May 012014
 

Hotel in HeidelbergI’ll show you the cheapest and also the best types of accommodation given your travel needs throughout Europe.  This includes the websites where you can book the accommodations and how to choose between the different types of accommodations, as well as how I make this decision.

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Apr 182014
 

Don’t you just love it when you realize that you are too large to fit properly into the bathroom that you have to use for the next week!  I think if I was Asian this might be a spacious bathroom, except of course for Yao Ming (but we all know that he is a robot anyway).

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Jul 032013
 

The movie Hostel does a good job of scaring us silly Americans into thinking that Hostels are places of sin, evil, and death, particularly death (read my Hostel in Florence – Does a Serial Killer Live Here article).  However, the truth about Hostels, at least most of them, couldn’t be farther from this characterization. Continue reading »

Jun 252013
 

My first Hostel experience in years was in Florence in 2012.  Money becomes quite a bit scarcer once you pay for things yourself and I was now traveling on my own dime.  The last hostel that I stayed in years before this was a very nice and new hostel.  It was big, clean, SAFE, and full of people that follow rules!  As such, I expected all hostels to be like this.  I was wrong, very wrong… Continue reading »