More pics of Budapest

2007-07-11T02:54:00.000-07:00

So here are more pics of the city (or us) on our second last day in Hungary. It was the most pefect day for sight seeing because it was sunny, but there was a bit of a wind so it wasnt tooooo hot!

We walked around and caught a few trams and buses before splitting up.

Peter went off to see his friend Coco and Attila wanted to take me to the best Maccers in the whole wide world (apparently).

It was very swish in there for a Mc Donalds! Never seen one so nice before and the meal was pretty good and filling, usually we both (or should I say everyone?) feel pretty sick in the tummy after eating Maccers but we both felt pretty good! I would put it on a must do if you go to Hungary.

Random Loner Chair

2007-07-08T06:51:00.000-07:00

Anyone by themselves keen to sit on (facing a strip of swish cafe's and restaurants) a random loner chair? :P

THE ACS BRO'S

2007-07-08T06:28:00.000-07:00

Boys will be boys!!

Mátyás templom

2007-07-08T05:43:00.000-07:00

These nite pics were taken at Mátyás templom, which is in the old part of the city of Budapest!

The photo of the bridge is the area where they will hold the Red Bull Race at the end of August and the planes will fly above and below that bridge and do all sorts of tricky stuff!

This is the city of bugs and mozzies at night I tell you!!!!!

@ the Acs Residence (Szigetszentmiklos)

2007-07-06T08:56:00.000-07:00

HUNGARY=CHILLIN'

Road Trip (Germany to Hungary)

2007-07-06T08:21:00.000-07:00

Fi Counted about a dozen of those evil looking Strawberry Signs. ^

our trip.

Yes that drive was the Road Trip from Dresden which took us about 7-8hrs with only 2 very short stops!!!!

Attila drove all the way the CHAMPION of CHAMPS...

We got there just as darkness set in which was good timing coz the car lights were soooooooooooooooooooooooo dim! You could barely see them shine on the road or even on the car infront you. Yeah just a tad bit dangerous!

Dresden, Germany

2007-07-06T07:37:00.000-07:00

So it's meant to be summer in Europe right now and everywhere we go we seem to bring the cooler weather with us!! It's jumpers and jeans all round...

Attila "Germany is AWESOME just like me, and the SAUSAGES are Mmmmmmmmmmmm, and the BEER is cheap"

Fi "Germany has the bessssssssssssssssssssstest FOOD and BEVERAGES in the whole wide world mannnnnn"

Dresden being the only place we stayed before our next country, has BIG gold stars for Knob (Fi), not just for the Food and Bev but because it's very pretty and chilled out, just like home. Just look at those pics!

Knob's FAVE FOOD tasted in German Land:

Fleischsalat (Meat Salad)
Rindsroulade (Meat Roll thingy with stuffing and gravy)
Yogurette (Choc covered yoghurt)
Bratwurst (Self explanatory)
Currywurst (Self explanatory)
Sojanka (Russian Soup) Fi's bestest tasting soup ever!!
Brennnesselkaese (Cheese with herbs)

London, UK

2007-07-06T05:46:00.000-07:00

We arrived in London on Thurs the 21/06/07. After a long ass flight, we were pretty knackered! The trains and dragging our luggage around London didnt make things any better.

People say you either LOVE London or HATE London!

I think we both leaned more toward the hate because it was so damn expensive that it made it, in the end, almost un-enjoyable..

After doing a few touristy things here and there and seeing the concert (Aerosmith) for which was the main reason we came to London, we were ready to go on to German land!

I must admit we did have some fun in London...it wasnt all that bad but we both don't want to fly out of there again and have to lugg around all our crap again...