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If you’re in Europe even for a week, you simply can’t just do one city or country and leave. Most cities in Europe take about ~3/4 days to explore so you definitely take the opportunity and visit other neighboring countries or cities in the same country. This time around when I was in Europe, I […]

The main reason why I was in Valencia was that I wanted to attend the annual tomato festival in Buñol, Spain. Before I get started with how the festival was, I just want to give you guys a little background. La Tomatina Festival is a festival that is held once a year on the last

Dublin. I had originally planned on staying in Dublin for a day because my return ticket to Chicago had a whole day layover there, but my fate had some other plans. This was my itinerary for those last two days in Europe: I would take my scheduled evening flight from Milan to London then once,

The biggest reason why I wanted to visit Milan was because of my name. So I can say, I’ve been to Milan and my friends can say “Milan has been to Milan” or “Milan was in Milan last year (or a different time frame). I know, it’s funny that I would do that but you

Pisa is a really small city; I mean the only reason why it’s famous is because of the leaning tower. You won’t even need a full day. Thus, I made it more like a pit stop on my way to Milan from Florence. There are many things I love about Italy but the biggest thing

This blog post is going to be a little bit different. As you know, I usually post about five to six things about each city from what hostel I stayed into public transportation option but since Cinque Terre was a very sudden and quick move, it was a day tour from Florence and thus, I

If you went through my previous blog post about Rome, you already know that I left Rome a day early and added that day to my 2 days in Florence making it a 3-day trip! Leaving Rome as fast as I could be my main concern and I had achieved it by getting on my train to Florence a day earlier, my

Rome was my fourth city in Europe and to be honest with you guys, my least favorite. I was actually pretty excited about Rome because I was meeting up with my cousin and brother-in-law. A part of me was starting to miss home and was wondering how I was going to spend another week and

Before I chose Barcelona, I had a long debate going on with myself on whether I should pick Madrid or Barcelona. Barcelona was my 3rd city on my solo backpacking trip and my favorite city out of all the European cities I visited that summer. This city has everything— beaches, cheap food, amazing architecture, warm