I think Liechtenstein has it in for me, after the comments I made about it being a small and boring country. I reluctantly camped just outside of Vaduz last night, not wanting to wander into Switzerland until the next day. I was still feeling a bit homesick and had found a campsite and a McDonald’s,…
View MoreWe drove into Liechtenstein a few hours ago, and I said goodbye to Hannah and James. They’ve left me to take the rental car back to Munich, and they fly home tonight. I think the buggers plan on hitting the Hoffbrau Haus beer hall before they jump on the plane. Wish I was there too,…
View MoreWell if you thought night trains were bad, you should steer well away from the night buses! At least they are safer and generally nicer, but for comfort they rank at the bottom of the pile. Thankfully the three of us managed to snatch the whole back seat so we were able to stretch out…
View MoreAfter my night train experience from Krakow, I was dumped in the centre of Prague at around 6am. On the positive I had the whole day to look forward to, and on the negative, all I wanted to do was catch up on some sleep, but this wasn’t going to happen because I couldn’t even…
View MoreThe night train from Prague was a test of endurance and dare I say if I had not been the seasoned traveller that I am now, it could have been downright intimidating and alarming. Not that anything bad really happened, but the nightly service from Krakow – Prague is not known for its luxury.
View MoreNo matter what you think you know about the history of World War II and the atrocities that occurred under Nazi Germany, you really haven’t got the full picture, and the full understanding of it, until you have made a visit to the Auschwitz Concentration Camps, near Krakow, Poland. For a backpacker heading through this…
View MoreI changed plans at the last minute, canned my night in Katowice and headed for the nearby city of Krakow. I was in the area primarily to visit the Auschwitz camps, but Lonely Planet convinced me that Krakow was going to shit all over Katowice in terms of being a nice place to visit. Well,…
View MoreDober Dan! Greetings from Poland. I’m here after leaving Riga, heading south through country Latvia and crossing through Lithuania into Poland. The party on the lake the night before had ended well. Karlis’ Brother Gustav, having just gained his driver’s license, had enthusiastically taken on the role of designated driver to and from the party….
View MoreHeading further south into the former Soviet ‘Iron Curtain’ region, I was entering unfamiliar places and for the first time in my trip, I found myself with very little knowledge of the countries that lay ahead of me. Before leaving London I had meticulously planned out the first few weeks, with the exception of a…
View MoreI arrived in Tallinn, the ferry docking in the early afternoon which gave me a little bit of time to check out the UNESCO world heritage listed Old Town, before finding my way to my hosts’ house, about 2km from the city centre. The Old Town was fantastic, and probably the best view of it…
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