Our cruise ship pulled into a cold Stockholm harbour a little after 10:30 on Saturday 10 November. We were quite impressed to find a mobile tourist information car parked right outside, which provided us with a city map and pointed us on our way. We had arranged to do CouchSurfing in Stockholm which we were quite excited about, so we bought our travel cards at the nearest metro station and made our way to our host's house. Ramon & Daniela were at the sta...

Our bus pulled into the main bus station in Riga on a cold and rainy afternoon on Thursday 8 November. Fortunately our hostel wasn't too far a walk and soon we were warming up at the bar with our much appreciated welcome drink :-) Once we had settled into our room, we decided to walk down to the ferry terminal to book our onward tickets, and then stopped at a grocery store on the way back to pick up some things for dinner. We ate dinner at the hostel and then...

Our train up from Warsaw finally pulled into Vilnius main station in the late evening on Tuesday 6 November. It was cold, dark and raining when we arrived, so we were glad that our hostel was just a short walk away. We dropped our bags in the room and walked back to the shopping center in the rain to buy some groceries for dinner which Monique transformed into another delicious meal :-) Afterwards we did a bit of admin before heading off to bed. Wednesday we ...

On our way up to Vilnius we were scheduled to change trains in Warsaw. We were up pretty early in the morning to pack up our things and soon began to wonder just when we were going to arrive... We thought the train was running late, so it was only when the conductor next came around that we realised exactly what was going on - we must have read the timetable wrong and had completely missed it :-/ So we got off at the next station in a town called Mława, and...

Our overnight train from Budapest pulled into Krakow main station just as the sun was rising on Saturday 3 November. We found a small cafe nearby where we had some coffee and pastries for breakfast while we waited for the tourist information office to open. After about an hour we gave up and just went to drop our things at the hostel and then dashed back to the main market square to catch a walking tour of the city. The tour was really interesting and took us p...