Brussels: Brussels was on my must-visit list. I never made it to Belgium in college and knew I had limited time left in Europe, so I checked the budget airlines and scored super cheap tickets. Before leaving for the country, I posted calls for beer buddies on Yelp plus my international beer drinkers Facebook group. No one …
Category: My Life
Solo in Europe: UK edition
[Warning: This is a long post. Feel free to skim.] It's no secret I dislike doing things on my own. While I enjoy some time hanging with myself, I also get bored and restless easily. Too easily. And sometimes that makes me reluctant to push myself outside of my tightly-knit comfort blanket. This can include an …
It was infatuation at first palace
I planned a short trip to Vienna last week for two key reasons: It was close. Only four hours by budget bus. Fifteen euros each way! Yelp was having a Halloween party. As it turned out, Vienna stunned and trapped me. I'm not sure I've ever visited a friendlier city. I'm not exaggerating when I say …
Munich vs. Berlin
Munich I visited Munich for the third time in mid-September with one of my new friends, Amy. We left right after class on Friday and arrived back in Prague around 1 a.m. on Monday thanks to a delayed FlixBus (the European-version of Megabus). My other two visits were *surprise* in 2010 while studying abroad. The first …
Happy fall!
Summer transformed into fall overnight this past weekend. I went from feeling like a disgusting excuse of an overheated human to an ice cube. It's safe to say I'll be incessantly cold until April. It's just how it is every year without fail. This week has had its share of highs and lows. I had …