Both Brendan and I were super pumped to get to Belgium. Brendan for the beer, and for me the chocolate. We flew into Brussels from Warsaw and once we were there, had to catch the train to Bruges. It only took about 50 minutes, it was super quick. As we were walking from the train station to our hotel it started to rain, so we rocked up looking like drowned rats. Our hotel was located perfectly, smack bang in the centre square and the room was quite decent. We du...

We never actually planned on heading to Poland before we left. I had wanted to go but didn't think we would be able to fit it in. We had only booked our flights four days before we actually left, so it was all pretty exciting. Warsaw surprised us both. I loved Poland and am so happy we managed to squeeze in a couple of nights. I really wished we had more time so we could have explored the country a lot more, and hit up a few more towns. It's definitely a country ...

We arrived in Turku well prepared, thanks to the map Natalie had supplied us with. The hostel we stayed at is located along the river, and we were in walking distance of everything we needed. From the station we walked past a couple of parks and there are trees everywhere. There were orange and yellow leaves all over the ground, and it was the first town we have visited that made us realize it is autumn. Turku is a gorgeous small town, we both wises we had a lit...

Our stay in Helsinki was another short one, as we were only there for one night, so we had to make the most of it. We arrived in from Saint Petersburg early in the morning on the train. It was nice not having to go through security to leave the station after Russia. When we got to our hostel we dumped our bags and we headed out. We walked along and found a small market. We were pretty excited, they had a lot of locals food and produce and also, a lot of fish. L...

Saint Petersburg - or St. P'sdaddy as I like to call it against Brendan's wishes, due to high levels of gangsta - is the place to be in Russian. It was my favourite out of the two by far. A lot more people speak English and the inner city is a lot less hectic than Moscow, and we saw three monkeys in people clothes which was exciting. We caught the train out of Moscow at 1:00am and were excited to find our little cabin came with the works. We had sheets doonas a...