day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure *** One long and glorious sleep in our own little haven later and we were up and out for our first (but of course not first pastry-based) breakfast two doors down in Lerici. I couldn't tell if my saturated appreciation of this coffee and croissant [...]
Author: Phoebe
Europe 4. you don’t know nothing
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure As Kaila and I didn't really sleep all night, feeling like a slightly over-proud and very under-successful martyr, I continued into the next day fuelled by a sickly chocolate oozing pastry (or two), meaning that I felt an inconvenient concoction of ill and fatigue on a very uncomfortable train to [...]
Europe 3. roothub
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure. ODE TO ROOTHUB Our hostel had reached its incredibly low expectations with the sweet surprise of a (hopefully small) bedbug infestation. Well, when I say infestation, I mean that we found one creeping and crawling about just on Kaila's bed. Dampening the inclination to shift the [...]
Europe 2. bed bugs and selfie-sticks
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure. We spent an unsurprisingly sunny and tentatively tranquil day exploring Barcelona. Refreshing our palates with more croissants and orange juice, the seven of us battled our way through the maze of Boqueria market, slurping a dragonfruit and coconut smoothie and navigating aimlessly. Maddy descended into [...]
Europe 1. train man, train man, are there any more? no girls, no girls, all trains full
day by day, train by train, from page to screen: the story of our European adventure. It was 4.30 am: that strange time which isn't really early morning or dead at night and honestly should be slept through to entirely avoid the matter. Yet this would be the time to set our alarms and heroically fight our [...]
