We arrived at Centraal Station around 6am. We had to sit in the station for about an hour until the trams started running. We got some food in the meantime and people watched while sitting on our luggage. I noticed some people were wearing fireman uniforms as some sort of fashion statement. I loved Amsterdam already. It took us so long to find our hostel and in the search a man rode past us on his bike wearing only a thong. Awesome! There weren't many people arou...

We didn't wake up until 4:00 pm. Our friend, Sylvia, was back from Switzerland by then. I felt guilty about sleeping-in at first but the previous night was well worth it. I knew I'd be rested for the upcoming days and I was going to need to be. Sylvia made us some food and we took a metro to a bus station where we were meeting for an overnight bus to Amsterdam. We got there a little early so we wandered around looking for somewhere to get food. We went up to the ...

Julia and I were left alone for this whole day. Our friend is fluent in French, as well as English, so she was an asset for getting around Paris. We thought we'd be fine for the one day she wasn't with us. Wrong. We started our day with eggs, bacon, and mamosas. Then, the two of us headed up to the terrace to check out the view. It was AMAZING. You could see all of Paris, from Sacre Coeur to the Eiffel tower, and everything in between. I've never seen a better v...

It was my first time stepping foot into another country. My friend (Julia) and I almost missed our plane on the way there. We hadn't planned much of anything except for buying our tickets there and back. The rest of our destinations were just ideas of places we had dreamt of visiting, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, the list goes on. All we had were round trip tickets, stomaches full of IPA, and a number to call when we got there. We had no idea what the next 14 days...