In Florence you can walk out the door and be confronted with building after building of old time charm. Knowing this, I spent my next two days taking walks around the city while catching up with Suzy and Annie when they were free. My first solo day in Florence was a relatively slow one. I slept late before heading into the city center to wander the streets and find some […]
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Stockholm Palace and More
When you go to bed at night you expect it to be dark. When you wake up at 10am in the morning however you would be fairly comfortable in assuming there would be light around. Yet when I woke from my slumber my first morning in Stockholm it was pitch black. Why you ask? Well I failed to notice that my dorm room had no windows the previous day. I […]
Resting and Sightseeing in Brussels
Waking up after another long day on my feet I found my body rebelling against me. It didn’t want to wake, my feet ached and I had a longing to be sitting on the couch at home watching TV. I knew I couldn’t have my couch so I improvised and settled on my dorm bed. Over the next 3-4 hours I caught up on the happenings of the internet while […]
My First Solo Day
Getting lost is all a part of backpacking so it was natural I would get lost trying to find my hostel after exiting the train station on my first solo day alone in Europe. Little did I know I would spend the entire day getting lost. Arriving at the hostel some 6-7 hours before check in, I was going to have to explore on all of 3 hours plane sleep. […]