Frankfurt...why am I in Frankfurt??? Shopping!

So we're rounding the bend on the year, the end is insight so in order to celebrate all of our travelling we have decided that instead of sightseeing in the last week of our trip we are going to SHOP! I'm excited, like salivating at the corners of my mouth excited. We've been such good girls and spent very little. We have only paid for one sight seeing attraction in each city (with the exception of Dresden where we paid nothing), and only paid at the most 9 euros (with the exception of a Sound of Music tour in Salzberg which was worth every penny). Every meal we could cook ourselves we have...so now we are going to shop until we drop.

It isn't that we haven't done things, or denied ourselves of things we have wanted to do, it's just that once you've seen about 20 museums or castles you've really seen them all. That being said we did have a wonderful and very educational time in the Museum of Dutch Resistance in Amsterdam, I would recommend that to anyone! Especially Canadians, because as it turns out we are the Dutch saviours! We went to a museum in Brussels that, to be honest I could have taken or left, but I did learn that it used to be surrounded by a wall and I saw over 700 outfits for the Manikin Pis...for those of who don't know it's a statue of a peeing boy. Speaking of museums the train museum in York is awesome! And free, just don't get stuck there for lunch the food is ridiculously expensive. Hamburgh is a pretty city but unfortunately the weather was miserable, my pal had a cold and most of the stuff to do is outside on the water. Dresden was still a little cold, but the sun was out and there were free bikes to be had so off we went, touring a beautiful city, my second most favourite place we have been. Next we went down to Prague which is beautiful and cheap! Bonus! It's a pretty big city when you don't know your way around so we took a nice bus tour got a little history and better oriented. Also because it was so cheap we had to do a little shopping (you would have too!). Our hostel was great, while it was 20 minutes out of the city, there was a tram that went pretty frequently. The place was a great escape from the city, a former boathouse it was right on the water, unfortunately we went to go canoeing on our last day but the guy was closed for the day, instead we had a nice little hike in the surrounding forest. The women who ran the hostel were great. When we arrived they knew who we were and greeted us as we came in, than handed us little welcome packs with some postcards, a pen and a map of prague! Everynight they cooked homemade meals for us, and even vegetarian ones special for my friend and I. They rang a bell and called us all for dinner, calling your name if you lagged behind. When we left they gave us little packs for our train ride, a juice box, apple and a little package of wafer cookies! They were great, and surprisingly the cheapest hostel we have stayed at. We almost changed our plans to stay there!

The train 'adventure' to Fussen was quite a trip and I don't have the energy to go into it now, but one day when I have nothing to do I will, even the thought of it still drains me of every fiber of my being. (It wasn't just that bad, it was worse!)

Fussen was our next destination, and I would have to say that it was the best we've had on our trip. The views were beyond words! Just outside of Fussen is the castle that the Disney castle is based on. Newenstein. Not only is there this castle, there is another one, plus hill mountains, alps and a gorgeous lake. Stunning! On our first day we rented bikes and took them around a lake, which took us into surrounding towns and gave us great views. It was like being in a postcard. The next day we went to the castle and got some more great views. We took a (terrifying) carriage ride up to the castle.

From Fussen we went to Salzberg, which is nice, but coming from Fussen wasn't very impressive. An expensive city, we had to go out of the city to get stunning views. The castle in the city reminded us of Edinburgh castle, so we weren't that impressed. We did however take a very nice Sound of Music tour. Sing along included!!

So now we find ourselves in Frankfurt, ready to shop! I could go on but there are some VERY noisy boys in here driving Mush and I crazy. They seem to think they are the only ones in here or that this room is just for them. They have surround my poor pal.

Quick Update!!!

Just to let you know (whoever you are) that I'm not dead!!


Quick update on our trip, we've left Edinburgh, been through York,(train museum was awesome), London, (Saw Wicked again that was fantastic, again), Brussels (we watched police clean up a jumper off the ground across the street from our hostel). And now we are in Amsterdam, taking in the sites heading off to Hamburgh tomorrow. Oh and my phone got cut off so I have no way of communicating with anyone except for email, when I randomly get a computer! It's been a great time so far! I'm already running out of time on this ancient computer so that will have to be all for now.