i was supposed to fly out of shannon on the 11th - i happened to check the news around 3am and saw all about the new terror threat on tra...

finally took the flight home from dublin instead of shannon - cost me $100 to change the flight.. which was better news than i had anticipated....

anna and i headed to galway for four days to get away from the hustle and bustle of dublin. we wanted to go the aran islands, as well as the cl...

the street performance world championship took place on the 5th and 6th of august in dublin. while a lot of the acts were good, none of them comp...

once i got into dublin i made my way to the four courts hostel - it wasnt too hard to find, but it was a bit more of a walk than i expected from ...

i took a day trip to suomelinna - a fortress built over five islands 15minutes away from helsinki built by the swedes to defend against the ru...

i arrived in tampere in the early evening - i was planning on sleeping in the airport. unfortunately, as i soon found out, the airport consists o...

i got to helsinki about midday, and i was having a hell of a time finding a room. for a while it looked like i might be sleeping in the airport/tra...

there really isnt too much for me to say about turku. instead of taking the ferry from stockholm to helsinki - which would have been 14 hours or so...

once i got into stockholm i headed to what seemed to be the best hostel in the city by all the reviews online - city backpackers. with the ex...

after roskilde i headed up to helsingor on the northeast coast of denmark. kronborg castle is located here, which is more famously known for the ca...

i took a day trip to roskilde, which is just west of copenhagen to visit the viking museum. roskilde used to be a very important port in denmark...

well i certainly have been slacking a bit. once again im somewhere that i cannot use my usb stick to upload pictures from, so those will have to ...

i headed over to the east side gallery, the largest portion of the berlin wall still intact - its been taken over by graffiti artists and is covere...

love parade was utterly amazing. it started at 2pm, and ended at 11pm. which, seemed rather early to me, but theres a whole slew of afterparties to...

due to my lack of planning - actually its really not my fault this time. i tried to book a spot on the night train from zurich to berlin w...

after discussing cinque terre further with a few people at the hostel in rome, i decided to just skip the train i had just booked to munich and s...

i got into rome about 9am and headed back to the yellow hostel to wait around and try and snag a bed - lucked out there and was put into a 6 pers...

it was off to interlaken after brussels. the trip took quite a while, needing three trains, the first of which was at 5am. i dont recall what tim...

antwerp has been really surprising to me, i like it much more than bruges. its not nearly as touristy and the architecture is far superior. iv...

well, i had heard so much about bruges that i think i might have had too high of expectations. it didnt suit me very well at all, i only ended up s...

since our flight to london got cancelled we spent an extra night in amsterdam. cheryl and ben rescheduled their flight to london for the next day -...

got into amsterdam late at night and checked into our ghetto hotel. you know the type, you turn down the crappy dark alley, see a hotel sign with o...

i never got a chance to fill this in, though im now in brussels this is the first internet cafe in a bit that i have been able to use my camera at ...

vienna is pretty nice, but, our hostel mostly sucks. when i came downstairs to ask the reception if they had the games on, the guy reached for a bo...

today we went to a small town about an hour east of prague with a girl we met at the hostel from san diego - chelsea. she had told us about a ...

we waited too long to book vienna and were unable to find a place, so instead we headed off to prague. we got in about midnight, and the metro had ...

salzburg was a pretty nice place. unfortunately we ended up staying a bit too far out of town for my liking. i basically prefer to grab a map, and ...

we took a night train to munich, so even though we only spent one night there, we got in most of two days. we messed up our scheduling so we had a ...

we are taking a train shortly to venice, but not staying the night there. we will be heading onto munich on a night train where we will stay for on...

we were in pompei so long that we missed the train from rome to florence, and had to spend another night in rome. we ended up in a hotel, for a bit...

we went to pisa yesterday for a nice day trip. it was great, though i didnt find the tower nor the surrounding buildings to be all that impressive....

headed to pompei, but we did miss our initial train due to the fiasco that is known as the ticket office. josh came along as well and helped guide ...

quite a bit has happened since i was last able to update. cheryl, ben, and i walked around for about 6 hours in no particular direction - eventual...

our entire room overslept this morning, i guess we all needed the rest, some from travel, some from other reasons. cheryl, ben, and myself are ...

got in late last night from london. our flight got delayed, cost us about an hour, but instead of flying into the smaller airport here in rom...