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Every year in May there is a special Blue Night / Die Blaue Nacht in Nuremberg (Bavaria). Many of the sights are lit and there is a special atmosphere because many visitors are wearing little blinking lights.

Highlight is the projection on Nuremberg Castle. In 2010 a local artist named Axel Voss created an impressive lightshow with a collage of cartoons and publicity signs.

In July 1989 I visited my Hungarian penpal Mariann. Here is what she wrote in my travel book :

"When you go to Sopron, you should visit the best icecream parlour. It's in the old city, in the Szentgyörgy Street. You can ask it there, I think everybody will help you. Just say "I am looking for a place where I can buy very good icecream with little umbrellas.

In Hungarian : "hol van az a cukràszda, ahol nagyon finom fagylaltot lehes enni, és kis esernyökel adnak hozzà?"

1988

July 1: Brussels - Köln

July 2: Köln - Hannover - München

July 3: München - Venezia

July 6: Venezia - Verona - Milano

July 7: Milano - Firenze

July 8: Firenze - Pisa - Firenze

July 9: Firenze - Roma

July 11: Roma - Salerno

July 12: Napoli - Foggia - Bari

July 13: Bari - Brindisi

July 14: Patrai - Olympia

July 15: Olympia - Zeygfolatio - Argos - Athene

July 17: Athens - Inoi - Kalampaka

July 18: Kalampaka - Paleofarsalos

July 19: Thessaloniki - Beograd

July 20: Beograd - Sutomare

July 24: Kardeljevo - Doboj

July 25: Doboj - Zagreb

July 26: Zagreb - Llubjana - Vienna

July 27: Vienna - Zell Am See

July 29: Zell Am See - Innsbruck

July 30: Innsbruck - Basel

July 30: Basel - Brussels

Once upon a time, a long long time ago, I traveled from Stockholm to Turku on a Christmas Eve. The boat trip was included in my InterRail ticket, and the first thing I noticed was that there were no real cabins, just some compartments where you could sleep. The night boat had a reputation with party people, but what I experienced that night went beyond my wildest imagination.

Everybody looked drunk, people were making love in their compartment (it looked like a train compartment but without doors or other means of privacy) and you can imagine I didn't sleep a wink.

Outside it was freezing cold, but inside it was hot like hell

And you, what is your most memorable boat trip?

June 18 : Brussels - Calais - Dover - Wales

June 19: Wales - London

June 20: London - Oxford

June 21: Oxford

June 22: Oxford - Birmingham

June 23: Birmingham - Aberdeen

June 24:  Aberdeen - Keith - Inverness

June 25: Inverness - Pitlochry

June 26: Pitlochry - York

June 27: York - London - Dover

June 28: Dover - Brussels

June 30: Proclamation!!!!

June 30: Brussels - Hamburg - Lübeck

July 1 - 5 : Lübeck

July 5 - 6 : Hamburg - München - Salzburg

July 7: Salzburg - Vienna - Budapest

July 7 - 15 : Budapest

July 15: Budapest - Sopron

July 16: Sopron - Vienna

July 18: Vienna - Köln - Brussels