An extra big adventure: Budapest

Budapest is, as Lauren almost managed to say, the Budabest – we finished on an absolute high!

An extra big adventure: Zagreb

We’ve been in Zagreb since Wednesday, and it has been hot. 

An extra big adventure: Ljubljana

We’re leaving Ljubljana later today for Zagreb. It’s been an absolute delight.

An extra big adventure: Vienna

Vienna is gorgeous. As Lauren said, they really know how to build stuff. Everything is very big and very impressive.

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An extra big adventure: Prague

We went from Berlin to Prague, where we stayed until this morning.

An extra big adventure: Berlin

We’ve been in Berlin since Saturday and we have been incredibly busy! We’ve walked miles (very tired feet) and seen a huge amount.

An extra big adventure: it’s time to go!

Today’s the day! After seven months of planning (and the five years that we’ve been thinking about it), it’s finally time for me and Lauren to go interrailing! We have a very detailed shared OneNote document, and a very detailed shared GoogleDrive Map, we have insurance, we have backpacks, I have a bumbag, and a selfie stick, we are ready!

An extra big adventure: choosing hostels, and a backpack

It’s all becoming very real.

The Man In Seat 61 – Mark Smith

This isn’t a cover-to-cover sort of read, but a very useful reference book.

An extra big adventure: the beginning, and the first hurdle

Back in December, Lauren text me something along the lines of “there’s an Interrail sale, let’s go this summer”.

We had planned to go four years ago, the summer I finished university, but nobody managed to save up enough or really commit to it, so when I was offered three months in Italy – working as an au pair for a family who lived in Finale Ligure – I took the chance and went. To my employers’ horror, I spent my days off on trains up and down the coast – and, once, went all the way to Milan – but it’s not quite the same.