BELFAST The bus to belfast was fine. It took about 2.5 hours, but it stank. There were some girls behind me putting on their faces for the night. They looked like slappers and the nail polish smell plus the aroma from all the other chemicals was really over whelming. The bus did have one cool feature though. The TV at the front of the bus was showing a picture from a video camera mounted to the front of the bus. So it almost gave the effect of sitting in the pa...

DUBLIN IRELAND Day 125 Friday Dec4 0640 I’m on my way out of pariss on the bus to the airport. With out exaggerating I ran for just over an hour to get the bus. I was at a bar crawl last night I left the last place at 0500 trying to get a cab. None were around so by 0520 I started running. I ran past the Eiffel tower and I got back to Benoit’s at 0600. The plan was to leave at 0600. Luckily I’d packed already. So I grabbed my towel out of the bathroom....

PARIS Day 123 Wednesday Dec2 1020. My train pulled into Gare de Austerlitz station at 740. And I stepped out into the frigid Parisian morning. It was fresh. I was so glad I’d put my scarf on. I walked down to the metro and 3 metro rides later I was out at Porte Dauphine, just near where my host lives, 10 mins walk from the Eiffel tower. After a short wait outside the station my host approached me. He’s a funny looking French guy. Short, with a narrow s...

Nice + Monocco Day 121 Monday Nov30 1115 I had a pretty average sleep last night. It was pretty broken, both from traffic noises outside and other people in the hostel. Though the main thing was I couldn’t work out how to turn off the main lights for the room. I was in the corner and there was a decent curtain keeping me segregated but it still shone through a little. So I spent most the night just dozing. I’d set my alarm for 0600 and woke up at 0605....

Barcelona Day 119 Saturday Nov28 1310 My alarm went off this morning at 0600. The plan being to get the 0700 train to Barcelona. This wasn’t happening though and I’d written off the idea the previous night. However I’d forgotton to turn off the alarm. I was struggling with this too at 6. For some reason I thought it was my computer and stuffed around with that for 5 minutes before I realized it was my phone, switching that off I went back to sleep. I...