Day 39: Vienna – Vienna Squeezed Into One Day

Waking up wondering whether my stuff would make it back to me safe and sound, I decided there was no point worrying since there was nothing I could do but wait. I had previously booked a walking tour during the day and a cycling tour during the afternoon, so I was going to be too …

Day 38: Vienna – Rest Turned to Stress

Taking the train from Salzburg to Vienna, the capital of Austria, is about 3hrs. Vienna has two main stations: Wien Westbahnhof and Wien HBF, trains coming in from Salzburg and going to and from Budapest will stop at Westbahnhof while trains going to Prague will depart from HBF, check which station you need most before …

Day 37: Hallstatt – A Fairy Tale Village

Last night I had bought a return train ticket for Hallstatt, it was a whopping €5X, even more expensive than a return ticket from Vienna to Budapest, but it was TOTALLY WORTH IT! There are two ways from Salzburg to Hallstatt: Train>train>ferry or bus>bus. Ideally taking one way to and the other way back would've …

Day 36: Salzburg – Sound of Music

Waking up at 4am (and with a drunk "Jonathan" banging on my door at 3am yelling at me to let him in), I took an early train from Munich just past the Austrian border into Salzburg. The journey was about 3hrs so I arrived at around 9am to an empty Salzburg. A friendly local did …

Day 35: Neuschwanstein – Castle of Fairy Tales

I have only one day in Munich and I should probably spend it touring the city, but hey, I'm alone and I can do whatever I want. So I joined a tour to go to Schloss Neuschwanstein (Neuschwanstein Castle, ir New Swanstone Castle), it's a 3hr train ride from Munich one way and I joined …

Day 34: Munich – Train Anxiety and Enjoyment from Amsterdam to Munich

I'm afraid this isn't going to be a very interesting blog post since I spent the whole day on trains. From Amsterdam to Munich, a normal route would be Amsterdam>Frankfurt>Munich. But because that is too mainstream and I'm soooooo hipster, I took a train Amsterdam>Cologne>Frankfurt>Munich. And why would I do that apart from being so …

Day 33: Amsterdam – Letting the Windmills Turn My Troubles Away

From Bruges, I took the train stopping shortly at Antwerp and reached Amsterdam just before 11am, I had a tour starting at 12pm, so I hurried to leave my bag at my "hotel" to head for the tour. Antwerp station is a masterpiece of historical design. Well actually from this angle, all train stations in …

Day 32: Bruges – A Ride to Remember

Staying next to the Bruges train station, it's a short walk through Minnewaterpark to the center of Bruges. Green, green everywhere. Gentle river runs through the GREEN. I don't know any park greener than this one actually. Horse drawn carriages to take you back in time... if you don't mind the smell. The living quarters …

Day 31: Gent – A Sweet Hipster Belgian Town

Waving goodbye to London, I head East, to Belgium. I had booked the Eurostar taking a train to Brussels where I'll be spending the day in Gent before heading to Bruges in the evening (where I'm staying). I had arrived at the station 30mins prior tp my departure time, THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH. I knew …

Day 30: London – Windsor Castle, Bath, Lacock and Stonehenge

Still too lazy to find out how to get places myself, I have again booked a day tour, this time to west of London, and with a guide who sounds like Hugh Grant! (But unfortunately looks nothing like Hugh Grant) I personally think that Kingscross Station is a masterpiece of architecture, I feel amazed every …