After my first trip to Europe on an organized tour, I decided that I would rather go on my own so that I could do what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it! I had a few ideas of where I would go... you know, everywhere!!! Well, I ended up inviting a friend, who ended up inviting her boyfriend, and we ended up deciding on a few amazing places.
After a slight flight mix up, our plane was going to run out of fuel or something, we got split up and I went to London alone for a few days. I actually had to fly from Atlanta to New York, where I landed right around midnight. The woman behind the desk did not want to help me because she was tired, or something, and she told me I could wait in the airport until 5 when the next person would be there. I met a nice Irish gent in the airport that was also stuck there overnight, so we made up ridiculous games, had short sprint races, and kept each other entertained for the duration of our night. It wasn't until 8am that they could get me into a hotel room and I finally got on a plane to London a few hours later. Needless to say, by the time I got to my hostel, all I wanted to do was nap. And I did.
The next couple days there were outstanding. Again, World Cup playoffs were happening so everyone was out watching the games, and it was great! I saw all of the sites- ate all of the food, and best of all I met some other amazing tourists and we had a great time!
We more or less went to Krakow to go to Auschwitz, and I'm not really sure if there is a way to describe that place. It's... unbelievable, in many respects. I have always enjoyed learning about WWII and I'm not so ignorant to think that such atrocities have not happened since... the question is, what do we do about it?
I will be honest, Prague was not on my list of things that I ever really wanted to do. I'm glad that I did, it was absolutely beautiful, it just wasn't on my list. We only spent a day there, and all of the moving around was getting pretty exhausting. It was beautiful... the architecture, the history of how and why the old city was built the way that it was. The contrast of the old town to the new one across the river was breathtaking; it was an old gothic realm juxtaposed with a new, light, clean world separated only by a narrow body of water.
In Berlin, I met up with my best friend who was studying abroad in Germany. We took a New Europe tour, and it was outstanding! I can't believe how much I learned... and I will definitely be needing to go back. Actually, I would like to spend some time in southern Germany!
Last, we flew into Ireland. We rented a car and spent a couple days around the Ring of Kerry, which provided the beautiful landscape images that pop into our minds when someone mentions "Ireland". We went to Dublin, which was a busy metropolitan (compared to Superior) with many tourists and citizens bustling around. I took another free walking tour and met some fellow backpackers, one from North Carolina and one from Las Vegas, who I actually met up with again later on when I moved to California and she showed me around Hollywood!
That was just a quick overview of that second trip. If you have any questions, don't ever hesitate to ask!
After a slight flight mix up, our plane was going to run out of fuel or something, we got split up and I went to London alone for a few days. I actually had to fly from Atlanta to New York, where I landed right around midnight. The woman behind the desk did not want to help me because she was tired, or something, and she told me I could wait in the airport until 5 when the next person would be there. I met a nice Irish gent in the airport that was also stuck there overnight, so we made up ridiculous games, had short sprint races, and kept each other entertained for the duration of our night. It wasn't until 8am that they could get me into a hotel room and I finally got on a plane to London a few hours later. Needless to say, by the time I got to my hostel, all I wanted to do was nap. And I did.
The next couple days there were outstanding. Again, World Cup playoffs were happening so everyone was out watching the games, and it was great! I saw all of the sites- ate all of the food, and best of all I met some other amazing tourists and we had a great time!
We more or less went to Krakow to go to Auschwitz, and I'm not really sure if there is a way to describe that place. It's... unbelievable, in many respects. I have always enjoyed learning about WWII and I'm not so ignorant to think that such atrocities have not happened since... the question is, what do we do about it?
I will be honest, Prague was not on my list of things that I ever really wanted to do. I'm glad that I did, it was absolutely beautiful, it just wasn't on my list. We only spent a day there, and all of the moving around was getting pretty exhausting. It was beautiful... the architecture, the history of how and why the old city was built the way that it was. The contrast of the old town to the new one across the river was breathtaking; it was an old gothic realm juxtaposed with a new, light, clean world separated only by a narrow body of water.
In Berlin, I met up with my best friend who was studying abroad in Germany. We took a New Europe tour, and it was outstanding! I can't believe how much I learned... and I will definitely be needing to go back. Actually, I would like to spend some time in southern Germany!
Last, we flew into Ireland. We rented a car and spent a couple days around the Ring of Kerry, which provided the beautiful landscape images that pop into our minds when someone mentions "Ireland". We went to Dublin, which was a busy metropolitan (compared to Superior) with many tourists and citizens bustling around. I took another free walking tour and met some fellow backpackers, one from North Carolina and one from Las Vegas, who I actually met up with again later on when I moved to California and she showed me around Hollywood!
That was just a quick overview of that second trip. If you have any questions, don't ever hesitate to ask!
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