Blogs from Europe - page 11368

Geo: 38.7072, -9.13552When I got back to Lisbon, I headed towards the elevator. After waiting only 10 minutes in the queue, I was up the top. It was very cosy up here, especially with a cafe here! It was a great view of Lisbon. I could see the cathedral, river, the castle on the hill and some of the city's squares.... read more

Hey all! Soooo we're in FLORENCE ITALY now! woot! our hostel doesn't open up to our rooms till 2:30pm, and i have massive cramps (darn girl problems.), so we've decided to take it easy, and just use the internet! oh yea, guys, remember to subscribe to this blog if u wanna get e-mails everytime i updated! just scroll down and look to the right and press subscribe! So i'll tell ya'all about Barcelona! We're definitely very sad to be gone, but excited for Italy! Oh yea, so I'm warning you guys, this is gonna be a doozy of a blog, jus cuz, i'm writing down everything!! so really, no pressure to read all this! cuz this way doubles as a update tool and a personal journal for me and ruby to remember this trip! so if ... read more

OKAY guys: as promised, here's the actual writing for the florence BLog! yayyyy! insert cheering here. SO. Florence, Italy! Well, the first day ended up with me being permanently stuck to a chair due to massive stomach cramps, followed by an incredibly long and heavy thunder storm. So of course, we did one of our favourite things this trip: we napped. After waking up, Ruby and I headed out to explore and to get dinner. We immediately realized the differences between Florence and Barcelona. I myself found it to be a lot less "chill". A lot less greeneries, less cafes, less places to just sit and people watch, and less parks. the sidewalks are also soooo narrow that in many places, there's only enough space for people to walk one person at a time... despite all ... read more

Currently I am sitting at a hostel in Vienna which is surprisingly very nice and clean. But, before arriving in Vienna myself and 5 of my comrades ventured slightly east to the city of Bratislava in Slovakia. The 5 hour train ride from Prague to Bratislava was priceless. Just sitting back and enjoying the extensive green countryside and small cottage villages over a beer with 5 friends was a memorable time. When we arrived in the city it did seem a little less sanitary than we have been experiencing in Prague but we soon found that it was just a less desirable area of town. When we arrived at our Hostel (btw this city is where the recent horror movie Hostel took place, kinda intense) we immediately checked in and hustled downtown since we were only ... read more

While being in Poland we were told by others we ran into throughout our trip that we should go to Auschwitz because it does something to you that pictures and hearsay just cannot do. The best way to describe the visit is, "powerful." Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp during from 1940-1945. It housed at any given time 90,000 inmates’ 90% of which were Jewish. What makes the statistic even more horrible is the fact that the 90,000 were made up of 1/4th of those who were allowed to live when they arrived at Auschwitz. 70-75% of those who made it to Auschwitz were gassed instantly. Walking the same path where people were told they were going to take a shower and then were brutally murdered was heart-stopping. The gas chambers were a horrendous last sight ... read more