What an interesting few days, and each was certainly very different from the other. My first day was spent almost purely in transit from Venice to Munich. I got a quick haircut in Venice too before I took the train, my first since leaving Canada. The barber didnt speak English, but my passport photo is very recent, and was taken the same day as I got a haircut, perfect! I just showed him it and said "like this", he did a fantastic job. The trainride from Venice to Munich....wow....speechless. That was easily the most beautiful trainride I have been on yet, [View Full Entry]

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Not a lot to do in Venice, but I had a good enough time just walking about...and getting lost every five minutes. When on the island, there are no cars or anything, everyone is stuck on foot. And since this is the case, there are no roads, only small and claustrophobic alleyways. Alleyways they often lead to dead ends, or in circles, but this is fun in it's own way. For accomodation, I was staying at a huge campsite complex about a 15 minute bus ride out of town. Not a bad place, and the price was very good, 12€ a [View Full Entry]

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An English scholar once wrote: As long as the Colosseum stands, so shall Rome When the Colosseum falls, so shall Rome When Rome falls, so shall the world Luckily for us, it is still standing, and this is where I chose to begin my Roman experience. And a truly excellent start it was at that. After grabbing the metro to take me to the Colloseo stop, which is right outside the building, it began. Walking up the steps from the metro and seeing that magnificent icon of ancient Rome appear before your eyes is....well....indescribable....it's unreal. I was just wandering around the [View Full Entry]

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Well, not that I saw any flowers here, but anyway... Florence for me was only okay, I was a little disappointed. Bad to start this journal on a slightly sour note I realise, but here is how things went for me. I arrived in Florence around 2000 on the 2nd, and very quickly made the move to check in my backpack for safekeeping at the train station, since I didn't have a room booked until the 3rd. I grabbed what has to be the best McDonalds I have ever had there at the station, it tasted really good. McDonalds tasting good, [View Full Entry]

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Wow, this should be interesting.... So I left Madrid on the 30th of May and my destination was to be Florence. It took me four full days to get there, and I saw a lot in that time. The first train I took got me from Madrid to Barcelona, this took about 5 hours. I had 2 hours to kill until my train to Montpellier in France, and since Nou Camp was nearby, I ran there to see the Barcelona FC museum, and check out the Stadium. Cool museum, you could see old footballs shirts, footballs, boots, and all the cups [View Full Entry]

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My day of travel from Barcelona to Madrid was a long one, but not by any means a waste. I arrived at the train station around 10am hoping to grab a direct train, but sadly every single direct train for the day was fully reserved, ugh. Luckily the girl at the tickets booth managed to work out a route for me to get to my destination. The 1500 train from Barcelona to Valencia, and the 1845 train from Valencia to Madrid. It worked very smoothly actually, but cost me about 5 hours of time. The train rides were, however, extremely scenic, [View Full Entry]

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Arrived safe and sound at 8am on Tuesday, after my first hotel train experience. The train from Paris to Barcelona took 12 hours, and I was sharing a cabin of 4 fold down bunks with 3 other gentlemen. 4 strangers in a 2x2m room, interesting experience. It wasnt bad though, I got talking to the two that spoke English and before I knew it, 3 hours had passed and it was time to kip. The only problem here was that the bed was very short, made for people 5 feet tall I guess, and when someone like me who is only [View Full Entry]

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Well, all is going well, and I'm enjoying myself. But I got off to a rather shaky start here. I arrived in Paris around 2000 hours on Friday and didn't really know where to start. But since I had all my luggage (a very heavy backpack, and a small bag), it definitely seemed best to get a room for the night asap. Common sense prevails. However, this seemingly simple process ran me into a wall, for some reason every single room was filled in every hotel I went into. This got me a little worried, and after 2 hours I was [View Full Entry]

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After the sketchy details on my previous journal, it's time to expand on what I have seen during my tim here in Edinburgh. Last Thursday I spent over 3 hours exploring Edinburgh Castle. The castle itself is built on an extinct volcano and is the centerpiece of the city, it can be seen from practically anywhere. The main reason for this is simply because the city council won't allow building to be built higher than the castle, so as to spoil the skyline, or so I once heard.. The castle is fantastic, and the amount of history contained within it's walls [View Full Entry]

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Well, I finally have a chance to get caught up with this. I arrived safe and sound in Glasgow at 4am on Wednesday the 4th of May. Was lucky enough to have a friend of the family offer to pick me up at the airport; the prospect of navigating myself through Glasgow at such an hour wasn't a fond one. The whole week was spent at my Aunt's near Hamilton. Most of the time was spent catching up with old family members that I haven't seen for years, but I did get a few other things done. The main one worth [View Full Entry]

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