Now that I have access to everything from my old computer, I was able to upload some travel photos on to flickr last night. Want to see?


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Manning and I arrived in Vienna on the 3rd of October, around 8:30am. We had spent the night on a train in a 6-person couchette. Here's a tip about overnight train travel in Europe: if you reserve a spot in a 6-person couchette, you won't be able to sit up (there's no head space). You have to lay down. That's weird. I mean, it's better than ( Read more... )

Manning and I arrived at the Bucharest train in the early evening on October 25, remarkably well-rested after our 19-hour train ride from Istanbul. Arriving in a new country at a new train station is always a little bit stressful - I'm partly looking for an ATM machine to get the local currency as soon as possible, part checking my phone to see if ( Read more... )

This place is everything I was hoping/expecting and a zillion times more. There are some tourists here in Brasov, but not much. Everything is in Romanian, the beautiful language that sounds like Italian and French and Spanish all mixed up together. The beauty here is so overwhelming. I never allowed myself to think it could really be this ( Read more... )