Despite being the 3rd largest city in Austria Linz may well be one of the least interesting places I've been as far as being a tourist is concerned. It's one of those places where the locals are like "why the hell did you come here?" Which I got a bit because I met a lot of locals during my stay which ended up being a bit over a week. It was one hell of a week too. From sleeping in a train station and nearly being mugged to attending a birthday party where an arm...

Graz was my first stop after the capital city and my first experience couchsurfing in Austria. It was a nice little town most famous for it's old clock tower (not much of a tower to be honest, the building wasn't much higher than the clock itself, it was just on a hill). It was a nice clock though. Apparently Napoleon I think it was wanted to destroy it but the citizens of Graz at the time pooled their money together to pay him to leave it alone. It's also quite ...

This entry is essentially when I actually saw what Vienna has to offer. This is the second time writing this entry after giving it a shot last week and then my phone doing something stupid and losing it all. But it's been near a week since then and my laptop still hasn't arrived so I figure I might as well give this another shot. Because I didn't really like the other hostel I decided to move to another not far away. It was called the Hostel Ruthensteiner and it...

OK, so while I spend an extra week in Madrid waiting for my laptop I figured I might give writing this on my phone a shot. It really has been too long since I update and so much has happened. I continued on to Vienna with Mat and Jake, the two English guys I had met in Venice. As I think I left off in my last entry, we had caught a 10 hour overnight bus and got drunk off revolting cheap carton wine. It was still quite tough to get a decent sleep, but we got some...

Venice turned out to be a very interesting and awesome place to be. Some parts relaxing, some parts adventure and some parts partying. As has often been the case I originally booked just 2 nights here but stayed 4. When first arriving at the train station I was a little worried that I would struggle to find my hostel. Everyone kept saying how much of a maze Venice was and how you could so easily get lost or turned around and that maps are useless. Well I didn't ...