Articles Posted in the Europe Category
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Top 5 Things to Do for Free in Seville
Guest Author: Will Peach Will Peach is one of the site editors over at Gap Daemon, the gap year travel community website for backpackers and gap year travellers. Don’t make the mistake of missing out on Seville during one of your Spain holidays. For budget travellers, Andalucia’s capital has plenty more to offer than scorching summers [...]
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Backpacking Iceland with a Rental Car
19 – 21 August 2010 I’d met an American lad in the place I had slept the previous night so I offered him a lift to the Blue Lagoon, naturally I wanted to show off my recently picked up blue station wagon rental car and share this new exciting freedom with someone else. I was [...]
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Flight to Iceland with London Stopover
18 August 2010 As I noted in my previous post catching the plane from Prague was a breeze, I made a smooth terminal change at Heathrow before catching my plane to Iceland. My first sighting of Iceland from the air was not what I had expected. I’d pictured mountains, ferocious volcanoes and dragons but from [...]
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Prague (Czech Republic) by Backpack
16 – 17 August 2010 My overnight train from Krakow had gone well, overall it had been a comfortable journey and I’d slept well (With the aid of an eye mask and ear plugs). I arrived in Prague and made the easy walk from the main train station to the central area where I found [...]
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Concentration Camp
14 August 2010 The Auschwitz-Birkenau system of Nazi concentration camps was the largest of all the Nazi camps and was designated by Heinrich Himmler to be the “final solution of the Jewish question in Europe” – it was an extermination camp. Unbelievable atrocities were committed here. This post is going to be brief; if I [...]
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Krakow (Poland) by Backpack
13 – 15 August 2010 If I thought it was difficult finding my hostel when I arrived in Warsaw, that was nothing compared to the difficulty I had in finding the train platform to leave Warsaw. To this day I don’t know what went wrong, but I spent a crazy amount of time walking around [...]
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Warsaw (Poland) History by Backpack
11 – 12 August 2010 Having missed my intended train from Berlin I arrived in Warsaw late, it was after 11pm by the time I’d navigated my way out of the central station and to the tram stop. Laden up with all my important possessions in my backpack I found myself on a tram with [...]
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
10 August 2010 Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a major concentration camp used by the Nazi regime from 1936 through to Soviet liberation in 1945, the Soviets then used it as a NKVD Special Camp until 1950. In 1956 the East German (DDR) government set up a national memorial on the site giving emphasis to political resistance (Against [...]
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Berlin (Germany) by Backpack
04 – 11 August 2010 On the train trip to Berlin I met Anna who was traveling back home from where she studies in Bonn. Anna kindly gave me some advice on sights and attractions from a local perspective and even said that if she was free on Friday she’d show me some of the [...]
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Cologne (Germany)
03 August 2010 Cologne, but I almost didn’t make it. I hazily recall Jeff waking me up at some point; he was up and about and said my alarm was going off. The next time I woke up was when Jeff was putting his bag on and heading out the door, I tried not to [...]
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