Archive for April, 2012
Ten kinds of AWESOME!
So we’re just back from two weeks in Berlin, Prague and Vienna (I need a holiday now — only vast quantities of Easter chocolate, mucho cake in Vienna and a whole lot of cheap alcohol in Prague has kept me going).
While we were in Prague, we saw pictures of an ossuary about an hour out of the city and decided to take a trip out to see it, because the pictures of it looked amazing. We booked a day tour, because the train and tram changes were frequent (and because guides always know where the best toilets are — crucial when travelling with kids). When we fronted up for the tour, the guide was pretty excited to be setting off, even though he’d been hosting this tour for five months. This seemed like a long time, but his eyes still lit up when he spoke about the ossuary. ‘It’s AWESOME!’ he said, time and time again. ‘Just AWESOME!’.
Well, finally we got to the ossuary. And it was…
AWESOME! With 50,000 or so bones, how could it not be? There was a coat of arms made of bones, pyramids of bones, bones with axe marks in them, bones with spear marks in them. There was even a bone chandelier. Hello, AWESOME! Check it out for yourself…
Entering the ossuary... AWESOME!
Coat of arms made of bones. Even more AWESOME!
Over lunch, our guide asked us how we liked living in the UK. We did our usual shuffling of feet, before quickly saying the opportunity for travel had been… AWESOME! And that’s the bottom line. Nothing will ever beat Australia for the lifestyle factor, but living there really does hold you back on the travel front. I’ve just been flipping through our photos now and realised that if we hadn’t come over here for a full year, there’s no way we would have been able to…
Take a husky ride (and then a trip to a Norwegian hospital!).
See the Northern lights.
Rekindle my love for terrible English beaches.
Research the book I'm writing in real time (characters have a little orgy here...).
See smokers in cages (Vienna airport).
Visit Downton Abbey (swoon!).
AWESOME! I also wouldn’t have…
Spent approximately $1 million at Legoland.
Patted bloody bunnies for bloody hours.
Gone on every open-top round-town bus tour in existence.
Paid to see a whole lot of miniature $#%*.
But that’s travelling with kids, I guess!
