Well I thought I’d give my mishaps of backpacking round Europe a bit of a break and write about some of the joys I had when I flew to LA with a few friends.
Now to give just a little background, a mate had been planning a trip with two of his fellow workers. A few […]

Part three of Backpacking Calamities.
From Rapallo we travelled onto Pisa, toured Rome, before arriving in Naples. We stayed a couple of days in the small coastal town of Sorrento near Naples (lovely place), and were looking to commence our travels once more. The plan this time was that we would catch an overnight train from […]

Part two of Backpacking Calamities.
You last saw the intrepid travellers finally reaching Paris. I won’t bore you with all the details, but we managed to make our way across France down to the south coast.
We arrived in Marseille at about one in the morning. Headed out of the station only to find a sign informing […]

It was in 2002, and me and a friend had decided to backpack round Europe. We got ourselves a couple of rail passes and headed off with the basic plan - start from Paris and head counter-clockwise round Western Europe. Now, you may think that a plan so cunning in it’s simplicity as this one […]