People often ask me how I pay for all my travels. To be honest, it depends. I’ve had about half of my trips paid for by other organizations and I’ve paid for the other half out of pocket. For my backpacking trip through Europe,…
After 3 months of travel, I was excited to be going home. I’d had a fantastic time seeing as much of Europe as I could, but I was also tired and I missed my family. I was gearing up to move to Madrid for…
I arrived in Nice late at night after a 13 hour train ride. I’d originally planned on stopping in Marseille, but found myself tight on time and funds, so I decided to skip that stop. I was so tired after my trip that I…
After hobbling my way around Rome and the Vatican City on my bum ankle, I decided to really push it and spend a day limping around Pompeii. Most people that I’ve talked to have done Pompeii as a day trip from Naples. I wasn’t…
I feel like I should start this post by mentioning that I’m not a religious person. I’ve surprised some people in the past when I’ve told them that I visited Vatican City. However, this is such an important historical location that regardless of one’s…
Rome was one of the places I was most excited to see, although I was starting to have a hard time getting around. Remember my little mishap in Budapest? I was starting to think that I’d really injured my ankle as I couldn’t walk…
I was excited and a little nervous to go to Venice. I’d been looking forward to this stop for months as I’d heard so many amazing things about this city. But I was also a bit apprehensive about the type of people that I…
Out of all the countries that I was visiting on my trip around Europe, I was most excited to go to Italy. In case you haven’t noticed in my previous posts, I’m a bit of a nerd; I love history, art, archeology, etc. In…
There have been very few places that I’ve traveled where I felt like I could’ve have skipped, but that’s pretty much how I felt in Zurich. Aside from a stop to Kunsthaus Zurich, where I was introduced to couple new artists, I found the…
After visiting Sachenhausen earlier in my trip, which was a built as a workers camp, I decided to change my travel plans so that I could visit Munich, specifically because I wanted to see Dachau. Backpacking through Europe and visiting sites from World War…