Greetings! I’m Rob–a world traveler, music aficionado, beer advocate, technophile, foodie, adventurer, and overall connoisseur of global culture. I have created this free-flowing blog to outline my journeys, experiences, and ultimately new life discoveries. Most recently I plan to blog my backpacking trip across Europe and subsequent year in University of Oxford’s MBA programme!
Welp, I got a bit more sleep on this night train compared to the last. I booked a three-person cabin, but only one other guest showed–a British Asian man, yay someone that speaks English! Anyways, figuring out when to get off can often prove challenging, especially with delays. I set …
Day 42…wow time does fly when you’re having fun, eh? That means I’m just about 2/3 done with my ‘once in a lifetime eurotrip’. Sure, I may have the liberty to travel significantly down the road, but in all honestly, it’s doubtful if I’ll ever be able to take 2.5 …
Giving ourselves even more time, we scheduled touring to start at 3:45PM today (as these long nights of drinking have been adding up). This allowed for some “free time” in the morning to explore and fill in the gaps essentially. Back to the Jewish Quarter for some beers and foods …
Morning tour–not going to happen; however free lunch at 1:30PM tour, quite doable. After enjoying some surprisingly good gratis grub, one of my hostelmates and I headed to the bus stop. Oddly enough our other Brazilian hostelmate was there as well with his South American comrades (who also joined in …
Knock, knock… or shall I say POUND, POUND! These noises rattled my brain as the train rattled by body. An attendant informed us in an unsettling tone that we had about a half hour until our stop (in broken Pol-english of course). About 30 minutes later we had in fact …
Party hostels luckily allow for late check outs. I awoke ten past 11AM to get in gear by check out at noon. As I already toured almost all of the main attractions I had hoped to, I used some of my free time to catch up on emails, blogging, etc. …
Not to sound like a broken record, but after clubbing til just about 6AM, I awoke for another tour–this time, technically an excursion though. A group of about a dozen met at the Old Town Square and headed to the main train station for an hour long ride to Kutna …
The 10AM tour was just not happening after the Drunken Monkey crawl last eve. I needed a bit more than 3.5 hours of sleep to remotely function on any sort of tour. Luckily I had the option to settle for the 10:45AM tour. Although this would not really give me …
Awaking in Dresden, I needed to recharge both my literally batteries (phone, watch, camera, gopro, etc.) and my mental ones. Therefore, I relaxed in the lounge a bit before wandering around the city a bit more. Last evening, I explored the old part of the city (which is ironically mostly …
With limited time left in Berlin, I forced myself to get up early to try and cram in some last minute activities. 8AM came and went and so did I after eating my last breakfast at St. Christopher’s Berlin hostel. Within the hour, I ascended the iconic TV Tower and …