Neue Synagoge

Advantages: Cheap, nice rooms
Disadvantages: Located a little outside of city centre

...Anyone who has read any of my previous reviews will have probably realised that I will use any excuse to travel. This year the plan was to spend most of it at home as we are saving money for our wedding, but when one of my friends announced that he was being seconded to Munich for 4 months, I was straight away planning a trip away! Having spoken to some of my other friends, we soon decided to make a weekend of it and I was tasked with planning flights and hotels. Despite the fact that we are now all working, we're all still students at heart so I was looking for a cheap hotel, but something above a hostel. Having searched the hotel sites that I can get a discount at, I still hadn't found an ideal place so I tried lastminute.com and came across the NH Neue Messe. I had never heard of the NH hotel chain before although subsequent... Read review

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Advantages: Everythings cheap
Disadvantages: difficult language

..., rucksacks were slung to designate beds and three hungry wolves were on the prowl for some unsuspecting pray. The pray came in the form of pizza and a few jugs of Czech’s very own Pilsner Urquell beer, all for less than three pound I could sense a welcome pattern evolving. The first cultural port of call was to marvel at the architectural wonder that is Charles Bridge, after numerous refreshment breaks along the way and 10 pints of Pilsner Urquell later we had to abandon our pilgrimage and postpone until the morrow. A more productive day ensued in which Charles Bridge, Prague castle, Various Synagogs and St. Nick’s church were visited. Also we heard on the tourist grapevine that the clock in the old town square would display an awesome scene when the clock struck the hour, after gazing up in anticipation for 10 minutes to see... Read review

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Advantages: Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace), walking around in a unique city
Disadvantages: Expensive accommodation, the city is a bit small

...that Venice had the first Jewish ghetto in the world? Well, in 1516 the council of Ten decided to confine the Jews of Venice on an island which has previously been occupied by a couple of foundries. The Venetian word for foundry is geto and hence the name ghetto which has later been used to describe Jewish enclaves around the world. We paid about 8 € each to get a little tour of the ghetto and I’m not sure that it was worth the money. But we did get to see the synagogues inside and that was nice because it was really hard to tell that there were any synagogues there from the outside of the buildings. This was due to rules and regulations in Venice. One of the Synagoges has an original Venetian floor. We experienced this in other buildings as well and at first I was afraid that the floor was about to collapse because you could actually feel... Read review

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