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Travelling Around Europe

Earlier this summer some friends and I backpacked around Europe. Had an unbelievable time, I guess it's one of those things that's always going to give you stories to tell. We used Inter-rail tickets and travelled in a loop all over the continent, trying to keep the everyday expenses down!
Prague and Amsterdam were my favourite places along with Paris (I had never been before), although that did involve a night camping on the street outside Gare de Nord after a cock-up with the train booking! Amsterdam, as you could imagine, is a world socially and culturally unique from the rest of Europe. Everyone was a little overwhelmed with the lack of censorship and openness of sex and sexuality. You really need to visit to fully understand it - needless to say, we made the most of it.
In Germany, we stayed with a friend from University and explored Hamburg and Bremen, not to mention a quaint German village. One of the benfits of having friends living abroad!
Other cities we covered on our quest were Vienna, with the best pizza restaurant in the world, well maybe... And Venice, which was another experience never to forget.
I had heard that Marseille was a dangerous city and this was confirmed, especially when you arrive gone midnight with nowhere to stay...

posted by qmchaz64 @ 7:59 pm