Strasbourg is different from the rest of France. It looks the way I expected Bavaria and Munich to look, and that’s not just because I was horribly ignorant before visiting…
Not literally of course, the elephants weren’t alive, and the hunting was for photos only. I had noticed the first of these painted elephant statues around the city the moment…
When I asked other travellers, the reviews I got of Luxembourg ranged from “you have to go” to “don’t go, there’s nothing to do”. I decided to go and see…
I spent two night’s in Rennes, a city I hadn’t even realized existed little more than a week ago. I knew there was that part of France there geographically speaking,…
I managed to get out to Mont Saint Michel for an afternoon with another guy from my hostel. We took the more than hour long bus ride out to the…
I took the train from Bordeaux out to Arcachon and it seemed like everyone else in the region had the same plan. The train was hot and stuffy, and we…
I booked two nights in Bordeaux, but my plan was always to get out to the Atlantic coast of France so I didn’t really leave much time to see Bordeaux…
I decided to venture back into France following my few nights in Barcelona. A couple years ago I met an exchange student from Toulouse who happened to be living nearby…
I didn’t originally think I’d have time to make it to Spain, but I’ve been making good time and Barcelona is reasonably accessible from Marseille by bus. So I bought…
Marseille is the first Mediterranean destination on my backpacking trip, and after the heat knocked me out in Annecy, I was worried that I’d be useless the whole time I…