Ljubljana, Slovenia July 26-27, 2008 After finishing up our finals on Friday night, we hopped a late train to Ljubljana, Slovenia.We had to sleep in Saarbrucken (our favorite) for four hours but luckily it was much warmer this time than on our first trip.We arrived in Ljubljana around 5:00 pm (about 18 hours after we left Metz) and headed to our hostel.Our hostel was very nice.Our room had six beds, a kitchen, and a full bathroom.One of our roommates was from...

Venice, Italy July 28, 2008 We arrived in Venice around 7:30 am from our overnight train and checked our baggage in the luggage room.We headed out walking towards San Marco Square.The whole time Danny kept saying he knew where he was going…just following the signs and "keeping the canal to my right," but Laura doubted the whole time until we finally got there.We detoured a little (intentionally???) to see the Rialto Bridge and check on gondola...

Cascais, PortugalJuly 30-August 2, 2008It's hard to believe that I am writing this from our LAST hostel at our last stop on this three-month adventure. It seemed like this day would never come and now that it has, it is bittersweet. Both Danny and I are ready to be home, but sad to see this wonderful summer come to an end. Portugal has been a great place to wrap up our travels. Cascais is a small beach town about 45 minutes from Lisbon. Although we had quite...

Danny writing here: This past weekend was our last time with Nick, so we decided to make it a good one and see as much of Germany as we could that we haven't seen already, and give it some contrast to the big cities that Nick has seen so far. Nick arrived in Metz and hopped on a bus to GTL. I met him at the bus stop and we headed to my room to drop off the suitcases, shower up and pack up for the weekend. We went into Metz and walked around for 2 hour...

Nice & the French Riviera, FranceJune 28-29, 2008Sorry we are so far behind on our blogs. School is keeping us SO busy! Our weekend on the French Riviera was a lot of fun! We took an overnight train from Metz to Nice and had a couchette (our first couchette experience!). Luckily, we were FINALLY able to get reservations on these trains after being repeatedly told they were sold out up until about 2 weeks before. (In Munich, they told us that groups of Ko...