February 17th, 2010 My Plans for Backpacking Thru Europe
I have been planning this backpacking trip to Europe for some time. I was even given a wonderful map of Europe as a birthday gift by my mom when I first told her of my plans. I had a long list of places I was going to go, but I was absolutely going to start out by traveling to England first. London to be exact. I wanted to see all the tourist attractions, and maybe catch a glimpse of Bob Dylan’s first painting. Next I was going to Cambridge before a stop in Salisbury with Stonehenge. I know it sounds like a whirlwind now, but I’m planning on a more leisurely pace, and finding thing I had never expected as I walk down the streets and through the markets. From there it is France, where as much as I love Paris, I would really rather wander into some of the small towns, and really explore the countryside.
I am most excited about having decided to add some extra time for some of the eastern European countries including Hungary and Romania. Both of these places were inhabited by the Romans, and have some of the most exquisite bath houses you have ever seen. Because many of these places don’t get visited except by the locals, the prices stay really cheap and you can have a whole day of water fun jumping between heated pools, and ice cold ones. The water is always natural and many of them use the same technique to draw it out of the ground as the Romans did when they built the bath houses, even though they have been renovated and given more modern conveniences.
I will be ending my journey in Italy, where I would explore Vatican City, and the great history of artwork that is housed around there. In Rome I will probably explore the Jewish ghettos and There was only one problem with this trip so far, and that was leaving for it. On my drive down to Los Angeles, I began to realize, I really need a map of California. I got lost three times in my one hour drive.
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