Wow it's been awhile. We've been biking almost every day since Florence in some pretty remote parts of Tuscany so it's been hard to find time to write. Biking through Tuscany has been an interesting experience. On one hand the food is amazing and everywhere you look there's olive trees and fields of vineyards turning yellow and orange. But on the other hand those "rolling hills of Tuscany" are not quite what I pictured. They're actually more like little mountains with roads that run straight up and straight down them. We found this out the hard way on our first bike [View Full Entry]

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We've been in Florence for the last few days, and I'm sad to leave this morning because it means biking every day again. Not that the biking itself is bad, just that our lack of planning causes a panic every day at 4pm about where we're going to stay that night. It always seems to work itself out though. Florence was really nice, though it rained yesterday. We visited the statue of David (what a teeny weiner!) and went to the Uffizi art gallery yesterday. Wish I was more into art because the guidebook said it would take a whole day [View Full Entry]

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The last week has been so crazy! Kuba and I have been biking almost every day. After Ferrara we went to Bologna, which was nice but pretty uneventful. Besides all the meat! So much meat! Their speciality is ham, and we spared no little piggies. We also visited a place that strangely reminded me of an Italian Horseshoe. This bar has served only alcohol, no water or food (people brought their own), since the 1300s. It was also slightly trashy, so we fit right in! From Bologna we went through Modena and Parma, where we continued to eat like beasts. Modena [View Full Entry]

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Kuba and I met in Berlin a few days ago and I was reunited with my bike! We took a 24 hour train ride down to Venice from there. It was...interesting. Apparently I booked the wrong ticket for the overnight train so instead of beds we just had chairs. The next morning I woke up not feeling well at all. I hadn't been feeling well all week, but suddenly it was way worse. I threw up so many times into the nasty train toliet. When we got to one of our stopovers in Milan Kuba gave me some nausea tablets he [View Full Entry]

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We made it through Romania and came back to Budapest this afternoon. I never thought I'd be so happy to be in Hungary again. Romania was the most interesting country we went to, but only because of its challenge and bizarreness. The people in Romania were very nice and helpful, but the policemen were a little odd. Again today on the train back we kept getting asked and asked again for tickets or passports. They would disappear with our passports, which made me uneasy. One policeman began questioning us where we went in Romania. In the middle of me listing off [View Full Entry]

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Last night we left Budapest and took a night train to Brasov, Romania. I didn't expect things to be so different here, but they really are. The night train was alright, kind of cramped but the bunk beds were better than any of the hostels we've stayed at. Jessica and I were watching a movie on her mini-computer when the cabin door flung open and a train attendant sharply demanded something in another language. Everyone gave him their passports and tickets for inspection so we did too. About an hour later the door flung open again and another train attendant asked [View Full Entry]

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We made it to Vienna yesterday, which was more of a stopping point for us to get to Budapest. It was alright but not too impressive compared to Prague. We arrived in the afternoon and I forced Jessica to go site-seeing with me. It was the worst site-seeing ever. We wandered around, not even knowing what we were looking at. But, we did eat at a pizza place that had tabasco. It was amazing. This morning we left Vienna and now we're in Budapest. Hungary is really nice and probably my favorite country so far. It's a dirtier and not as [View Full Entry]

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The internet connection here is slow, but I managed to get some pictures on the computer. More to come! Yesterday Jessica and I spent an entire day training to some small town called Kutna Hora to see a church. A few hundred years ago a monk kind of lost it and dug up 40,000 human remains. He made all these designs out of human bones. It was kind of disturbing, but pretty awesome. I really wanted to touch one, but Jessica said no. We got off at the wrong stop and had to wait for an hour in an even smaller [View Full Entry]

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Jessica had her bags returned, so all is good. We trained to Munich the day before yesterday to go to Oktoberfest. It was amazing, people everywhere in lederhosen and German dresses. We decided to order a beer and went the waiter came he was holding the biggest "glasses" of beer I've ever seen. They were a liter! So we drank one, then went to another place and decided why not have another? Then we decided, why not have another? Unfortunate choices because the next morning I woke up with the worst hangover of my life. But, since it was the first [View Full Entry]

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Jessica and I finally made it to Berlin yesterday. The airport lost Jessica's luggage so it was pretty crazy. According to them it's in London, which doesn't make much sense since she didn't stop in London. Before we trained to Berlin yesterday we had our first meal of sausages and beer. Unfortunately the menu was in German and we couldn't read any of the beer names. She pointed to the cheapest one, which turned out to be "alcohol frie". She'll never live it down! We spend tomorrow in Berlin and train down to Munich after. Despite the lost luggage we're having [View Full Entry]

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