Trips for Parliament Building

May 4, 2007. Toronto, Canada. Finally, I set off to Athens for a 23 day trip, alone. Quite often, I had friends asking me the similar questions, "Backpacking? Greece? Turkey? Why?" And quite often, I felt hesitant to answer. "The freedom . …

Nate and I arrived in London Gatwick Airport, totally jet lagged, around 11 AM. We took the Gatwick Express to Victoria Station. It was quite expensive but very convient. When we got to Victoria we took out some cash and headed to our hotel …

We arrived in the airport after a long, but smooth flight. I felt tired and full from a meal of nothing but disgusting carbs. Bad pasta, bad bread, bad crackers, etc. It took forever to get our passports stamped and then to get our bags. The …

We are a group of 4 women - 2 friends and 2 daughters, who like to travel. But the men don't. One of us is a single woman, and has gotten the others to travel. We all have different travel styles, some like to see everything, while some want …

Didn’t make it to bed as everything took a lot more time than I budgeted; including getting a compass and a decent bag for Michael, which entailed a trip to Toyku Hands. So I stayed up all night alternately packing and futzing around on the compu …

The alarm rang at 5:50 am...of course, I didn't actually get out of bed till 6:15 am. After some final clean-up and packing the car, we were on the road by 7 am - sleepy and nervous. Every sentence starts up with, "This time tomorrow we'll …

Exploring Europe solo from Athens to London, via Rome, Florence, Venice and Paris.

29.06.07 Finally we've got our visas! We were very nervous about it since we bought our tour almost in the last minute. 30.06.07 We landed in Athenes' airport about 1 hour in the afternoon. As there were only 4 tourist heading to our hotel …

We are getting excited from now planning about our trip :) We still have about 2 yrs to go before we start but I read somewhere that people have planned for 5 years. We are not yet sure about the budget but I think $100 per person per day should …