STOCKHOLM martijn surprised me with a trip to stockholm as a graduation/christmas present. the best gift i have ever received :). we stayed with our friends michael and monika who had recently moved there. it was really great to see them again as i had spent quite a bit of time with them during my exchange. the lead up to the surprise consisted of many false hints by martijn and his friends (particularly michael and joris). i was already wracking my brain to fi...

fries and beer: the only food groups with only a couple weeks before i left for canada, martijn and i took a two day trip together. our first trip, actually. the destination?? brussels. i had some apprehension about the city we chose since i didn't fancy antwerp too much, but as long as martijn was there i knew it would be a great trip!! and it did not disappoint. we opted to try out a secret hotel webpage which a friend had recommended to me. basically you say...

venice for the last few days of our european adventure, jo and i took a train a few hours north to venice. it was a quiet ride, and i could tell that our exhaustion from travelling for four weeks was catching up to both of us. luckily, venice turned into the most relaxing part of our entire trip. we stayed at a hostel just outside of venice. it is way to expensive for us budget travellers to stay within venice's watery border so we bussed it in every mornin...

roma roma roma!! heaven is a word that comes to mind when attempting to describe rome. italian pizza, genuine pasta, gelato and some of the most interesting and impressive historical sites in the world!! how are there cities in the world like this?? our travel to rome was the most convuluted ever!! we had gone the cheapest way possible which inevitably meant a less direct route...MUCH less direct. our route took us from a bus to the tilburg train station, on a ...

CITY OF LOVE paris - a must see of europe. this was my second time visiting, but such an entirely different experience than the first when i was with my parents. we took a bus to paris from eindhoven for 22 euro...return!! (why europeans don't travel more, i have no idea). after six hours we had arrived. jo was stoked to be here, as was i. our hostel was "montclaire montmarte" which sat at the bottom of the hill sacre couer was atop. we spent a few ni...