Day 59 and 60 One Stop, Two Shop, New Mosque, Blue Mosque
The Europe Istanbul from the ferry.Hello! My abominable Dr. Seuss parody attempts non-withstanding, I´m good! I spent all day with Annika wandering around the Grand Bazaar before getting fed up with...
View ArticleDay 61 & 62 Cappadocia East-Asian Style
Hey Back Home!My bunk at the Nirvana Cave Hostel.Woah! Cappadocia is incredibly beautiful, full of rocky nooks and crannies you can get lost in... or sleep in as the case was with my hostel! The bus...
View ArticleDay 63 Fresh Tracks in Anatolia
It’s OFFICIAL – 2 full months travelling, and I’m closer to the finish line than my starting point!the Pamukkale travertines.Pamukkale is amazing! David and I checked into the Mustafa Hotel, definitely...
View ArticleDay 64 Ephesus in Good Company
I woke up this morning pretty refreshed, having spent last night updating and watching True Grit. Our bus was at 9:15, so we packed up, paid our tab and headed out. The bus was just little this time,...
View ArticleDay 65 Bodrum Blues
By blues I mean the gorgeous colour of the ocean and the name our our amazing hotel, Blu! My mood is far from, as it turns out that my journal, which I left on last night's bus, has been tracked down,...
View ArticleDay 66 and 67 Out of Turkey and Into the Breach
Well I´m off, I have reached Poland, and Krakow starts my sprint to the finish - literally sprint. I am hitting about 25 cities in just over 50 days, wawawewah!I arrived from Bodrum to the Old City...
View ArticleDay 69 Krakow and Auschwitz
Hey folks, this one is pretty much going to sound like I wrote it as two different people... I'm here as a tourist, but I've also been made a witness to the horrors of the holocaust, and it is pretty...
View ArticleDay 70 Pushin' on Prague
I keep trying to get away from all the alliterative post titles, but they're just so darn catchy you'll all have to stick with me!Can you imagine this between Can and US?The "border" into the Czech...
View ArticleDay 72 Hooplahs, Daring Feats and Time Travel
woah, I can't believe how much I've done in the past 3 days... I've barely had time to breathe let alone write a blog, but I'm sitting now and I have a second, so I'll update the crew!So Kaja came to...
View ArticleDay 74 Getting Caught Up and Getting Ready to Leave
Hey again everyone!The next morning we were up and at 'em, catching the 9:15 train into Prague in order to make it in time for the free walking tour leaving from Sir Toby's. Harry had to bail in order...
View ArticleDay 75 Lennon Remembered and Bratislava Discovered
Ahoj! (Czech for 'hello'!)We left Kaja's house pretty late after bumming around all day in our pjs. It was awfully nice to just chill though, recharge and feel at home for a little while. Hostels are...
View ArticleDay 77 Very Quick Vienna and Breezing Through Bratislava
Hey again, I'm using the wifi on the bus!Making horsie friends!We woke up pretty early in order to get to Vienna and see everything. It’s a big city and full of so much history, so we needed as much...
View ArticleDay 78 Retoxing
Hey again, I'm seriously hungover as I write this post, but I'll try and make it awesome anyways...Group of Legends. Me, Kyle, Westie,Paul, and Ben!Shannon and Paul in the background. Walking around...
View ArticleDay 81 Liver Failure
Hey again! It's been a crazy couple nights, but I'm going to give you the highlights! Later on today a ton of us are hitting up a free walking tour, so that should teach me a little more about the...
View ArticleDay 82 What I Learned in Hungary
Hey all! I’m writing this from Berlin, but since so much has happened since I updated, I decided to pre-date it so as to keep things simple!We made the same mistake as we had in Bratislava... forgot...
View ArticleDay 84 The Party Comes to a Pause... After I Tell You the Rest OftheCrazy!
Alrighty, this post should take me to the end of my crazy days in Budapest, and I’ll try to keep it short and sweet to get you caught up on my adventures!Marco (the Giant) having to drink the...
View ArticleDay 87 Berghain and Berlin
So! I’m on a roll here, at this rate I’ll be all caught up before I leave Berlin on my midnight bus! I’m thinking that I’ll do a final post before I’m done with this trip about the stats and cost of...
View ArticleDay 89 Halloween Hungarian Style
Hey guys! I've got a lot to get through, I've been really busy since my last blog post! I realized how little time I have before I head to Greece to meet my Mom and Aunt, so I need to move quickly! I...
View ArticleDay 92 Slightly Serbian, Briefly Bosnian
So I said my goodbyes at Retox, and I waited for the bus at a sketchy road sign as instructed. The day was gray, and as I sheltered on a stoop nearby, I saw another backpacker navigating the puddles...
View ArticleDay 96 One-Hundred and One Dalmatian Coasts
Actually guys, there's really only one... sorry to disappoint those who've been here and know how amazing it would be to have places like this scattered everywhere.I left Mostar on a rainy day, and...
View ArticleDay 97 Pleasantly Surprised By Zagreb
Hey again! Wow, I keep falling wildly behind here, but I promise to get this sucker up to date again!So I left Dubrovnik and made my way to Zagreb on another overnight winner. The bus rides are getting...
View ArticleDay 99 Ljubljana the Hard Hitter, and Off to Italy
Well I had no expectations about Slovenia at all. I really hadn't planned to go there in the first place, and only made the trip as a connecting city to Italy, as I really wanted to get to Venice. A...
View ArticleDay 102 Northern Italy and Old Floating Venice
The culprits of Davide's shortened night.So my hundredth day out here passed without much fanfare, but I did spend it in the company of Davide, so Montreal homesickness was a certainty. We found...
View ArticleDay 104 Roma Caput Mundi
I got a full day of sightseeing in right off the bat. I knew I wanted to spend some time one of my days in Rome lounging around, doing (much needed) laundry) and essentially being a bum. The kind of...
View ArticleDay 106 Vatican City and Villa Borghese
Thank God for low season!I went down to the Vatican today, and luckily there were no lines, no waiting whatsoever! And this at a place famed for how busy it gets. If you're going to be there in the...
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