Merhaba from Turkey. We arrived here late on the overnight traın from Thesaloniki, Greece. The train was actually pretty good, and was the first sleeper we've ever been on- not bad considering the number of overnight trains we've actually done. They file everyone out of the train at 2 in the morning for border formalities. They line you up and then call out names. What started as David from Australıa ended up as Aussie Dave when it got to us- and typically, I ...

Niko from Greece We flew into Athens, and after a packed metro ride,marched our way down to the Pagration Hostel, which is a green door leading to a halfway house with strange rules like no clogs allowed. We did however meet Brett and Melissa from Coffs Harbour, with whom we had a ball, and after seeing Athens, went to the island of Santorini with them. By the way the Greeks are actually repairing the ancient ruins and most are covered in scaffolding. Maybe we ...

Guten Tag from Bavaria. Well the reason we came back to Germany was for Oktoberfest, and it was good, not as good as 3 years ago, must be getting old. The beer has gotten more expensive, and we were there too late in the day to get into the best tents. So we went to Lowenbrau, which was a bit calmer, and ended up sitting with some Italian soccer players and some German schoolboys, who had left an excursion early to come. They're allowed to drink beer and wine fr...

Guten Tag from Austria. We were only here for 2 nights after taking an overnight train from Romania, and headed straight to Salzburg. The weather was originally very good, and ater setting ourselves up in a B&B (which was cheaper than staying at a hostel), we headed off to climb a mountain. The original intention was to hike up to an ice cave, so we consulted the map and the signs, and chose a path that would take us directly there. After about 45 minutes t...

Salut from Romania We got here on a sleepless overnight train from Croatia via Budapest. We went straight to Brasov in Transylvania, where the first thing we saw was 2 Aussies pay $50 for 75cent bus tickets to get across town. We walked, and ended up in the same hostel as them. We didn't raise the issue with them though. Of course after being on a train all night, there was no need to sleep, so we climbed a hill instead, where we joined some kids playing truant...