off the beaten track.

well the joys of travelling away from the big city. i was assured when i jumped on the bus to nova gracia that there would be plentiful connections to rijeka, northern croatia. the next train out is at 7pm tonight, there are no buses and i arrived here at 8:15 this morning. Forced to relax, i can handle that. At least i have an extra few minutes to catch up on my journal and scam a few free internet minutes at the local library, which randomly has a vine snaking through the bookshelves. I think i listed the countries id visited a few weeks ago, not really sure where i got up to,(mabye czech republic) since then ive hooned through bratislava, budapest, ljubjlana, lake bled, bovec and now noca gracia. (hopefully rijeka later on tonight and then down the coast of croatia. Had some awesome days out in the wilderness in bovec, went canyoning which is where you, jump, slide abseil, scramble etc over/through waterfalls, cliffs and naturally made waterslides. ace. yesterday went whitewater rafting, not quite as extreme as i would have liked as the river was a bit low, but a decently fun arvo out. I have also attracted a large army of ants, which seem to crawl on and around my bags constantly, could have something to do with the jar of raspberry jam whihc shattered in my backpack... having stacks of fun meeting random people and experiencing the different cultures and lifestyles of people over here. trying to organise a visa for romania at the moment, which is proving quite difficult; over the next 4 weeks ill be working my way down to turkey(hopefully including romania), will be a stack of fun. My time is running out though- ill be back in oz in about a month. cant believe it. anyways gotta run. hope life is great where you are. take it easy. andy

europe 5 weeks in.

hey team, well im slowing down a bit at the moment, for the first 4 weeks i had a rail pass which covered every country in europe so i was hooning around checking out as many countries as i could. heaps of night trains, very little sleep, but heaps of new mates and great experiences. below is a list of the countries ive either explored, travelled through on transit or watched football in. the list is solid :
flew into
-milan then,
-austria
-germany
-poland
-lithuania
-latvia
-estonia
-finland
-denmark
-belgium
-france (re: stuck in paris)
-spain
-switzerland
-czech republic
-slovakia
-hungary (i arrived today and im typing this instead of seeing stuff)

i have 1 month left to make my way through eastern europe down to turkey, should be a stack of fun, i love eastern europe.

so, what did you do last month? hope you had as much fun as i did. anyways my net time is running out. hope life is ace where you are. im still alive. take it easy guys. andy

europe summer

hey guys,

have pretty much no time on the net so quick update. i left the uk on the 17th of june and legged it to germany to watch the ol socceroos play in the world cup. After being robbed by italy i headed to krakow and warsaw in poland, vilinus in lithuania, and also riga in latvia. Today i find myself in tallin, estonia. having a stack of fun meeting heaps of cool people, and really loving eastern europe. off to helsinki and copenhagen in the next few days. got heaps of countries to pack in. absolutely loving it over here, perfect weather, everythings cheap the people are cool as. heaps of mini adventures which i dont have time to write about. just letting you all know im alive and having fun. take it easy guys. andy