Bath is a city in the South West of England. The city is founded around the naturally occurring hot springs at the Roman Baths. The waters from its spring were believed to be a cure for many afflictions.
I stayed at a B&B called Villa Claudia which was owned by a lovely Italian couple who took great care of us and cooked a hearty breakfast each morning.
The first place I ever visited in Europe, outside of the United Kingdom, was Prague in the Czech Republic. I had always seen Europe as an area that I would experience when I had less time available to travel for months on end exploring countries.
I visited Prague for 5 days, I spent most of the tip exploring the city walking around and seeing the sights. All the buildings have amazing architecture, and you walk around the city with your head looking up! I saw the palace and the castle and some beautiful churches with detailed decorations. On one of the nights there I saw the Luxembourg Philamonic Orchestra perform in Prague’s main concert hall. It only cost 15 Euros and we were 7 rows from the front, in England that would probably have cost nearly 75 Euros. Another night we went to see some Jazz which was fun.
The food there was really good, big breakfasts and lots of different types of sausages. The main meal there consists of meat, dumplings and cabbage and was nice. For my last dinner there I had a Czech platter which had 5 different types of meat (rabbit, pork, beef, chicken, duck), 3 types of dumplings and 2 types of cabbage. I think it was meant for at least 2 people but I managed to finish it off! Prague is known for its beer and it was really good and about 1 Euro a pint, mmm!
The clubs are open till 4am there, they play the same sort of music as they do here, I made the most of them on my last night! I picked up some nice black and white photographs and some paintings as souveniers.
Earlier this year I visited the USA for two weeks and took in a whirlwind tour of the east coast. This trip involved Disneyworld, New York City, Buffalo and Washington D.C. - this post is about the three days I got to spend in D.C.
An interesting fact I learnt about Washington D.C. was that, apart from 4 exclusions including the Washington Monument, no new buildings are allowed to be higher than the Statue of Freedom on the top of the Capitol Building. This means that you don’t have skyscraper upon skyscraper blocking out the sun. Everything seemed a bit more open.
There are lots of museums surrounding the central park called National Mall, with Capitol Hill at one end and the Washington Monument at the other.
I arrived in Bangkok mid-afternoon, after a long haul flight from London, with a quick change over in Jordon. That is probably the best time to get there as you are fairly wide awake and its still daylight so you can roughly figure out where you are going.
I shared a taxi with a couple of travelling buddies - this was a lot quicker than getting the bus and if you share it the costs are pretty much the same. I headed to Khao San Road, the main street for backpackers in Bangkok and famous for appearing in the film - The Beach.
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