“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Augustine of Hippo
I have the itch. You know what I’m talking about right? That burning desire to go and explore somewhere new. Sometimes it can be satisfied with merely exploring a new restaurant or part of the city. But, sometimes it cannot.
This itch hits me especially hard in the middle of winter. I often spend my snowdays and free time aimlessly roaming on Orbitz, Skyscanner or Kayak trying to find a good deal so I can convince my husband to go on yet another adventure come summer. Sometimes I’m successful, other times I’m not. However this year I got the nod. The “ok I think you can start planning this” after I’ve made my 30 min pitch on all the wonderful things we will see.
Boy, I sure do love my husband. 😉
Here’s the crazy plan that I came up with:
Crazy right? Yea, I’ve heard that all summer BUT I’m calling this our “Sampling” trip. Meaning that we’ll go back to a place, if we decide that it’s worthy of a return trip.
I’ve already done the London, Paris, Rome excursions, so I wanted to create a trip that was half on the main tourist trail, and half off the beaten path. Here are the cities that we are stopping at:
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Lucerne, Switzerland
- Interlaken, Switzerland
- Milan, Italy
- Verona, Italy
- Venice, Italy
- Postojana, Slovenia
- Ljubjana, Slovenia
- Zagreb, Croatia
- Budapest, Hungary
- Bratislava, Slovakia
- Vienna, Austria
- Salzburg, Austria
- Munich, Germany
- Dachau, Germany
We decided to purchase a 15 Day Global Eurail Pass that will cover us in every country. We also decided to do this trip as cheap as possible and focused our efforts on booking hostels and cheaper (but decent!) hotels.
I’m excited to see historic sites, eat various ethnic foods and meet other amazing people around the world! Ahhh…is there anything as exciting in the world as traveling?
Feel free to follow along with me for updates on this great and glorious adventure! And check out my other pages on places we’ve visited in past years!