We are staying with a really nice Servas host family in Rome, in the very leafy and cool area of Trastevere. We arrived in the morning, met Sergio and had a nice chat with him about ourselves and he was very interesting and helpful with things to do and see in Rome. He works for the national television network RAI, something to do with the news. It was so very very hot in the day. Collosseo/Collosseum, 12 euros later I couldn't give a flying fark that I had spen...

Roma.When in Rome…It has to be uttered at least 12 times a day. This is a city so grande, so epic, so very very rich. Ariane and I have dove (dived?) in head first and are loving it to pieces.We arrived last night after a rather fun 2 days and 2 nights on ferrys and trains, Limnos— Athens—Patras—Bari—Roma, during which we said an almost teary goodbye to Liv and Pop which was remedied by the realisation that we are meeting up with them multiple times in ...

Limnos Limnos Limnos! What a wonderful island. After an excited moment of "eeeeek!" upon finally meeting up with Ariane, Liv, Pop and Ariane's friend Stephanie, we headed to Pireaus to catch the ferry to Limnos, which is the island in the north Aegean where Ariane's dad Tom is from. Besides a creepy midget begger who spat and slapped her way through our card game, begging for whatever she could get her filthy little hands on, we got on the ferry unscath...

The company of the Germans made the train rides bearable, and it was a relief to talk to some fellow travellers. They too were heading to Athens, and the train ride from Thess to Athina was especially scenic, winding through these rolling hills and misshapen shrubbery, the sunrise making it all the more beautiful. An overwhelmingly kind greek woman for some strange reason decided to take us under her wing for the entire train ride, we had accidentally sat in her ...

Malmo: This was just a little day trip I decided to do in the moment, I almost wish I had gone further to Gothenburg, but oh well, I can now say I have been in Sweden! Malmo is a pretty little place, full of light and little town squares and nice parks and walkable avenues. Nothing too special about it, in that I could have easily just spent another day in Copenhagen and seen the same things. The Oresund bridge from Copenhagen was pretty impressive in itself, ju...