It's certainly hard to write when you're jet-lagged, so I'll write a brief itinerary from where I left off. Munich, Germany: We went to the Dachau Concentration Memorial Site. It was extremely depressing, and both my mom and I cried bucket loads of tears. We then spent the rest of the night until 10:00 (when we needed to leave for our train to Amsterdam) at the hostel talking to Lucas, another Brazilian we met. Amsterdam: Our first day there was really only an af...

Today was spent riding the train, passing time with solitaire and looking out the window. We got to Salzburg, Austria around 2:00 PM. After checking into our hotel and putting down our bags, we went to check out different salt mine tours. They were all done for the day, but we couldn't do them tomorrow because our train leaves at 10:00 AM. So we decided to go change times for our train to Munich, Germany. We succeeded in this, and changed it to 3:00 PM, j...

Sleeping until 11 AM after no sleep on the train was just fine for me, thankfully. We are in Slovenia, the country that owns a 1/4 of my blood, and 1/2 of my dad's blood. This is the place that I've wanted to go all my life. We couldn't miss Lake Bled, so we took the hour bus ride to Bled. There, we marveled at the natural beauty of it all. The lake was from a glacier, it is a clear, perfect blue and the mountains make a beautiful back drop. The little,...

This morning we had to check out of our B&B. We had a very nice breakfast outside then took our bags and left. Our host drove us to the bus stop thankfully, then from there we headed towards the train station. As we walked in, we looked for the luggage drop-off. The line stretched for what seemed like miles. We got in line, and waited somewhat patiently as the time wore on. Finally, we made it to the counter (over an hour!). We checked i...

Today we took the train from Cinque Terre to Florence. On the train to Florence, we met a family from Pittsburgh. The man's life could have been a movie; he grew up in Italy, moved to Pittsburgh at a young age, he didn't know any English or American ways, he got beaten up... It was amazing to hear what he had to say. Now, he was taking his family (4 kids aged 8, 10, 13, and 16 and wife to meet their extended family. The last time they were there was 17 years ago...