What a mission the train journey was from Paris to Brussels. The direct fast trains take just over an hour but the reservation costs are through the roof (30€pp) so of course we had to find a way around that. DB Bahnn suggested the best journey to be a change of 4 trains, which were…
The city of love….. I have to admit that we really did fall in love with the city when we found out our 2-star hotel was a 5-minute walk from the station we were to arrive into after 8.5hours of travel that day! Our hotel – Le Terrage was your standard budget hotel: equipped with…
Our 2-night stopover en-route to Paris didn’t really end up breaking up the journey that much, as we found out all the reserved seats on the TGV had been booked up for Eurail pass holders. So in the end we still had an 8.5-hour journey to make it to Paris from Interlaken once we got…
There is something romantic about a city built on 120 islands, 150 canals and 400 bridges (approximate numbers). It’s like stepping back in time to where there are no cars but only foot traffic and of course boat traffic. You have the gondola men in their horizontal stripped navy blue shirts and stubby straw top-hats…
It feels like a treat the days when we only have a couple of hours to travel to our next destination. I like train travel but once you have done a few days of 6+ hours traveling over a 2-month period it starts to wear you out a bit. The train journey from Florence to…
Apparently it is this Tuscan city that turns your average person into an art gallery loving freak… Yes I could see how that could happen but in our case it did not. The simple reason is we would much rather buy a couple of nice bottles of Chianti than pay 11€ each to see David’s…
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…