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August 2 My penultimate day on the continent dawned as I started the journey home, returning to Milan where I would stay overnight before getting the morning train to Paris and then back to the UK. For a single day I managed to get a lot in, taking in Milan Cathedral, the Da Vinci Museum…
July 31 I arrived in Naples feeling completely exhausted, but grateful to have made a last minute alternation to my journey which meant I spent the evening in a real bed (albeit in another hostel) by choosing to get the high speed train down rather than the sleeper, where I got to experience how beautiful…
Background: For the next few days I was mainly doing the tourist thing, although I did briefly stop by one place in Milan and had an all too brief experience of Ljubljana’s vibrant nightlife, otherwise I was mostly enjoying craft beer and some great Italian food. In fact other than MetalDays there is not much…
First port of call was Spelunke! Bar, just outside of the centre and involving another suburban train, which was subject to a very rare (for Switzerland) delay. Anyway even though it’s out a bit, it’s probably one of the highlights of the trip. Entrance to Spelunke! Bar, where I had a pretty good time. The…
July 20 I left Paris the following morning, for an equally short stay in Zürich where I will stay overnight before taking a rather special train over the Alps and into Italy. I took the TGV to Strasbourg, covering 300 miles (about 500 km) in a mere 2 hours, impressive when many train journeys of…
July 19 Whilst the heat in Paris was just as intense and stifling as it was in the UK, people there seemed far more accustomed to it and it people were just getting on with life as usual. I first went to explore a local park near where I was staying in the 19th arrondissement,…
June 30 It seemed that continental Europe didn’t want me to leave! Firstly a small panic when I waited for my train at Berlin Hauptbhanhof only to be told just before departure that the train was leaving from another platform entirely, thankfully the crowd suddenly moving as a giveaway, and I knew enough German to…
A previous arrangement to meet a friend in Brussels had fallen through, so I decided to break up my trip home and revisit Berlin for the first time in several years. So after an early start for the early morning train, I arrived in to Berlin Hauptbahnof at around 1pm, 52 minutes late since we…
June 28 I tried to make the most of the one full day I had in Warsaw, a city that isn’t known as a tourist destination in the way that Krakow is, but I soon wished I had more time to spend here – a running theme through this summer was that I felt I…
June 26 We returned to Vilnius for one final evening of food and drinks before my group caught flights to the UK the following day. Whilst I tried to remain excited by having a few days of overland adventures to come, festival comedown hit me hard, and I also wished I could spend a bit…