The Lowdown by Jara Gatti.
June 10th, 2004
Pensions, like hostals and residencias, are a great value in Spain. Run by families, the ones we stayed in were all extremely clean and cheap, and you get your own key to the building...
June 10th, 2004
So throughout my 8-weeks of backpacking, I relied pretty heavily on Lonely Planet.....
November 21st, 2003
During a recent visit to Berlin I had a good experience at the A & O Backpackers hostel...
April 25th, 2004
I discovered the world?s best hostel totally by accident...
November 14th, 2003
Gottingen, Culture, Food and Drink
When you're in Germany, you might get tired of endless foot-long Wurst sausages in tiny Br?tchen buns or piles of Kartoffeln (potatoes) with Schwein- (pork) or Rindfleisch (beef) and Kohl (cabbage)...
November 4th, 2003
Gottingen, Culture, Living Abroad
If you come to Germany right now, you?ll find lovely clear blue skies, endless fields of green, and densely packed forests of vivid red and orange and gold-topped trees that stretch on for mile upon p..
October 28th, 2003
One of my favorite things about Germany so far is their public transportation system. (I live in LA where everyone has at least one car and they're not afraid to use it...
October 15th, 2003
Gottingen, Culture, Living Abroad
I have done a bit of traveling inside and out of the country, weighted down by guidebooks like a pack horse, and I'll tell you, no amount of guide book reading can really prepare you for spending exte..
June 10th, 2004
We learned rather quickly that in Spain and Portugal, it's almost unnecessary to stay in dorm-style hostels (unless you like sharing your room with 6 other smelly, snoring strangers who stumble in dru..
June 10th, 2004
Munich, Entertainment, Food and Drink
I was pleasantly surprised by the meal I had at the world-famous Hofbrauhaus in Munich...
June 7th, 2004
It's true, hostel beds in Munich are hard to come by, and probably the most expensive in Germany. When we were there, the cheapest place we could find was the Kolpinghaus St...
June 10th, 2004
If you're leaving from Nadrazi Holesovice train station and want to get some decently-priced and yet delicious food in a nice setting before you go, I recommend the Restaurant Mona Lisa...
June 19th, 2004
If you're traveling through Verona, a historical city that especially appeals to the romantics out there, there's a great, cheap hostel (or ostello, an important Italian vocabulary word) tucked up abo..
April 22nd, 2004
THINGS I WISH I KNEW ABOUT POLAND BEFORE I WENT:
That ticket people will not indicate to you verbally or in writing if you need to switch trains somewhere unless you ask them repeatedly to do so...
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