June 22 A long day on the rails and road today, as I set off to Vilnius to meet with my metal family before heading to Kilkim Žaibu for three days of metal, folk and Baltic culture. The past two times I had been have marked among the highlights of my year, and in turn…
Category: Travel
Krakow
June 19 I arrived into Krakow at 6:30am, and this time round I didn’t sleep too well, possibly because I was getting off before the final stop and I didn’t want to oversleep. My first hour was spent trying to get the 8 zloty in coinage needed for the left luggage lockers, since I had…
Onwards to Prague
June 17 I boarded my train to Munich, sharing a couchette compartment with three friendly Dutchmen, from who I learned that Dutch sounds like a drunk Englishman attempting German – which I can well believe. Although in a jovial mood they weren’t too late getting to bed, although the attendant did inform me that he…
The beginning…
I have wanted to travel across Europe, working my way from city to city since I graduated from uni. After the pandemic had shurnk everyone’s world for the past two years, I decided to make the most of the ending of restrictions and go and do that trip, taking in two European metal festivals: Kilkim Žaibu in…