A Taste of Italy & Spain

I know I haven’t written in a while and I find myself on a plane returning home before I was able to write Venice, Florence, Rome, or Barcelona. So I’m going to do something a little different and write a quick blurb on each place instead of the lengthy ones I’ve done before. Venice Venice…

My Deutschland Experience

Cologne I have fallen behind on blogs and trying to remember Cologne after Venice is difficult but here goes. We arrived in Cologne to be greeted by an amazing hostel. It is called Die Wohngemeinshaft. It is has a bar downstairs and the hostel upstairs. The rooms and beds truly made this place special. We…

Bruges and Amsterdam

Bruges We decided to take a day trip to Bruges before we traveled to Amsterdam. It was a recommendation by many people we met in Brussels. We arrived to find a very small city but a beautiful one. It is a canal city much like Amsterdam. It has swinging willow trees, quaint little shops, bistro…

My Love of Belgian Beer

Brussels Getting to Brussels was a chore as we didn’t book our train in advance. Note to anyone who bought a railpass, book high speed trains in advance!! We ended up having to wait in line for 2 hours and had to take a connecting train to Lille with a 5 hour layover. My motto…

Osprey Porter 46 Backpack Review

Poor 1 – 5 Amazing Durability 5 This backpack was exceedingly sturdy. I tossed, kicked, slept on, filled to the brim, and dragged this bag through hell. Thirty six full days of travel and it never quit on me. The zippers are still going strong and straps have never tore or felt weak or flimsy.   Functionality 3.5…

Backpack Backpack

Much like my spanish adventure loving soul sister, Dora the Explorer, I’ll need a good backpack to hold all the things I need to make this trek. This is an essential for any backpacker (hence the title) so I knew I needed to do my research. First, I needed to figure out what I needed…

Backpacker Noob

ITS OFFICIAL!! I’m going to backpack Europe for a month! Beginning May 27th, my friend Katie and I will be heading to Dublin to being our journey. In Ireland we plan on hitting the Cliffs of Moher like any good tourist ;), hit the pubs, and just explore. From there we are going to venture…