Still in Grimmelwald. I recommend to anyone visiting Europe to spend a few days in Murren or Grimmelwald to either hike or just chill out and take in the ridiculously amaying scenery. This hostel (Mountain Hostel) has by far been the best yet. Its extremely low key, a bit older crowd than the bunch at the "party" hostel in Interlaken, but still a great amount of fun. There's a group of really cool English kids who entertain most of the hostel into the wee hours with breakdancing and a few nights ago we had a group of 29 German prisoners who were on some kind of release program for assisting handicapped people in the outdoors, which created a whole different kind of interest from the hostel crowd. The weather here has not been worthy of the ... read more

Alright. This isn't fair. Every country has a different keyboard. Dammit. "Alt-Gr"+2 tp get a "@" sign? Ridiculous ... What a difference a day makes. I woke up, with no Eurail pass and had to get to Interlaken, Switzerland as that was where my lodging reservations were made. Pass showed up early in the morning, was able to make my reseravations forthe train, and made it to Interlaken easily. From the train, Europe seems to have skipped the whole "exburbs" and "McMansions" boom, which was refreshing to see. I get the feeling that if these countries were under American control, everything would have been developed into endless sprawl by now. For whatever reason Switzerland was able to avoid it, I´m thankful. Interlaken rocks. I'm moving here. Interlaken is in the heart of the alps and is ... read more

Finishing my last full day in London. Is London a cool place? Hell yeah. Do I recommend anyone coming to Europe to check out London? You bet. Does London knock my socks off? Not really ... I've been hanging out in a city of 7 million people for the past four days, and that's too many people for my liking. My boogers are black, every day from breathing all the soot-filled air all day and London apparently doesn't believe in trash cans. There's litter everywhere. Even all the top tourist spots. Any future trips here will be to explore the rest of England, Scotland and Ireland. Still, I don't regret at all any of the time spent playing tourist. Parliament was by far my favorite, probably because I just finished law school and my tour guide ... read more