Entry 15 Thurs 12th MayI was up early and ready to see the falls. I used the hostels pancake grill type thing to make my breakfast. The hosts supplied the mix and you just pour it on the cooker and wait a minute and you're done. It's not the type of pancakes us Brits eat on Pancake Day etc. though; it's that thicker, dry bread type pancake. Oh well. A bit of unhealthy syrup made it better. Great breakfast. I'm yet to find a hostel that provides a decent healthy b...

Take a train from Washington D.C to Baltimore for a quick one hour flight to Buffalo, followed by a bus trip to Niagara Falls. This was the fairly simple plan relying on a whole multitude of America's public transportation for Wednesday.I missed breakfast on my last day in the D.C hostel in exchange for some extra sleep and had the already tiresome job of packing my backpack which seems to get more difficult every time I have to do it. Laura did most of the packi...

Okay so usually I like to go asleep by watching one of my favourite TV shows; something like The Office or The Peep Show or Alan Partridge, and more recently listening to the Ricky Gervais Show Podcasts - so I end up falling asleep next to my netbook and I'll wake up during the middle of the night and close it without really knowing and everything is fine. Sleeping on the top bunks in dorms is a little risky for this, especially in the D.C bunks because the...

I made it to breakfast! Yeeaah. It was a self-catering affair - I made a toasted bagel with cream cheese. It wasn't great but it was free calories so it was sufficient. In my head I had a loose plan to visit the Natural History Museum today, I've been to the one in London and I just love those museums; being a lover of all things science, the place just rocks and I can spend hours upon hours in them. As with travelling and maybe more specifically, as with ...

Yeah so I missed breakfast again. I was up until 2am the night before so when my alarm went off at 9am I was certainly not in the mood to get up. I eventually got up around 11 again I think and went down to the common room to check Facebook & emails. I Skyped a whole bunch of people; my Dad, little sister Laura, little brother Aidan and step Mum Elaine all came on to talk on the first call. Next I spoke to the girlfriend, my Mum, my sister Elke and step...