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The path from the airplane door to the entrance to our hotel in Kuwait was reminiscent of a classic video game: you have to overcome multiple hurdles, or levels if you will, to get to the next, until you reach your final destination. First up was the...

So I am in Amman on the first leg of the usual annual tour. Great to meet up with old trip buddies as always. On Thursday we went to Tafileh, a rural town a couple hour south (?) of Amman. Funny day. After the fair, they took us on this "tour" of the...

..but I still haven't got around to posting the rest of the entries from last summers trip to Europe. Hell, I almost forgot I even had a blog. The fall semester has started and its chockfull of fun: a full-time job and a full credit load. Probably not a...

My guidebook revealed that the first Sunday of every month was free admission day to all museums on the Mueseuminsl (Museum Island) in Berlin. Today was the first Sunday in June, so off to Museuminsel I went. On arrival, I found out that the info was out...

I had breakfast with Marc and Angela and decided to go down to the Fan Mile stretching the length between the Brandenburger Tor to the Victory Pillar. The weather was great. The games of the day were Britain vs. Portugal and Brazil Vs. France. The place...

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...

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...