Bonjour fellow internet people! I'm currently writing this from my Airbnb in Paris. It's been a while and I've been jotting notes down on paper (like a prehistoric, I know) and I figured it was a good time to share the progress.
I'm also tracking my trip with Polarsteps. Here's my trip link if you want to take a peak at my adventure!
Okay so I wrote these sections whenever I had some free time. Hope you enjoy!
May 29, 2017
Landed in Munich, spent the day there. Went to some famous restaurant for lunch, explored the Olympic park and walked around the city. (We were only there for an afternoon so didn't do too much).
We travelled back to Liechtenstein, where my travel buddy lives, and hung out for a couple days. Visited some mountains around there, had a MASSIVE schnitzel in Austria (like a 6-minute drive from his house), went out drinking with his friends (locals) and took a cable car to the top of Santis mountain in the Alps.
Six hours on a train later and we're in Vienna, Austria. We explored around the hostel and went on a palace tour. We went to the zoo, although it wasn't too eventful, we hardly saw any cool animals. We did see a polar bear though! And penguins, they're always awesome.
May 31, 2017
After walking around Vienna for what seemed like forever since the Natural History Museum was closed, we ended up going from plaza to plaza in Vienna. Took a ride on the oldest operating Ferris wheel in Europe (I think) and had some great views of the city.
Finally, for dinner, we went to Vapiano, a chain Italian restaurant that is the equivalent of Subway for pasta. They make the pasta right in front of you! It was so cool and tasted fantastic. Obviously, I had linguini. It was tutto benne!
In the hostel, we met a guy named Ritchie, who was older, maybe 40s. Guy has been travelling for 2 years and has 1 more! He's been to 50 countries and has a goal to hit 80. That is insane! Cool guy though, turns out he was from Toronto, too. What are the chances the first traveller we meet lives an hours drive from my house. He travelled with one of those folding bikes; actually, quite a few people do.
Currently writing this waiting for the train from Vienna to Budapest, will update soon!
June 3, 2017
So Budapest was interesting. Everything was kinda old looking, the metro trains could have been from 1910, the whole city kind of looked like it didn't exactly recover from the war in some places. But other places looked crazy cool with stunning architecture. It has a weird vibe. The food in Budapest wasn't anything special and the people weren't very friendly, but the hostel was nice.
We met some cool people in our hostel, a bunch of Irish guys who we couldn't really understand, a South African who was really cool and an English girl who could have voice doubled Hermoine in Harry Potter. The latter two actually work on cruise ships 9 months of the year and are travelling the rest of it. What a life eh.
There wasn't too much to see there, but what we did see was neat. The architecture was so different than what I've seen before, (however similar to the rest of Europe as I'm seeing with each new city).
I kind of preferred Vienna to Budapest, something about the people and vibe there just wasn't comfortable, but still, a cool place to see.
A short 3-hour train ride brings us to our next stop in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Again, not a whole lot to see here, but we explored the "old city" quite a bit. Tons of bars and restaurants around. We hiked up to visit the castle and lucky us there was this festival thing there. Super cheap beer (5 beers for 6 euros!) and we drank most of the afternoon overlooking the entire city. It was a good time.
Currently waiting for the train to Prague.
This is getting a tad long so I will post another soon! Thanks for reading and see you next time!
If you'd like to keep reading, you can find Part 2 here.
J
I'm also tracking my trip with Polarsteps. Here's my trip link if you want to take a peak at my adventure!
Okay so I wrote these sections whenever I had some free time. Hope you enjoy!
May 29, 2017
Landed in Munich, spent the day there. Went to some famous restaurant for lunch, explored the Olympic park and walked around the city. (We were only there for an afternoon so didn't do too much).
We travelled back to Liechtenstein, where my travel buddy lives, and hung out for a couple days. Visited some mountains around there, had a MASSIVE schnitzel in Austria (like a 6-minute drive from his house), went out drinking with his friends (locals) and took a cable car to the top of Santis mountain in the Alps.
Six hours on a train later and we're in Vienna, Austria. We explored around the hostel and went on a palace tour. We went to the zoo, although it wasn't too eventful, we hardly saw any cool animals. We did see a polar bear though! And penguins, they're always awesome.
May 31, 2017
After walking around Vienna for what seemed like forever since the Natural History Museum was closed, we ended up going from plaza to plaza in Vienna. Took a ride on the oldest operating Ferris wheel in Europe (I think) and had some great views of the city.
Finally, for dinner, we went to Vapiano, a chain Italian restaurant that is the equivalent of Subway for pasta. They make the pasta right in front of you! It was so cool and tasted fantastic. Obviously, I had linguini. It was tutto benne!
In the hostel, we met a guy named Ritchie, who was older, maybe 40s. Guy has been travelling for 2 years and has 1 more! He's been to 50 countries and has a goal to hit 80. That is insane! Cool guy though, turns out he was from Toronto, too. What are the chances the first traveller we meet lives an hours drive from my house. He travelled with one of those folding bikes; actually, quite a few people do.
Currently writing this waiting for the train from Vienna to Budapest, will update soon!
June 3, 2017
So Budapest was interesting. Everything was kinda old looking, the metro trains could have been from 1910, the whole city kind of looked like it didn't exactly recover from the war in some places. But other places looked crazy cool with stunning architecture. It has a weird vibe. The food in Budapest wasn't anything special and the people weren't very friendly, but the hostel was nice.
We met some cool people in our hostel, a bunch of Irish guys who we couldn't really understand, a South African who was really cool and an English girl who could have voice doubled Hermoine in Harry Potter. The latter two actually work on cruise ships 9 months of the year and are travelling the rest of it. What a life eh.
There wasn't too much to see there, but what we did see was neat. The architecture was so different than what I've seen before, (however similar to the rest of Europe as I'm seeing with each new city).
I kind of preferred Vienna to Budapest, something about the people and vibe there just wasn't comfortable, but still, a cool place to see.
A short 3-hour train ride brings us to our next stop in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Again, not a whole lot to see here, but we explored the "old city" quite a bit. Tons of bars and restaurants around. We hiked up to visit the castle and lucky us there was this festival thing there. Super cheap beer (5 beers for 6 euros!) and we drank most of the afternoon overlooking the entire city. It was a good time.
Currently waiting for the train to Prague.
This is getting a tad long so I will post another soon! Thanks for reading and see you next time!
If you'd like to keep reading, you can find Part 2 here.
J
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