The Bulldogs are Cheating

I’ve been home for two weeks now and it’s really only just begun to sink in just how great of an adventure this all was. Sixteen European countries visited at least briefly, a ton of kilometres by air and train and litre upon litre of alcohol sampled. Am I happy to be home? Absolutely. I [...]

I think I can say that I hit the ground running in Rome, but it wasn’t without some awkward moments to begin with. Arriving into the train station and finding the metro area was painless, and thankfully I’d been warned about the unpleasantness to come. When you reach the subway ticket machines in Rome you’re [...]

The next morning I set off for the train station, hoping desperately that the strike was done as promised. Since Corniglia is at the top of a coastal hill (as you could see in the photos on facebook) this meant either a trip on the shuttle bus or a long walk down steps. Unfortunately I [...]

Venice was a delightful city made a lot less wonderful by the terrible digs. The hostel had six showers per floor and each floor was made up of five or six 16 bed dorms. I had the extra fun of being in the top bunk by the door so I heard every single movement of [...]

The departure from Munich was a bit more exciting than I had planned. Doing my research the night before I’d found a handy train out of Munich to Interlaken with only one switchover. Unfortunately it wasn’t until I’d gotten my reservation at the station that I realized how tight the switch was, only 7 minutes. [...]

Vienna is much better than I thought it would be. Several travellers had warned me that it was a little boring and maybe it is if you want to be out clubbing until 5am but I found it really pleasant. Thankfully the u-bahn (subway) was still running when my train arrived so I was able [...]

Split was everything it was promised to be, a little slice of vintage feeling Mediterranean city. I got there fairly late and again had problems finding my hostel, this time because there was no street sign and the sign for the hostel was an etched piece of glass the size of a cue card invisible [...]

I apologize if random spelling mistakes creep into this entry as my word document has apparently decided that I’m writing in European French out of the blue and autocorrecting in accordance. Prague has instantly climbed into my all time favourites  for international cities. It seems like half the European set movies of the past 20 [...]

Much to my relief the weather improved the next day and I was able to rent a bicycle to do a proper tour of the city getting around the way the locals do. Thankfully the hostel had a bike rental service for 11 euro a day that included a couple ways of locking the bike [...]

Luxembourg was almost instantly better than Brussels, and not just because the sun was finally out. Catching the bus to the hostel from the train station I quickly got a good look at the rocky crag the old town (and originally fortress) was built into. Soon I got an even better look as the hostel [...]