Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Yup, London is definitely another one of my favorite big cities. There's so much to DO in London... you could spend days and not do everything. We only had 3.5, alot in comparison to everywhere else we've been.. and I still didn't get to do nearly everything I would have liked to. Another trip.. another trip.It was definitely fun wandering around London with Harry Potter in mind. lol, I read the whole series during my hardest semester in nursing school. The books were like crack. I'd spend all day at clinical/work, hours studying or reading for school afterwards... and still... I'd squeeze in a few chapters even though I was only going to have a few hours left for precious sleep. I never thought I'd remotely like them (in fact, I was pretty sure ... read more

Geo: 51.054, 3.72169 Ghent... I never would have come across this place if not for Diana's daddy (Diana, our nursing school buddy). Her dad worked there awhile back, and one night when we were studying at Diana's house, he told us all about Ghent and insisted we go. I mean insisted. There was no NOT going. lol. I have to say... if someone is that passionate about a city... I can't see any reason not to go. At first we weren't too sure about it. Our first sight of the place was pretty ghetto-y. We were walking down a canal past run down buildings lookin for our hostel... Then Skeletor walks by us. I mean... this guy's skin was pulled back over his face and I could probably name the different bones. Just say no to ... read more

Geo: 52.3738, 4.89095 Amsterdam was another one of our favorite big cities- that and Munich. There's just soooo much to it. Yes, there's the drugs... the sex... ...and more drugs.... but there's a lot of neat history to it as well. We had our second to the last really long train ride getting into Amsterdam from Prague- 12.5 hours. And we had to be up stupid early... the most stupidest early yet this trip. I mean, there was a freakin FOUR as the first digit. Sigh. 4:45am we were gettin up to trek to the train station, before people were even stumbling home drunk from their night of partying. Needless to say, we passed the eff out on the train, lol. We got really lucky. Most trains have seats in pairs and rows... but some cars ... read more

Geo: 47.5714, 10.7017So, this was actually three different cities, not just Fussen. The Romantic Road is stretched along several cities and towns, and generally include small castles and medieval architecture. We just picked three cities we thought we would like, and explored them over 4 days.Our first stop was Fussen, to visit Neuschwanstein, the castle that Walt Disney designed his after. It was built by King Ludwig II, a young kid, just barely an adult. He was obsessed with swans and Wagnerian opera, and he built his castle in dedication to those themes. The kid was definitely a dreamer, and probably not someone who should be running a country, lol. I liked the way one guy we met put it, "He's like the misunderstood Michael Jackson of his time." His castle was just so over the ... read more

Geo: 47.9972, 7.85377 So, we really only had one day to spend in the Black Forest, due to our first late train. I have to hand it to the Europeans for having a ridiculously efficient and timely train system. The one time our train was late, it was REALLY late. We had a three hour ride from Interlaken to Freiburg, and just 30min from our last stop, the train came to a halt in the middle of nowhere. Several announcements went off in German, of course none of which we understood. Per usual, we just knew something was wrong based on everyone else's reactions. We werent the only two confused travellers, though, so a German guy was translating for another guy. He said that there was an accident on the tracks up ahead, and our train ... read more