The first stop in our backpacking adventuring was Munich, just a smelly overnight train away from Florence. Munich is the heart of Bavaria, the conservative, traditional, sterotypical center of the German lifestyle. In other words, this is where the schnitzel and lederhosen come from. It’s a city filled with history, energy, and of course beer.… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
After my parents left, I gave Michael the tour of Florence. A trip to Tuscany wouldn’t complete without a trip to a Tuscan village of course, so the next day we made our way to Cortona. Cortona is actually the village that inspired the chick flick Under the Tuscan Sun. Now to be honest, I have… [Read more…]
July 26, 2011
My last two weeks in Italy were fairly uneventful in the best way possible. While there was plenty of time for thought, reflection, and that other cheesy crap (which will be the last post from Europe adventures) I mostly spent my time with friends and enjoying the city. Studying in the gardens, making our last… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
My journey to Mama Africa was already quite sometime ago but I would be doing my blog a disservice if I didn’t document my trip. Since about a year ago, I put Morocco on my list of “must-sees” for my semester in Europe. I thought I would finally make it to the motherland in late… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
With Spring well on its way, it was hard to go a day without some kind of event occurring in the city. Two of my favorite memories by far were attending a Fiorentina soccer game along with the Italian MTV Awards a couple days later. The day of the soccer game, Megan and I bought… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
The weekend after our Chianti adventure, a couple of friends and I made our way to Cinque Terre for Easter Weekend. Cinque Terre is a series of five small fishing villages off the coast of Italy. With breathtaking views out of a postcard and breathing hikes out of a labor camp, it was a great… [Read more…]
May 19, 2011
At last! A weekend in Florence. I was worried that after traveling for so many weekends in a row that I’d grow pretty restless the one weekend I had in Florence. Luckily, it was the weekend that hordes of friends from home, Chapman, and California came to visit. I’m pretty sure I lost count of… [Read more…]
May 16, 2011
In our infinite wisdom, my friends and I decided that booking a trip to Barcelona the weekend after spring break would be a good idea. Infamous for its nightlife, most of the club goers in the city don’t even begin their nights until around 1AM. Needless to say, there was going to be little sleep… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
So for my 10 day getaway, my roommate Jack I decided to head eastwards for Greece! We thought a vaguely exotic (but not that exotic because it’s still Western Europe) destination would be a nice change of pace for our break. After the hell that was midterms and celebrating Italy’s 150th Anniversary, we packed up… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
There’s no way around justifying the fact that it took me this long to post about Turkey. But between traveling every weekend and staying afloat in school (hard life, I know) I had yet to give my visit to Istanbul a blog post worthy of its epicness. I may have gone close to a month… [Read more…]
July 27, 2011
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