In July/August, Claire and I will be setting off on our travels around Eastern Europe. The plan at the moment is start in Italy and then work our way through Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Germany and Czech Republic. We’ll have little booked, but will have with us a Lonely Planet guide, our backpacks and each other.
This is a blog to keep people up to date with our progress, and to post a few photos as I’m not sure how much access we’ll get to load many photos on to the internet.
Any hints, tips, suggestions… feel free to leave a comment 
Now, back to revision
Lou
July 8, 2008 at 11:24 pm
There is a sweet five story famous night club in Prague. Go.
Very cool. Don’t drink. Dodgey things they put in your drinks. Go find jazz in prague too. Lots of good music to enjoy. Poland SO fun. Go to Krakow and enjoy the old city.. completely rebuilt replica of what it was pre-war. Make sure you get out to a concentration camp. Don’t be freaked out by strange men to try to get to to come stay in their houses (’hostels’ riiiighht) I was completely freaked out and nearly decked a guy in front of taxi drivers. But don’t entertain them even for a second or they will follow you forever and will harass you to stay in their house. “7 dollah 7 dollah” Walk straight out of train station firmly, don’t make eye contact or conversation and you should be fine 
Neeeeveerrrrrr ride a Hungarian tube without making sure your ticket is not only bought but punched properly. Go up to the castley bit. Eat cakes in the coffee houses. Very nice. 
They target foreigners and charge you ridiculous penalties if your ticket is even punched wrong. Creepy but harmless I think. If you can go any further south.. Lake Ohrid in Macedonia is paradise 