Florence was well…OK. Having a sinus infection has not helped the trip to Florence be enjoyable, but I think the city it self would have been just alright anyway. It is the most tourist packed city I have been to yet, almost every street you were walking shoulder to shoulder with tourists. The architecture in the city as per all of Europe was beautiful, the weather while I have been here has been amazing except there was a serious thunder storm for an hour or so one day . I only went in to Florence city twice, I have had 3 days of rest in the beautiful countryside hoping that relaxing will fix my stupid sinus. So I have watched a lot of TV episodes (finished Dead Like Me) and documentaries, I’m also ready a book ... read more

I met some people after breakfast and just spoke with them till around 11. A couple of Americans I met said they were going in to the city, I had to go to the city so the invited me. I organized my train from Amsterdam to Maastricht, as I only just found out that the airport I booked my ticket through is on the border of Belgium and The Netherlands , so I have to travel for 2.5 hours before I can catch my plane…lucky I booked it for 2pm! I arranged that, then Simon and Mikala suggested hitting up a coffee shop and I thought that to be a grand idea. We chillaxed for around half an hour and then they decided that they were going to the markets, as I had yet to see ... read more

I went on the New Europe tour for Amsterdam, it was ok. It would have been awesome but it was the tour guides first time so she didn’t have the same enthusiasm as the other tour guides I have had, but it was still good. After learning a bit about Amsterdam and while I was out and about I thought I might as well check out the city. I just picked a direction and walked that way, I ended up just sitting and chilling on a canal, watching people cruise past in tug boats, dingies, etc (also there is no benches to sit on anywhere in the streets!). This city is amazing! It’s so strange being in a city that has so many canals, people living on the water, then you have the coffee shops and ... read more

The train ride form Dusseldorf was 2.5 hours which is awesome. I was only a 5 minute walk to Bob’s hostel and I was pleasantly surprised hat it’s actually in the Red Light District. I checked in and then dragged my stuff up 4 flights of steep steps that are so small you can only just get your footing on . I got setup and as I was doing so I met an Irish man (well he’s 20) called Steve, and he’s extremely hard to understand. He speaks quite softly and he has a really thick Irish accent, he said that he’s from Cork and he can speak some native language as in he uses different words for things and it won’t make sense. Anyway…he said he was going out on a coffee shop crawl by ... read more

I got up and decided I would go to the Eastside Gallery (which is the longest piece of the Berlin wall left standing), it took me about a half hour to walk there but it was definitely well worth it! At the moment the wall is being repainted by professional (well at least really good) artists. I think I took photos of nearly every piece of art, it was so good. I didn’t think the gallery was so long, it would have at least been around 2km or so. There is an old part of the wall that they have yet to get to and paint properly so it’s covered in graffiti and people write their own comments on there, I thought I would leave my own mark (look at the photo). I walked down the ... read more