The shady Basque hostel owners were shouting gibberish at 8am, waking everybody in the lobby who had opted to sleep on the couches the night before -…

The Irish boys awoke me at 10am, and I was feeling groggy as all hell.  I got some toast breakfast sweating the fact that I was supposed to be a…

The Amsterdam University was right next door, and their restaurant/dining hall was an amazing find for cheap eats in a sit-down type setting.  I…

I had a ticketless entry for my flight from Dublin to Amsterdam, but I managed to get to the wrong window two different times before I finally got to…

 I woke up late (no surprise there), finished the Dave Balducci book I've been fixed on (who knew the Supreme Court could be fun?), then headed …

Had our free breakfast of toast and jam and instant coffee, supplemented by my bagels, cream cheese lite, and yogurt.  Mmm, breakfast of champio…

NOTE: I've updated the last four days too, so be sure and check them out as well: Caught a really early bus from Killarney to Dublin, taking ca…

Woke up a little late, but had the ingenious idea to go on a walking "safari" around the city of Killarneyfor a couple of hours.  That idea quic…

Seeing as how Miranda (my Seattle friend that I befriended back in Edinburgh) got an all-day bus tour to the Cliffs of Moher and other places, I was …

Got the earliest bus to Galway, but little did I know it takes 7 1/2 hours.  I woulda paid extra (not much, though) for a faster train service, …

Yawn.  Uh oh.  What time was that tour again?  9:40am?  What time is it? 9:26?!  I flew downstairs with the speed of a Cel…

I had the brilliant idea to hire a bike and do a tour of my own, maybe even on one of those fancy cycle network paths.  I did just that.I went i…

I set aside the day for walking around Belfast.  It's oriented north-south, and it's easily walkable as all the things you could need or want to…

Woke up to bustling and packing.  God, so early already?  Looked over and saw it was 2am, some guy was back from the clubs.  False…

Said goodbye to the girls and boarded the bus to Glasgow.  Fully aware of the completely booked hostels both in Glasgow as well as Belfast…

Because of the booked-out weekend at the hostel, I had to check out at 10am.  Said bye to the two cool German guys on their ad-hoc hiking trip…

Woke up at 7am to find the cleaning lady dusting off the couches in the Chillout Room.  Wait, why wasn't I in bed?  Groggily made my way …

Pretty much wasted the early AM sitting around and waiting for the bus to whisk me away to Edinburgh.  Note to self: get earlier busses. …

22%?!  Who the F makes a fifth of vodka and waters it down to 22%?! I tried to budget a little more creatively by buying a fifth of vodka and…

Newcastle has a lot of hot girls.  Like, everywhere.  The town in beautiful.  Woke up to find my only room-mate gone, but there was a …

Woke up to valley girl telling me he silenced my alarm.  Bitch.Best hostel breakfast yet.  (Any time there's sausage, I'm happy).Early mo…

I have exactly 4 minutes to do this.  here goes: (free expensive breakfast.  always nice) fourth hostel in four days.  not so nice…

Woke up at 3pm in Alex's hotel room floor. Didn't I pay over $45 to stay at that shitty hostel in Holland Park last night? Got my bag and checked i…

Woke up with a hangover. No, not a hangover, because we didn't have that much to drink. It's still the jet-lag coupled with dehydration. (Nope, I …

London is gritty.  Grimy.  Cloudy.  Rainy.  But it's a wonderful city to go visit, and possibly live if it weren't for the outrag…

Well, I'm all packed and ready to go, we'll see you on the other side.  I had my qualms about only taking carry-on luggage for my 3.5-month adve…

It's the first day of Finals week here at Boise State University, and come Saturday I'll have a very expensive piece of paper in my hand with m…