well overdue report

well hello everyone!!!!

i know it has been a ling time however access to the internet has been a little scarce since leaving paris....

So after paris, we headed to Amsterdam for 5 nights.... personally i loved amsterdam and not because of the special biscuits that you can get but it is genuinly a beautiful place.

Josh and i did 2 guided walking tours, the first of the city and learning about the history etc... and the miracle of Amsterdam (google it) very amusing story. It is fascinating there as nearly everyone and i mean everyone rides an old style push bike, most people have 3 bikes registered to their name too...
Something else that we thought hilarious was that in every fire truck contains a scuba diver!!!! due to the large array of canals running throughout and around the city, the rate of people having "a few too many" and falling into the canals is quite high.

The second tour was at night and of the red light district, very interesting to say the least. The working girls stand in windows and the men get to window shop!!!! and purchase if they like what they see.... Josh and i did quiet a bit of "prossie spotting" as you dont know exactly where these windows of opportiunity are located so we went searching for as many as we could!!!

We came across a few interesting people in Amsrerdam and all in all we had a great time...
Following our 5 days there, we headed to Berlin for 4 nights. Berlin is also an amazing place, however the main attraction here is the history. I particularly have a special interest in NAZI Germany, and we had the opportunity to see some of the historical sights that were in practice back in the war and some years after.

First we went to the Sachenhaussen concentration camp, here there is only 2 original buildings as the rest of it was rebuilt in 1962, however they have it there to remind the people of the deaths that occured and the mistreatings of thousands of innocent people there.
We stood in the gas chambers that were running in the camp and also saw the crematoriums that burned all of the people that were murdered. I could go on for ages about it, i will say that it did leave a certain space in my heart for all of those mistreated people and the torture they were put through and to actually go there was breathtaking....

The next day we did a walking tour of Berlin, we learnt about the separation of East and West Berlin and saw the remains of the famous Berlin wall. We saqw the site where Hitlers bunker was and about how he ended his own life..... Also a great, breathtaking history lesson had by both josh and I.
While in Berlin we had to decide where to go for a couple of days as we werent due in Switzerland until the 9th of Feb. We decided to go to Prague.

Arriving Prague, i must mention that we had the best hostel here! Although we were sharing with 10 other people, the room was like a hotel room, very clean and spacious. The bathroom was homely and each dorm had its own kitchen which was decked out with everything.
We chose Prague as my friend Belinda was due to move there from Oz, yes she packed up and left the place she knew as home and relocated to another country with a different language, currency and way of life (although her heritage is Czech - sorry Bel, had to mention it as i think u are awesome) so we though we could catch up with her after her arrival.
So venturing through the city looking for a pay phone that worked, we decided to locate an internet cafe and email Bel hoping that she was online. So we were walking up a street and who comes around the corner? BELINDA!!!!!!
So we spent the next couple of days together and learning about the culture here and wished Bel well and headed to Switzerland.......
to be continued .......