All in Travel
We arrived in Vienna, Austria after a short (1 ½ hr) bus ride from Bratislava. We disembarked, strapped on our backpacks, and started to walk into city center. It didn’t take long before we were looking around and up in awe! We couldn’t believe how beautiful the buildings were.
We embarked on this year of travel, knowing that many of the comforts of home we’d grown accustom to wouldn't be available on our trip. Either the sheer circumstance of not being in our own home, or the fact that our bags can only fit so much stuff, meant that we were going to need to manage without a lot of 'stuff' we were used to having for the next year or so. Of course, we knew this going into it, so it wasn't a surprise to us.
If you're planning a trip to Vienna, you're probably trying to figure out where to stay, where to eat, and how to get around the city.
We were fortunate enough to be asked to house sit a home, a dog (Mono), and two cats (Tigris and Bella) in the center of Vienna, Austria. So, as the date of our scheduled house sit approached, we started to look for transportation from our current location, Cluj-Napoca, Romania to Vienna, Austria.
Bratislava, Slovakia and our travel plans met, totally by accident (a welcome accident we might add!). Let us tell you the story of how we, Screw The Average, ended up in Bratislava. We'll try to make it quick!
Bratislava offers a great network of trams, trolleybuses, and buses, so the city was only a short trip away. Plus, we’d be able to use public transportation to make our getting around the city easier!
When you think of traveling Europe, Romania probably isn’t in the top five (or even 10) places you think of visiting. However, in our humble opinion, it should be!
We’d argue that a visit to the Transylvania region in Romania isn’t complete without some time spent in Sighisoara. There are many reasons to add this town to your bucket list, just take your pick!
Transylvania and the countryside of Romania called to us, and the road we’d take there was the Transfagarasan Highway (Transfăgărășan in Romanian). A drive on this road isn’t your average road trip; it’s often listed as one of the top road trips in the world...
We'll go out on a 'limb' and say that it isn’t every day that you hear someone talk about visiting Bucharest, Romania, but this Eastern-European capital, in our opinion, is a hidden gem. Take our word for it; this is a place you’re going to want to visit! Moreover, visit soon, since it won’t be long before this wonderful city becomes a huge tourist destination
We rented a studio a couple of miles outside of ‘Old Town’, so sightseeing and nightlife was just a metro or tram ride away. We found that public transportation in Bucharest is extensive, frequent, and easy to use.
We spent a month living in Bucharest, Romania and a few weeks traveling through Transylvania. During our time there, we learned how to get by as tourists and as ‘locals’. With the goal of experiencing the country to its fullest, with everything it has to offer, yet saving money where possible, we learned a lot about Bucharest and Transylvania, Romania.
The Schengen Agreement was signed on June 14, 1985 in Schengen, Luxembourg and supplemented in 1990, by the Schengen Convention.
Our travels brought us to Oslo, Norway. We were excited to explore a new country and spend time in Scandinavia.
As you may imagine, public transportation is a bit different in every city around the world. From knowing which type of ticket to purchase, ticket validity and zone boundaries, to how to use the system (trams, trains, metros, buses, etc.) it can take a bit of time and research to figure it all out.
Budget and low-cost airlines are just starting to make their way to the United States. However, they’re commonplace in Europe. We’ve enjoyed our fair share of $30-$50 international flights around Europe and have learned a few lessons on saving money and making the most of the flight.
We set our sights on Paris! It was a city on our bucket list, one we really hoped we’d be able to see on our European travel adventure.
There’s no reason to have a car in Paris. Just like most of the other cities we’ve visited, the public transportation is more than adequate, if not superior to driving.
Today was the big day; it was the day we’d be seeing the Giza Pyramids!
As soon as we stepped off the plane in Cairo, you could argue that our experience of Cairo had begun. We immediately felt we were in a new place; the people, the culture, and the history of Cairo are so different from the other places we’ve been to in our current travels.
