Eurotrip – London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Athens

I have a ton of pictures but everywhere has slow internet here which would take forever to upload.  Words are boring I know, pictures do a much better job.  I’ll add them in later when I get faster internet.

UPDATE: Finally got my pictures uploaded, check here for my Europe pictures

London - great city, pretty expensive but a really good time.  Stay at the Generator hostel, great bar in the hostel, safe and great staff. Go on the free walking tour by New London/Europe, they take you to all of the main attractions.  From there you can figure out which ones you want to go back to and explore.  Went to the Tower of London as well, really amazing and huuuuuge.  Also saw St. Paul’s Cathedral which is very impressive.  Went to the British Museum, had a lot of really cool exhibits, also an amazing building.  All of the museums in London are free so head to those if you are into museums.  Also, go to Russell square it’s a really cool park in Camden, people hang out there all day and you are free to do whatever in the parks.

Amsterdam - Went to Van Gogh’s Museum and saw Starry Night and a pub crawl through the red light district.  Really sad to see women caged up like that hehe.  There are two main pub crawls for the city, I went on the ultimate party one and not the new Amsterdam one.  Definitely recommend a pub crawl because of how sketchy the red light district can be at night.  Try to stay at the Flying Pig hostel if you go, it was all booked when I looked but it’supposed to be the best in Amsterdam. Also, I hear good things about Dampkring it’s the place that was in one of the Oceans 11/12/13 movies, there’s a picture of Brad Pitt up on the wall from his visit.

Berlin - Wasn’t a huge fan of Berlin all of the main tourist attractions were pretty cool though.  I stood above where Hitler’s bunker was which is pretty crazy to think about.  Went to an amazing club there called the Matrix, highly recommend checking it out.  If you go on the New Berlin pub crawl they take you there as the last stop.  Stayed at the generator, great younger hostel, not the best location though.  Berlin’s public transportation system is really good though.

Prague - Prague was awesome, really liked it here even though I was starting to get sick at the time so took it pretty easy.  Went to the old square which is really cool and great places to eat around there too.  Did a pub crawl here as well, got yelled at by a group of asians because I wasn’t drunk enough for their standards.  Probably had the best Chinese food ever there which I know is not local food but it was amazing and fresh.

Budapest - Stayed at this really cool hostel called the Budapest Bubble which is basically in this girl’s house which makes it feel like home instead of a crappy hostel.  Went to a festival in the park here, can’t remember the name.  The girl that ran the hostel took us out one night and we went to a really cool bar, really big and really relaxed atmosphere.  I love the bars here because they don’t blast music which means you can actually have a conversation with who you went to the bar with.  Forgot my camera this night so no pictures sorry.

Athens – You have to go sit on the rock at Acropolis at night, it’s amazing! you can see the whole city and you have Acropolis in the background.  Do not stay at a hostel here, book a hotel.  Athens doesn’t have any good hostels. Go to Syntagma square and take the tram to the beach.  I’ve heard the day trips to one of the islands is worth it too.  I’m going to be on Santorini for a week though so we didn’t opt for that.

Next stop – Santorini Island at Artemis Village!

I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of attractions here and there, we’ve covered a lot of ground so far and I’m tired from laying on the beach all day.  Traveling is a tough job I know

Send suggestions on where we should go next in the comments!