Summer Plans

I figure that this is a good forum to let people in on what my general summer plans are. My parents fly out of Frankfurt on the Monday the 31st of May, and after that I am traveling independently until July 11th when I fly out of Dublin to begin my journey home. For those of you who are not so hot at math: that’s about 6 weeks. I currently don’t know exactly what my schedule will be from day to day, or even week to week. I have destinations in mind and a Eurail pass that will take me almost anywhere on the continent. My plan is just to “wing it” as much as possible and live out of my backpack in either Hostels or by Couchsurfing. This is a foreign concept to me and most everyone, but I’m a fast learner and I’m sure I’ll have it all figured out in a week or two. I’m also not traveling with a computer (too much weight) and will have to do thing the “old fashioned way” by booking things by phone or just going hostel to hostel until I find a place to stay. If all else fails I have friends who will be in Brussels, Freiburg, Oldenburg, Dublin, and Italy that I can stay with for a bit.


The general plan is to head north from Frankfurt, hit the Cologne/Rhine area, then swing over to Brussels for a few days to visit IES folk, then head back into Germany to visit my friend Lexi in Oldenburg (near Hamburg and Bremen). From there things get a little less planned. I’m thinking Denmark and Norway before heading for warmer waters. I have heard good things about the fjords in Norway and want to see those. Then I will head southeast, probably hitting Berlin again for a few days, hopefully stopping off in Prague again as well. I’m hoping from there to see Austria, Croatia, hit some other parts of Switzerland, the French Rivera, and then the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal). Once I get that far I will probably be close to the end of my time and have to head back toward Ireland. I’m planning to have a few days in Great Britain and Ireland too before I leave, and get re-acclimated to English.

As I’ve already said before I will probably be quite unreachable for the most part. I’ll have occasional access to computers in Hostels or whatever, so drop me emails and stuff! I will also have my telephone on me. My German number will be my primary contact until I run out of minutes, then it will be back to my American number.

I don’t really know what this summer holds, but I’m sure whatever it is it will be quite the experience. I look forward to seeing everyone when I get home (and before I head to Oregon for a family trip).