Umbria; the province of hilltop towns and rolling green vineyards. It truly is a hard life backpacking around this part of the world. I mean how do we decide which vineyard or hilltop town to go to?? We finally settled on the boss of Umbria, otherly known as Perugia. The train ride from Roma was…
We managed to find a train that would take us straight from Salerno to Rome, which was fantastic (that is after we made it through the horrendous bus ride from Amalfi to Salerno!). We decided to make a seat reservation and thank-fully we did as the train was packed – a seat makes the 3-hour…
After being mucked around in the hostel in Napoli we were overly excited about the next step in our trip, even if it was only excitement to have our own room and bathroom! I don’t think I was quite so prepared for what the Amalfi Coast had in store for us… It still feels a…
If it wasn’t for advice on twitter or my love for pizza I probably wouldn’t of visited Napoli. Actually I think at one point I told Morgan that Napoli was off the itinerary after reading about mafia, thieves, violence and dirt and grim in the Lonely Planet! Actually no guidebook seemed to mention anything nice…
I have to admit I was incredibly excited to embark on the Italian capital – I mean, all that good food and marvelous wine – who wouldn’t??? We had only booked 2 nights in Rome due to most of the affordable hostels being full booked, so we figured if there was more to see we…
To be honest we were pretty much stopping in Bulgaria to break up the journey to Greece. To get to the Bulgarian capital it was a total of 13-hours travel; Brasov-Bucharest & then Bucharest-Sofia. The first part of the journey was rather forgettable as it was early in the morning, the seats were comfy and…
It is the home of Dracula. How could we not be excited about that. If you know me, you know that I’m a dedicated Buffy, Angel, Twilight & True Blood fan. So of course I was looking forward to getting to Romania aka. the birthplace of vampires supposedly. However we were both a little apprehensive…
Three countries in one day is what it took to get to Budapest – we traveled up through Slovenia to Vienna in Austria and then over to Budapest in Hungary. The 2nd leg of the journey was on one of the Austrian Rail’s OBB Railjet trains, which was very nice. It was basically like being…
Leaving Zagreb was not a pleasant experience. Not because I was sad to leave but having to run off with my pack on the way to the train station to vomit in the botanic gardens is not one of my lifetime highlights. I had been up most of the night beforehand making good use of…