Marseille, France, Europe Today has been quite a long day. I woke up at 5:30am, left the hostel by 6am and got to the bus station for 6:30am. Perfectly planned and executed for my 7am bus ride. Unfortunately, I received a phone call from Eurolines at 6:35am saying that my bus was going to be delayed by an hour and wouldn’t arrive until 8am. Okay, not ideal but I can live with that. It was a bit annoying however when…
Lyon, France, Europe I had a pretty good day in Lyon. I have really enjoyed my hostel. The facilities are really nice, the people who work there are really nice, and the people staying there are really nice. I spent most of the morning just chilling with a few of the other hostellers, and went out around noon to check out some more of the city. I went up to Parc de la Tete d’Or in the north of the…
Lyon, France, Europe I think I got about 2 hours of sleep on the bus last night, and arrived in Lyon at about 7am. I had a nice leisurely walk to SLO Living Hostel, and am very impressed with it. This place just opened two weeks ago and it’s really nice. It’s owned by a few 30 year olds who love to travel and they decided to open a hostel as a project. I love that idea. I may end…
Brussels, Belgium, Europe I had a really nice day with Pete and Therese today. We got up pretty late after such a late night, so I think it was around 10:30am when we finally got up. Pete went out to do some shopping and made us pancakes and bacon, and got some croissants and juice. It was the best breakfast I’ve had in a long long time. I can’t even remember the last time I had a pancake, but it…
Brussels, Belgium, Europe I got back around midnight last night and got on the phone with a car rental company to try to organise a car rental for the next week. I figured it would be nice to drive myself around southern France, Switzerland and Spain. Last night there was an issue with the rental car company’s system, so I had to call back this morning. It ended up being about two hours on the phone total, trying to get…
Brussels, Belgium, Europe I wasn’t surprised that one of the girls in the dorm came back last night at 3:30am, and the other one didn’t come back at all. That was pretty much what I expected. I got up early and got ready to go out for the day. I left at the same time as Thea, so we went out for breakfast and walked to the train station together. She got on her train to Hamburg and I hopped…
Brussels, Belgium, Europe I was really sad to be leaving Langedijk and the company of Jacquelien this morning. I was up at 7am, showered, packed and ready for leaving at 8am. Jacquelien gave me a ride to the train station and we said our “see ya laters”. I couldn’t have asked for a better hostess for the last few days and I’m really happy we met while travelling and became friends. I arrived at Amsterdam Amstel station and got my…
Langedijk, Holland, Europe I had an absolutely brilliant day today! I got a great night’s sleep, woke up late, and had a few hours of relaxation time at Jacqueline’s house. She and Tim were off to work, so it was just me and their chickens in the back garden. I did some laundry, caught up on sports scores, and had time to just relax. It was really nice. Jacquelien took a half day and got back to the house around…
Langedijk, Holland, Europe I had an awesome day in the Netherlands. I was all over the place, but it was excellent! I had an awesome sleep at Jacquelien’s house, and then she was nice enough to give me a ride to the train station at Heerhugowaard to head into Amsterdam. I got into the city by about 10am and had a few hours to walk around the city. I’d been here before a few years ago, so today I just…
Langedijk, Holland, Europe I had a horrible night’s sleep in Hamburg. Between the other guys coming in the dorm at random times during the night, and me constantly waking up to make sure someone wasn’t stealing my stuff, I probably got about an hour of sleep. Finally at 6:30am I decided to just get up and get out of the room. As I was getting ready, another guy came into the room at like 7am. It must have been a…