Been a busy week and I'm only getting to this now on the train to Paris from Zurich. Munich has not yet faded from my memory, despite the liters of bier consumed In the gardens. Arrived toward the end of the day to my first camping experience. The place was appropriately deemed "the tent" and housed roughly two hundred backpackers in one large...you guessed it, tent. Had a few other options including pitching your own tent or sleeping in another smaller tent on a...

Prague has possibly been one of the most hypertouristed places I have seen so far. Oodles and oodles of fanny-pack toting people taking pictures of themselves by metro stations was not exactly what I wanted to see in Prague, but I guess that's the price you pay to see some of the major sights. Got to the hostel, set my pack down, and was immediately asked to a party with some Austrian guys in my room. Sadly, I had been on a blistering hot Czech train all afternoo...

Where to start. Arrived in Vienna with the sun sinking over the Bavarian fields. My hostel turned out to be well...not quite as pleasant as the sunset. Place was more institutional than hospitable, and had an enormous amount of high school kids on field trips. Blew through most of the main sights by myself the next day. Stephansdom cathedral was very impressive, and I paid to take a tour of the catacombs. One chamber had the remains of over six hundred plague vic...

Budapest is one place that, before leaving the states, I was very sure I would not bother with. Same goes for most of eastern Europe actually. Didn't hear much about it, and assumed it wasn't a popular destination for backpackers. Slowly, my perceptions of the eastern European countries have been developed and matured. They are not dirty, dangerous, and backpacker barren places at all. They are historically rich (very interesting recent history for Hungary), cult...

Arrived on brac via the midnight ferry to a big festival. Live music groups were scattered all around the main part of supetar, but I was getting pretty beat from all the traveling so I tried not to see all the fun and instead concentrate on finding my hostel. Even though a nice Irish lady called ahead to advise them, the hostel staff was nowhere to be found. Some drunk swedes politely gave me a grand tour and I curled up on the common room floor. O and before I ...