Caio! Boujounro! So I wen't to venice for my last weekend here in europe and it was by far one of the best things that I did. This city is truly amazing. Everywhere you look there is water running down picturesque ally ways and by these gorgeous buildings. The pictures that I saw really did not do it justice. When I got off the train I was in disbelief. There is so much to take in. You just look around and ask yourself, could this be real? Well it is ...

So here I am in Austira. I flew down here monday night after leaving Elena in Hamburg. It was probably one of the best short flights I had ever taken. It was only about an hour and a half, but the plan was rather new, had leather seats and the staff were really together and it even had the inflight map of where you are. This was pretty good for a budget airline. I got into vienna around 6 that night and took the train into town. My friend Marjan had sent me g...

If it's wednesday it must be Berlin! What a week this has been. I have been somewhere new almost every day this week. Monday was amsterdam, tuesday was the train to berlin, wednesday was Berlin, thrusday was wolfsburg, friday was munster and saturday and sunday are Hamburg! I have seen a lot and had a lot of very intersting experiences and I will try to cover a couple of them in this blog. Berlin. What a city. This has to be one of the biggest surprises that ...

So today I got a chance to do something I think very few American's will ever do. I went beyond Amsterdam, in a country where many think Amsterdam is the country. Today Eva took me to the town where she grew up. So this is a small town of about 12,000 ( hey! sounds like newport!) and it is really different than Amsterdam or even Utrecht. We took the train in the morning here and crossed most of the country, about 1 & a half hours, and her dad met us at the t...

So I am in Holland with Elena and our friend Eva who lives here in Utrecht. Now when I started this trip for all I knew Amsterdam was the only part of Holland worth going to and that the best thing to do was troll the red light district or go to a coffe shop. I had no expectations of what this country would be like, I just knew it would be nice to see Eva. Well I have been totally blown away by it here. So wednesday Elena and I took the train from Koblenz to Utr...