Posted on:
2009 06 01

Italy train travel Q&A

When I was writing that post about Italy earlier, I've expanded a bit too much, when I started to write about trains. Thought it was a bit too much there, I decided to post a separate topic about train travels in Italy.

Before our trip we had to choose which transport will we use while in Italy. It was too cold for bikes, too expensive ...[more]

Posted on:
2009 09 05

Trip tale: part I (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary)

Day 1: Start of our journey was marked nothing unexceptional, even we managed to get up early and on time, somehow we managed to be half an hour late to leave on schedule. Let me introduce our crew - me, my girlfriend Asta and of course our car - nearly 15 years old VW Golf, who is somewhat character itself.

We left home around 8 o'clock in the morning - few hours boring road and ...[more]

Posted on:
2009 09 16

Trip tale: part II (Hungary)

Day 4: was marked by a lot of walking - Gabor, our Hungarian couchsurfing host, took us to the Gyongyos center and old town, where we a bit cheated local museum's ticket office with our "crazy Lithuanian student cards" (actually that was certificate from my work with my photo on it), visited highest place in Hungary. Good thing is that you can reach it by car (first and only time in our trip when we ...[more]

Posted on:
2009 12 29

Few tips to make your journey less expensive

I had idea to write this entry after reading some comments about vacation trips. There are some people who work year after year and they never leave home or their country just because they think that traveling will cost them a fortune. It doesn't. What you need basically is a strong wish, some patience and courage to dare. We live in the time when possibilities are endless, travels are cheap ...[more]

Posted on:
2010 01 21

Beer Travels in 2009 - summary.

I just thought, that I should summarize last year - trips, destinations, beer. Looking back I have to say - this was truthfully good year.

So, statistics:
• countries traveled: 9, all in old continent.

Italy in spring, April. Visited cities: Florence, Lucca, Siena, Pisa. A nice trip to remember! Short story about one particular object I visited ...[more]

Posted on:
2010 07 28

Photo tale from Romania

I just came to me that I did not share photos for some time - here we go, this time trip to center of Romania, in the middle of Transylvania, where vampires and bears feast in the middle of the city and prey on tourists..

Actually, the trip was pretty fun - it is very beautiful land with proud people and no bears (ok, maybe there are some, because we saw something that COULD be a footprint ...[more]