Its the journey...

Thursday, 17 March 2011

St Paddys day: Dublin

Cathedral in Dublin

St Paddys Day!

St Paddys day Parade

My first Guinness

Celebrating St Paddys day at Temple bar

Guinness Lake

Silk factory

Guinness Factory

Highlights of St Paddys:

Orange, green, white

Guinness

Irish music and dancing

pick pockets

Soup restraunt

vegetarian restraun

Monday, 7 March 2011

Budapest

Budapest, craziest 3 nights of my life.

Goulash soup, a delicious Hungarian dish that's like a beef stew. We had this every night!

The bridge that separates "Buda" and "Pest"

Holding the balls of this horse gives you good luck!

Heroe's Square. It is a memorial to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarians arrived in the Carpathian Basin.

Exploring underground tunnels which were kind of a maze. There were different chambers throughout with objects and exhibits left over from the war. This is a water fountain that spurts out red wine, I wouldn't want to drink it though!

The Szechenyi thermal bathing pools are filled with naturally hot water and cooled down to about 38 degrees Celsius. We went to the outdoor adventure pools which were steaming hot and had water jets and whirlpools to play in. Running between pools was freezing as the outside air was a frosty 7 degrees!

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Sweden 2011 Jan-May

Bon Voyage!

Our adventure to Sweden started on the 14th of January, 2011. Leaving 40 degree heat in Perth we arrived into -11degrees in Stockholm. In the next four months we would form life long friendships as we take on a new culture, climate and make memories we will never forget. Alicia and Elissa were the best travel buddies I could have ever asked for.

Our families at the airport

Landed in Stockholm

Playing in the snow

Mulled wine

Pick up point in Jonkoping, we made it!

Swedish Sports

Mens World Handball Championships

Ice Hockey. Go HV71!

Jonkoping

This is the Beautiful town I lived in for 4 months. It has a population of about 90,000. Its kind of known amongst Swedes as a boring, sleepy church town, but with thousands of international exchange students let loose there was always plenty of fun to be had.

Centrum

Systembolaget, otherwise known as the bottlo. If you went in there on a Wednesday afternoon or Saturday morning you were bound you see some one you know.

Jonkoping University

School of Health Sciences

Vilhelmsro

I lived at a student housing block called Vilhelmsro. It used to be a mental hospital, as you can tell by the double doors and sound proofing. There was about 10 main corridors each with a bathroom and kitchen. Vilhelmsro was also bit of a party house, even though it was out of town.

View from Elissa's room.