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Second rule of budget travel: If you intend to extend your stay, pay for your hostel bed in advance the night before. I got kicked out of the hostel in Amsterdam the following day because, unbeknown to me, you can't extend your stay in the morning...

Spent the day wandering the streets of Brussels. Well at least Central brussels. The Grand' Place-Grote Markt area is awesome. The architectural attention to detail in the Gothic buildings is mind-blowing. You can just stand there and stare for 20...

First rule of budget travel: make advance hostel bookings in the high seasons to avoid unnecessary hassles as exemplified below. Arrived in Paris and headed straight to the hostel as planned. They had no available beds. Nice. I should've made the...

I was just thinking how much I hate long flights and how I don't mind excruciatingly long train rides (especially in Euope). Rail travel in Europe is a pleasure. 10 hours of good scenery, a good book, my music and plenty of time to think about anything...

Arrived in Bern at 8:20 and met Bettina, one of my hosts from CouchSurfing who was waiting at the station as agreed. We went to their apartment and I met with the rest of the flat mates: Nils, Simmy and Andrea (3 siblings). They were a really cool and...

At the Trento train station I met up with my friend Julia, who showed me the nice little student town in a valley near the Alps region. I went to Castello Del Buonconsiglio, which is a castle turned into a museum of some really cool gothic and Renaissance...

There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, And world's exile is death... Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Secene III I was actually considering scraping Verona off the...

My hostel in Nice had tiny dorm rooms and a microscopic bathroom. But Nice is nice (excuse the pun). The usual walking and cruising around the city, etc. I did the evening routine of watching a WorldCup game in the hostel's common room (I think it was...

A 4-hour flight to Frankfurt, a 50 minute layover and another one and half hour flight and I landed in Barcelona. An hour later I found my hostel, tucked away in a remote corner of Plaza Real off Las Ramblas. I checked in, threw my pack in the locker and...

First of all, an apology is due for Mike & Jason for bailing out on the Central America trip. That said, I am in Bareclona, Spain now...the first stop of a 3 week trip to Europe. Armed with a rail pass, I drafted a flexible trip plan that is...