The ferry was delayed even further by a bit of rough weather, so we quickly gave up the idea of being able to catch a night-train. Thrown straight into the hustlers, beggars and general differences in culture took us a bit by surprise even though we should have expected it, a man throwing himself at our feet, kissing the ground and our shoes - what's a good responce to that? After a nights sleep the city looks a lot more friendly in daylight, walking around the medina (central town). After walking around and looking at things, trying the local mint-tea and various sweet things we walked up, up and further up the hills. We eventually got out of the crowded areas and to what looked more fancy. The guards outside a big white place, enlightened us ... read more

After recommendations from the ticket clerk we took the train from Porto to Albufeira, a small city not even om our map, but close to Faro in the south of Portugal. It was supposed to be the "party town" of Portugal - something we just had to see... We arrived there at about 22.30 or so, at the train station far out of the city centre. The plan was to catch a bus from there but as we soon discovered the last one left at 19.00. Waited a while by the taxi stop with a bunch of other tourists and then decided walking looked like a good option since no taxis wanted to turn up and the central taxi number had no cabs to send. Some local couple stopped us though, claiming it wasn't a good ... read more

So we've been staying with the Urban House hostel, it's all very basic but the staff is really nice and they arrange lots of activities. On thursday evening we decided to follow along on their Basque Gastronomic tour with traditional basque food and customs. Pri stayed behind doing other stuff though. Thursday Night: This event is held each thursday night and cost €25 to join, and is highly recommended for a nice time. The evening started at the main office with about 20-25 people or so trying to drink wine from a leather sachet. This is done by holding the sachet from a distance of 0.5-1 meter from your mouth and by squeezing the sachet getting the wine to hit your mouth... trying not to miss. A nice surprice was a group of young girls walking ... read more

I'm back in Paris this year too, but now I've got the company of my amigo Viking and his gf Priscila visiting from Brazil. We've been talking about railing through europe for many years now but there's always been something coming in the way to stop us. This year - before getting too old to get the interrail youth-pass we figured was the time! After some last-minute late night packing we began our journey by going to Stockholm monday morning to buy Interrail cards and possibly a Eurail pass for Pri (since she's not from Europe). After some convincing and thanks to a nice guy at Stockholm central it was decided we could all three get interrail cards since Pri had visited here this winter and has applied for a swedish visa. Feels like it's gonna ... read more

I arrived in Berlin last night. After a detour on the wrong train from the airport I found my way to the hostel an hour later then expected ;) Found two guys from Norway who knew this alternative place, it's a community driven café/bar/club where the alternative people gather. Artists, punk-people, homo community, just everyone "else" :) This night they had live performances by a few different Sing & Songwriters and as main artist "Kitty". Small time singer mixing the voice of Elin Sigvardsson with an electric guitarr and drums. All in all I found the place and the people to be more interesting then the music. Didn't bring the camera there unfortunately. Today I walked around in Berlin for hours, went to Checkpoint Charlie and the Topography of Terror exhibition. I'm kind of tired of ... read more