Vienna, Austria, Europe I really got to see what a beautiful city Vienna is today. I got up around 7:30am, took my time getting ready and used the Internet down in the lobby for a bit. It’s so annoying that I can’t just use it in my room. I left the hostel around 10am and walked into the city center. The first place I came across was Belvedere palace. It was stunning. I walked past it yesterday but never went…
Vienna, Austria, Europe I ended up staying up until just after midnight watching the Red Sox win to stop their ten game losing stretch. I figured that while I have good wifi and the Sox were playing at a sensible time for me, I might as well take advantage of it. I’m glad I did. I then woke up at 6am because my windows had white blinds that did a horrible job of blocking out any light. In fact, I…
Bratislava, Slovakia, Europe Today was pretty much just a travel day. I got the Polskibus from Krakow at 10:30am to another Polish city called Katowice. I had about an hour and a half to wait so I grabbed some lunch at the bus station and then hopped on my next bus to Bratislava. It was about a five and a half hour ride and it was pretty nice. The scenery once we got into Slovakia was really nice. There were…
Krakow, Poland, Europe So as expected, today was a pretty tough day. Of course I can’t complain about anything I had to go through today, but witnessing the struggles that so many people had to go through for so long. I got up at 6:30am, mainly just because the sun was shining in my face and there was no curtain to block it. I figured that since I was already awake, I might as well get an early start to…
Krakow, Poland, Europe I got up this morning and headed out for the walking tour of the old town. There was a big group of 44 people that showed up for the tour, so luckily they split us into two groups. Our tour guide Chris was very good and had a good mixture of facts and jokes. It’s a good way to play a group like this, a little bit for everyone. We got a beautiful day for the walking…
Krakow, Poland, Europe Today had an absolutely horrible start. As I expected, I could hardly sleep last night because every time anyone in the dorm moved, the beds made a horrific noise that woke us all up. It was just ridiculous. So I was awake at 7:30am and got all my stuff ready to go. The signs in the hostel said that checkout was from 9am so I hung around until then to try and checkout and leave my bags…
Warsaw, Poland, Europe Today started out by packing up my stuff and bringing it to the bus station. I didn’t want to have to go back to my hostel so leaving the bags in a locker made the most sense. I walked from there around the old town to get to the KGB museum. It had been recommended to me by a friend as something that I should see. The museum was one of those powerful kind of places that…
Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe I got to explore a little more of Vilnius today, and it was alright. It’s not my favorite of the Baltic cities, but it was still nice. I met Hannah for the 12pm start of the tour and it was pretty good. It was a pretty small group, around ten people. We met a Singaporean girl named Shameera and hung out with her for the rest of the day. This tour was a little different from the…
Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe I moved on to another city today, and it looks pretty similar to the last couple I’ve been to. Hannah and I got a bus from Riga to Vilnius this morning at 8:30am and got in at about 12:30pm. It was a pretty nice ride through the countryside, and I had a couple of older American guys to talk to. They are travelling around for a few weeks, but it seems like they’ve been absolutely everywhere in…
Riga, Latvia, Europe Today was a really nice day in Riga. It was a horrible night sleep at the hostel, so I was up really early this morning. Last night was really hot, with no air conditioning in the room, and we left the window open to try and get some cool air in, but there was no air movement in the room, and a lot of noise from the street coming in. My pillow was also the worst thing…