So, this is my first weekend of not traveling in a whole month. I can definitely say that it is relieving to be in Prague with a sense of permanence. However, there were not many others in the dorm this weekend. In my suite it was just three of us! But we decided that we would do something fun this weekend. On Thursday night, we went to Cross Club. Its a really cool bar with weird industrial artwork and fixtures everywhere. Every night they invite an artist or a DJ. Thursday, it was a Reggae DJ. It was really cool. It [View Full Entry]

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We woke up late today because of miles and miles of walking and traveling and sleeping on hard mattresses! Oh and snoring Australians (it was so bad, I had to wake the poor Aussie up). We got out around 9am and skipped breakfast! It is probably a good thing we got an extra hour or two of sleep.. because we had some unexpected surprised coming our way! Last night we planned out our route, so we had a good idea of where were going. First we stopped at the market which was very overwhelming because there were so many people, but [View Full Entry]

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So despite walking a calculated fifteen or plus miles yesterday, we got up bright and early because we had a lot to see before we hopped on a train to Zagreb. First, we went to the train station to get our ticket to Zagreb. Then since I was dreaming about that Mocha I had yesterday, I had to get another! We walked into the main square of the city and where the castle up on a hill was visible. Again, no signs or routes shown, so we just went up and eventually found a trail that took us up to the [View Full Entry]

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We woke up brriiiight and early today.. We had a lot on our list to get done! But first, I needed my coffee!! I went to a cute cafe and asked for a mocha. They looked confused. I told them esspreso+ chocolate and milk = mocha. The put two shots of espresso in my cup and added their "hot chocolate" which was actually melted chocolate bars with milk. Let me tell you, that was the BEST, thickest mocha I have had in my life. We left the city even before we got to explore it.. which was hard but we were [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday was a Czech holiday, so my friend Mark and I planned a last minute trip to Slovenia and Croatia! We planned a round trip ticket from Prague to Slovenia via train (11 hrs) and decided when we got to Ljubljana we'd buy round trip tickets from Slovenia to Zagreb, Croatia... It was an interesting trip to say the least! Our train left Wednesday morning at 7:30am, so we left the Kolej at around 6:45. The trams were slow so we barely made our train... off to a great start! Our connecting train was in Salsburg, Austria. We got off the [View Full Entry]

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Day three... Savanah and I overslept our alarm! So we threw out hair up because we didn't want to miss our free breakfast! We met downstairs with Eva and headed to the Bascila Cistern. We had no idea what it was or what to expect. We were all in awe when we went down the cold creepy stairs and saw the cistern. There are pictures, but basically it was an underground space with pillars and water. But the lights made the scene more dramatic. It was built during the Byzantine era before it was Constantinople in the 6th century! Originally it [View Full Entry]

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We woke up around 7 to get ready and enjoy a nice Turkish breakfast included with our hotel! Like the Outer banks, they often eat meals on the top floor. They even had seating on the roof with overlooked the city (Blue Mosque included) and sea. And it was a beautiful day- T-shirt weather! The breakfast was great because it wasn't what Americans consider breakfast (which I hate). There was bread, feta cheese, sausage, this delicious tomato sauce, and so much more.. They even had an espresso machine! After breakfast, we walked to the Hagia Sofia. Our tour guide met us [View Full Entry]

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We woke up this morning, ate some breakfast, and took the tram to Malastraska, took the metro to Dejaka, and the bus to the airport... the process took us an hour for a 15 minute ride by car. We met Eva, our tour guide for the weekend at the check in desk. She gave us our tickets and a packet of information of what to expect in Istanbul, the city on two continents. Number one... to avoid the most sexual harassment, cover your knees and elbows. We were told to bring scarfs for our heads for the mosques. Eva warned us [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Liverpool Thursday around lunch time and after answering about 100 questions about why I was visiting the UK, I took the bus to my friend's apartment. It was SO nice to hear and speak English! I could actually understand what passerbyers were saying.. It was a refreshing break, although Liverpoolians (yeah I made that up) are a little but hard to understand. I met Maria in the Outer Banks through our random roommate from Virginia.. She's actually from Cyprus (an Island off of Greece), so visiting her in the UK was also a small taste of what Cyprus [View Full Entry]

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Traveling in Europe is pretty cheap.. well, to the UK, not so cheap... However, I found a flight that was only $100 round trip.. not so bad. But here's the catch. It involves a 5 hour layover in Barcelona, yeah that's right, south to go north.. But I can't complain, it was only $100! So my journey began at 2:30am on Wednesday night..uhh..Thursday morning?? I took a taxi to the Prague airport and the plane left at 4:30am.. I slept most of the way. I arrived in Barcelona at 6:30am.. So I can say I've been to Barcelona right? No, wrong, [View Full Entry]

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