Hej, We woke up very early to leave Mariestad so we could arrive in Oslo at a time that would maximize our time in the city. After several transfers, we arrived in Oslo around 1pm. We dumped our stuff in the hostel, which was decent enough, and then we headed out to see stuff. Typical for our trip, the Domkirke (cathedral) was completely underscaffolding so we were un-able to go inside. We headed down the walking street Karl Johans Gate, past the Parliament, National Theatre and the University to The Royal Palace. The Royal Palace is set in a nice park [View Full Entry]

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Hello Peter and Kif blog fans, So we got off our nice little Titanic feeling ferry ride from Riga to Stockholm. Our goal of the day was Kif's hometown of Mariestad, Sweden. Now Mariestad, or M-stad, is roughly a 3 hr train ride from Stockholm. Nice and easy right? Not so much, we tried to get the direct tickets at Stockholm central to Mariestad. However, it was Friday, apparently a very popular day to get out of Stockholm. So our only option for a direct train was at 6pm. It was 8am when we were trying to get the tickets. So [View Full Entry]

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Hello, After the miserable night bus ride, we arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania. Night busses are the bane of our existance, but sometimes they are out of necessity as was mentioned in the lat blog post. We arrived in Vilnius around 6am, and we trudged over to our hostel which was called the VB Sleep Inn. The hostel is essentially an overgrown house where you have to take your shoes off at the door and everyone hangs out and talks to each other. It was a great atmosphere. We dropped off our luggage and started walking around Vilnius which is supposed to [View Full Entry]

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Hey, Our arrival into Poland wasn't quite as smooth as we wanted. After hearing so many stories about people getting robbed on night trains, we decided to throw caution to the wind and take a day train from Berlin to Krakow. 11 insanely mind-numbing hours later, we arrived in the city. We pretty much forgot about the train ride after we got into the Old Town. It was gorgeous! We were walking through the main square, and we tracked down our hostel which happened to be on the main square. We got to our room, and opened the window and we [View Full Entry]

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Hello, So we decided that we had a couple of nights to kill and after hearing so many good things about the city, we took everyones advice and decided to go to Berlin. We were not dissapointed. We left Vienna at the crack of dawn because it was going to be 9 hours from there via Nuremburg to Berlin. We did luck out though and we sat at the very front of the train so it felt a little bit like we were driving the thing! Also, the engineer was holding an ice cream cone as he was travelling at 180 [View Full Entry]

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Hello again, We are in Vienna now. It is fantastic. We arrived in the morning, and checked into the famed Wombats Hostel The Base in Vienna. It is great, but we have stayed in some nicer hostels this trip. We decided that there was so much to see in Vienna that 5 nights was in order. Not to mention that Vienna was one of the host cities for this little tournament called the European Championships (Soccer for those living under a rock). We wandered aroung the Ringstrasse, which is a ring road that was built on the site of the former [View Full Entry]

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So we´re in Prague now, and it´s fantastic. We arrived late at night, and wandered around the Old Town Square and Charles Bridge. Everything was lit up and the sites were only 2 minutes from our hostel. We decided to wander around the left bank of the Vltava River and we planned to leave the hostel around 10am. Or at least that was the plan. So we had 4 roomies from California who went out drinking pretty heavily. 2 of them got into the room without issue, the other 2 had a little bit more difficulty. You see, door handles and [View Full Entry]

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Here are some much awaited photos up to Munich. Enjoy!!! [View Full Entry]

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Hello All, Despite the ups and downs of our Eastern European Road trip, we decided that we still should give it another shot. We hopped on a night train (the nicest night train that we have been on so far), and headed off to Ukraine. When we boarded the train, we ran into 6 Edmontonians who were on a 6 week study trip (essentially and extended vacation with 9 hours of class a week and excursions on Tuesdays and Thursdays) to Lviv, the city that we were going to. They all had Ukrainian parents, and all were fluent in both English [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so we got to Budapest and it was a haven after the little eastern swing we had. It is very beautiful with many interesting sights and historically filled stuff. It is made up of Buda and Pest, Pest has all the places to stay and eat whilst Buda has all the historical sights and such. So we arrived pretty early thanks to our stellar night train from Romania. We got in early so we dropped off our bags and walked around to get a feel for our surroundings. We came across a giant church called St. Stephen's Basilica. The [View Full Entry]

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