Alisons B'day- the I am not 30 Party

Hi all I know that you are waiting for the latest installment of our adventures today.  Okay so what do girls love to do - yes shop and that is what we have done ALL DAY. There are new coats, shoes tops, jumpers and handbags.

And on the list of still need to get is a hat for Alison and 2 more tops for Karen then I think that is it.

So for dinner tonight we went to one of the best Restaurants in town the Weinner Block:

The Weisser Bock


So the chef sent out a free entree as it was Alison's b'day. followed by our own entrees (lucky we chose to share). Then we all had our own mains (all ~Germany food portions). We all tried our hardest to finish the mains, but alas were unable to do so. We waddled out of the Restaurant for one final celebration drink at the POP bar ( POP now known as Private O'Neill Party) of champagne- I mean sparkling wine. After that we have come home.


Alison has asked me all to let you know she is first in bed at 1am, so is too tired to blog on her b'day. So good night from her and good night form me.
Miss you all from here
Karen and Alison

We are in Heidelberg

Hi all ,
we arrived in Germany last night at 7pm from Denmark. My brother came and meet us at the airport. Our first experience was very un Germany like- it took for ever for our bags to turn up. We handled the issue and the fact we have missed a train by going to the bar and drinking red wine till the next train. You think this is good, we then catch the fast train- 300km per hour - takes 40mins to Heidelberg. And we do this sitting in the cafe section drinking more red wine.

We drop everything at Sean's round 10.30pm and then walk to the resturant for dinner at the Snitzelber. Two of Sean's work friends (both on loan from Spain) come to dinner with us. The meals are big and fabulous - with more red wine. We are the last to leave the resturant and head to the irish bar (but it is closed) so we go to another pub. Only 5 girls in the bar- the rest were men and most of them were taller than Alison and I.
Midnight hits and it is Alison's b'day so we clink glasses and give wishes. Finally the pub shuts and we head home where in honor of Alison's b'day we have a glass of Frangelico before bed at 2.30am. At least we didn't have to go to work like Sean.
Have a picture will up load later.
Miss you from here
Karen & Alison

Mary's ground and blog obsession

Hi all here are some photos taken by Trine when we were at Mary's Castle in the grounds- as you know cause we could not get any closer- the bitterness will eventually fade- but it seems unaustralian.

Alison/ Karen/ Cousin Adams best sides

Look we do have faces

Alison has agreed to write on one blog post per week - she is just not that into you excuse. Apparently I am blog obsessed and here is the photo to prove it.

Alison and Cousin Adam in the kitchen cooking for our dinner on our last nite in Denmark. We miss Trine and Cousin Adam already.

Christianhavn resturant

We forgot to tell you about the resturant that we went to the other night in Christianhavn
History: Christianhavn is an island in the middle that began as a social experiment - a group of peace love and mungbean hippies decided to populate and not pay taxes and everyone was welcome. I t has been a contentious problem for the Danish Government. Recently it flared up again cause of the  availability to buy drugs- lots and all kinds. The police have recently done a major operation and cleaned it out. But the social experiment goes on.

This is the outside of the Resturant(day shot as we forgot to take a photo)

This is a shot inside- obviously we are not there - also forgot to take photo at the time.

David in Denmark                                                                      David in Italy


Yes this is the difference in the David statues between the two countries. Denmark like their men big.

Mary's Castle By Alison

Mary's Castle:

Well I don't think I can avoid creating a post any longer....Even mum and Rebecca have questioned why I have not written any entries yet. So here goes....

Adam and Trine have been the best tour guides a traveller could ask for we've seen many of he Tourist attractions the city has to display, on Sunday we travelled a little way out of the city to see some sites, all of these adventures have been lots of fun, with plenty of information that only the locals could share with you.

Before the castle we decided that a lunch break was in order, we headed into a coffee shop for a few quick handburgers and a beverage.. the heating was not great so we all ate quickly and then continued on our journey to Mary's castle. As long as you keep moving the cold air is not uncomfortable.



Mary's Castle



Mary's castle has had some new gates installed and we could no longer get as close as was previously possible Trine and Adam thought there migt be away so we head of on foot to see if we could get closer around the back.

As we travelled down towards the boat house we all manged to forget that we would have to head back up the hill to return to the car at some stage. On the walk down we got to take in some great Autum colous and once at the bottom the crystal blue of the sea.

After contemplating for a few moments we walked along the waters edge for quiet a while before using a different path to head back up the hill.

We all jumped back into the car and headed for home....A cup of tea and plenty of chat.... and then in true O'Neill fashion some more tea and more chatting.

Too be or not to be- Hamlets Castle By Karen

Alison's doing the update on Marys castle- in just a few minutes.
Okay on Sunday Cousin Adam and Trine took us out of the city for the day - to visit the castle writen about by Shakespeare's in Hamlet (which he ripped off apparently from an old old story). So with no further babbling here is the first castle shots


Trine and Alison in the courtyard of Kronborg castle



They haven't moved, just voomed out so you can see some of Kronberg castle as well as Trinae and Alison

I liked the green roof- but this means it needs to be cleaned according to the locals. 



We are in the chapel at Kronborg castle. This was not burnt down in  the fire, so is the original art work. It maybe small in size but it definately designed for royality. 



Trine in the beautiful chapel



Now we are  n the case mates (where the soilders lived) it is dark, under ground and very cold.



Alison in the casemates. The part we were in held 500 men - all  got to sleep on hammocks hung from the celing. I swear it was the size of Alisons 2 bedroom apartment in Parramatta. Thats is why Alison is happy to have hers all to herself.

The famous Dane (Holger the Dane) the real Dane (Trine) and the pretend Dane  (Cousin Adam). Legend has it Holger is protected by faries and is just asleep and will awake when Denmark needs defending. Currenly they have a great graphic light show on the statue. It shows the faries protecting and caring for him, Holger slaying an enemy and it makes it look like Holger the Dane is actually breathing- Loved this the best.

Portrait of Shakespeare- also tells how he took the story and used into his play Hamlet. Thus making Kronborg Castle famous in his play.

I know too far away to really see- but the land on the other side of the water is Sweden.