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My thoughts

This is my firs independent summer. I finally have the money, age and time to do some travelling! I started my summer by visiting Creta, ah what a lovely place. Safe choise, lot of activity and cheap to travel! But the main event of my year is upcoming interrailing trip! For those of you who don’t know what interrail means; backpacking trip done by train!

Facts

Company: traveling with my boyfriend (hopefully can call him that after the trip *nervous laughter*). We’ve been together for just over 2 years, but hey! Who’s counting.

Plans: kind of open, but I’m definitely NOT that kind of person who just lefts without any plans what so ever! We have plane tickets to Praha and after that Munich. And after that… Budapest, Croatia, Alps, Italy, Monaco, West France… Plan is to visit the small places maybe more that the well-known.

Time: Plane takes off -> 30. September We have 1 month interrail passes so we are coming back home around 3.11, give or take

Me: I’m 18 years at the moment (born 27.9.1996). I live in Finland and that’s about all you really need to know about me! No wait, I have moderate dyslexia so if the letters hop in to wrong place don’t be suprised! And member that english is nothing close to mother language when it comes to me.

I wish my blog helps all of you who are planing to go interreiling. I try to give tips along the way! I didn’t find a blogger who travelled the countries I’m going to, so I hope my blog helps you future interreilers to plan your trips! I also hope that the rest of the world can find a little getaway through my blog!

Enjoy! (I know I will)

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VENICE

We arrived around midnight. We didn't have a map and Venice is full of tiny streets and alleys. We asked for help from several people and they were all very eager to help, but couldn't really offer any helpful information. Eventually we found our hostel (the hostel lady wasn't happy about us arriving after 1 am).

Venice is really beautiful, with it's old houses and streets and squares. Sanni thinks it smells like an old attick everywhere (and it's a good thing). The weather's been nice, people are nice and... everything is nice! We adore this city. It isn't a huge place (we've ran into the same people many times) and there aren't cars so it's not very noisy either. We've been in Italy once before, in Rome. Venice is completely different, and we like it better here.

Tonight at 9 we'll take a night train to Munich, Germany. We'll arrive at 6 am. We've already booked a hostel, which was incredibly challenging because every place seemed to be full. Actually every single hotel IN GERMANY seemed to be booked full. Anyway, we'll post from somewhere in Germany next!

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Paris II

On wednesday we decided to climb to the top of Notre Dame. The queue was extremely long but we thought WHAT THE HELL, we are here, we have to do it. We stood in the line almost two hours. And after that we climbed hunderds of steps. But it was worth it, the view was breathtaking. Europeans under the age of 26 get in for free, IF THEY HAVE THEIR ID's with them. We didn't have them, so we paid 5,50 € for it.

Later on that day we tried to get to the Eiffel Tower, but couldn't find the bus stop. So then we just hung out at a beautiful fountain (Place Saint-Sulpice). We took pictures but unfortunately we can't upload them now. We've now figured out how to get to the Eiffel tower and will go there tonight. While we were looking for the bus stop, we found an interesting looking castle called Palais Du Luxembourg. We are going to visit it as well (at least the park around it, if not the castle itself).

Yesterday we woke up at 7 to go to Louvre. It opens at 9 and we wanted to be there early enough so we wouldn't have to stand in line for very long. We were there around half past 8, and there was a small queue, but it didn't take too long to get in. Unfortunately Taika's been sick and yesterday happened to be one of the worst days, so eventually she just sat on a bench and Sanni tried (in vain) to find the painting's of Vermeer. (The map was stupid). We both did see Mona Lisa and some other da Vinci paintings. We didn't see all the paintings we wanted, but we'll visit again some other time.

Now that Taika has slept for about 15 hours, eaten medicine and drank coffee, she's back on track again. Now we are going to reserve seats for the train that will take us (tomorrow) from Paris to Toulon. ATTENTION! Important information about trains in France: seat reservations are compulsory in some of the trains. If you don't have a reservation, you will get fined. We almost did, but the Train Man was kind and only warned us. From Toulon we'll take a bus to Bormes les Mimosas.

Our hostel here in Paris is called Hotel Victoria and it's cheap and quite cute. Also the staff is very nice. It's quite far away from everything but you can easily get everywhere by bus. The ticket is only 1,90€.

In Brugge we stayed in St Christopher's Inn. They have hostels in many countries and rooms are cheap and comfy. The beds have curtains, which is nice if you sleep in a mixed dorm like we did. Also there is free breakfast.