Lost Cites is an interesting site that may give you some inspiration to visit some ancient building sites.
On way to travel and really see the culture of a country is to live there and work. Teaching english is one popular way to do this. You get to interact with people for a longer period of time in everyday situations and make long lasting friendships.
Cinque Terra is an awesome location and one of my favourites in Italy. There is a train line that runs between the 5 towns along the coastline south of Milan.
Funnily enough I heard about Cinque Terra in 3 different ways before I got there and it never clicked that everyone was talking about the same place.
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16/3/05 Wednesday
Woke up and it was entirely too light for my liking. My phone had turned itself off and my alarm hadn’t gone off. Luckily I didn’t miss my flight. Got to Dublin and checked the pubs out.
15/3/05 Tuesday
Geneva was pretty boring. Old, but not with the coolness of Montreux. There have this big fountain where it shoots up 140m. My left foot had another blister, so I didn’t bother walking closer.
14/3/05 Monday
Breakfast was even more sparse at the Funny Farm. You get a slice of bread and 2 types of jam to choose from. You can also make some tea…. but I didn’t see any sugar.
Checked out Bern. Bern has poor bears caged up in the city. The rest of Bern was okay.
13/3/05 Sunday
Decided to check into the other popular backpackers in Interlaken called the Funny Farm. The Lonely Planet says Australians are meant to flock there. I got a room with a bunch of Californians that were studying in Florence and on their spring break. They were cool.
11/3/05 Friday
I decided to stay in Zurich for a Friday night to see what it was like. I was going to get a room in a Lonely Planet recommended hotel called Hotel Otter that had themed rooms. The “reception” was upstairs of a pub and the door was closed. I decided to try elsewhere. I also checked out the City Backpackers hostel, and that seemed rather run down, so I headed back to Mathaus where I was the first night. That had free wireless internet (once I figured out how it worked).
10/3/05 Thursday
Got up late. One of my English friends from breakfast had left me a note on the breakfast table wishing me well on my trip. They had managed to implement my plan to get up early and hit the slopes. Today there was a bit of snow in the morning, but it soon cleared up to be a sunny day with blue skies. This doesn’t mean it was warm however. I skiied both sides of Lech and down into Zurs again. This time I could actually see! At one point I was sort of doing to jump from side to side type skiing with your feet together. I tend to have mine apart. I’ll have to read about skiing techniques sometime.