Ok, I must share my morning experience. I was getting ready when I hear, “house keepiiiiiiiing?” No joke, it sounded exactly like the Family Guy episode where Peter is a maid. He repeated it again, “house keepiiiing?” I actually burst out laughing. Anyway! On to my day. As much as I wanted to see “Mad” Ludwig’s castle, I didn’t want to pay around $100 and get up at 7am to join a tour. So instead, I headed off an adventure into the heart of Bavaria, to Eagle’s Nest - a chalet-retreat house the Nazi Party gave Hitler for his 50th bday. [View Full Entry]

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(Second part of my day) Before I get into everything, I must share my sadness in the fact no one in Europe seems to be aware of the City of Ottawa. I guess I'm not overly surprised, I mean you travel in the States and everyone assumes you're from Toronto, but still... I thought maybe, just maybe that would be different in Europe. But so far, no. When Sophia and I were chatting on the bus ride to Dachau, of course we talked about where we're from. She said Boston, I'm like oh sweet, Massachusetts - nice area. We talked about [View Full Entry]

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(I split today into two entries since I couldn't exactly link the two parts of my day) I woke up this morning to a very cloudy sky - how fitting it rain the day I go to Dachau. On the S-bahn ride to Dachau I met a girl, Sophia, traveling by herself - she’s from Taiwan, studying in Boston, doing an internship in Bohn, Germany. How epic. We talked pretty much the entire way there and made supper plans for afterwards, as it does get tiresome eating by yourself all the time. (My next entry, or previous depending how they're posted) [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Munich today in the middle of nowhere… (think ScotiaBank Place in comparison to downtown Ottawa) For such a large city, with a great number of tourists, their bus station is incredibly crappy. I managed to figure out how to get a ticket to get into the city itself though, and off I went. This hostel is beyond amazing. It’s kind of on a sketchy street, but that’s fine since I only come and go when it’s the day. I have a single room, and it’s nicer than a couple of the hotels I’ve been in! Queen bed, huge [View Full Entry]

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Today was a very, very lazy day. So lazy in fact I did absolutely nothing, and it felt great. I bussed to Brussels, but we arrived ridiculously early (5:30am instead of 6:30am) so I decided to hop right on a bus to Paris at 9am to kill a few hours. Ah, the joys of a bus pass. I had to wait a bit though, so I walked down to the supermarket where I got interviewed by some Brussels radio station about Michael Jackson's death... They asked for my reaction, I was like... uhm... c'est triste? I def didn't know what to [View Full Entry]

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Ok it’s decided, I’m coming back to Berlin next time I’m in Europe, and I’m spending at least another 3 days here… Berlin is by far my favourite city so far, if only for the history of the place. I took the best tour I have EVER been on today, and it was a walking tour, for free. Our guide, Adam, was hilarious and full of interesting info. We started in “Paris Square” which was named that way solely to annoy the French. At one end stands the huge Berlin Gate, with Victoria, Goddess of Victory, looking squarely at the French [View Full Entry]

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Well, we finally encountered customs… at midnight. England, France, Belgium didn’t bother to check us, but the Germans have to check at midnight? I wasn’t pleased to be awoken by guards yelling out “PASSPORTSSSSS” haha. Not cool. People joke there's nothing more frightening than being yelled at in German, and I would have to concur. Again, I didn’t get a single question (what is up with that?) and the only person they questioned was a guy from Malaysia. Ok, “questioned” is the nice way of putting it - let’s just say we spent a good 40min i [View Full Entry]

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I didn’t do much my last day in London, I just headed out to Abbey Road. *starts humming variety of Beatles songs* What should’ve been a 5min walk turned into a 30min adventure since I didn’t bring my map with me and instead of simply turning right, I went about 10 blocks out of my way haha. But I found it. I must say today was the first time I actually didn’t like being alone - def cannot get a shot of yourself walking across the Abbey Road. Oh well. Then I was back on the bus off to Berlin! I [View Full Entry]

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I started things off pretty slow this morning - my feet/legs are still in pain from climbing the Eiffel Tower haha. Of course by slow, I just mean I took the tube everywhere I went, but I still saw a lot. I started at King Cross Station to go hunting for Platform 9 and ¾, (Yes, I’m a Harry Potter nerd =)!) and then headed off to Buckingham Palace. The plan was to see the Changing of the Guard, but by the time I got there the crowd was already thick, so I wandered around Green Park and grabbed some lunch [View Full Entry]

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So, my clever plan to gain an extra hour of sleep by taking the earlier bus to London backfired… since we took the ferry I had to get up and get off to go through border patrol and get on the ferry… at 3am, guh. One plus, I got to see the Cliffs of Dover, although it was too dark to get a decent photo. (Sidenote: why are American border guards so grumpy in comparison to everywhere else I go? France patrol didn‘t ask me a single question, and the UK guy was perfectly fine with the fact I had no [View Full Entry]

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