So this is it... the trip finally has come to an end. It seems like the 2 months has gone by fast-yet slow at the same time. Now, as we spend our last 6 days in Paris, when we look back at the beginning of the trip which started in Portugal it feels like 6months has gone by with everything thats happened since then. Our stay in the city of love started off with us arriving the evening of Wednesday Nov.20 at the Gare de Lyon station (we took a highspeed ...

We decided that we couldnt miss out on seeing Switzerland during this trip since we worked with so many people from here during our time in Canada. Plus, I had to have one of my favorite foods- fondue- from its homeland. When we first looked into it and realized how expensive it is (because of their strong economy) we figured 2 nights would be enough. We chose Zurich because it was easy&cheap to get to from Munich (about 4hrs on another discount bus company) ...

The Germany part of our trip began in Cologne and ended in Munich; and we spent some time in the lovely town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in between. (We also had an overnight stop in Frankfurt) We got around mostly by bus which we found to be a very cheap option of transport through the companies Eurolines, City2City, and Meinfrienbus. We did also take two trains through the "DBahn" which we got special prices on as well. So, starting in Cologne, which is ...

From Edinburgh we flew to Amsterdam to spend 2 days at the Sphinx "hotel"- another doozy but only because it poorly run. (I can write a book just on our experiences at all the hostels/hotels during this trip) But, we still had a private room and bath so we were fine. We arrived at 10am and couldn't check in until 2pm so we decided to explore the city and walk around the beautiful streets between the canals. If you've never been to Amsterdam before then you probab...

Since my mom and aunt were going to be in Edinburgh for a week while we're in Europe we decided to take the opportunity to meet up with them. We flew EasyJet (a decent discount airline) from Prague on Sunday morning Oct.26 and within 2 hrs we were there. The change in weather was the first thing we noticed...it seemed the temperature had dropped 10degrees and it was windy and damp (compared to the dry moderate temperatures we had for the first half of the t...