2022 Europe Trip
publish The result of Traveling after leaving Cloud SQL. I solo traveled Europe between 2022-05-04 and 2022-05-25.
California Bay Area (Day 0)
- Packed my bags for London.
- 8pm: Caught my plane!
London (Days 1-4)
- 2pm: Landed.
- Took the tube to Wombat’s City Hostel.
- Ran for 3 miles.
- 9pm: Called it an early night.
- 4am: Woke up, played Pokemon, and fell back asleep.
- 8am: Woke again.
- Got an English breakfast.
- Felt horribly sick.
- Got a negative COVID test.
- Visited Denmark St.
- Got lunch at a Google office.
- 7pm: Slept early again.
- 6am: Woke feeling much better.
- Walked to:
- London Bridge.
- St. Paul’s Cathedral.
- British Museum.
- Borough Market.
- Got a meat pie for lunch from the Market.
- 2pm: Saw Julius Caesar in the Globe Theatre.
- Visited Tate Modern.
- 6:30pm: Dinner at the Mudlark.
- Laundry.
- Bought Eurostar tickets to Paris.
- 7:30am: Woke up.
- Stored my luggage at the hostel.
- Tube to Baker St.
- Lovely breakfast at the Potting Shed.
- Walk-biked to Abbey Rd.
- Walk-tubed to:
- Big Ben.
- London Eye.
- Dropped by Tate Modern to buy a souvenir mug.
- Picked up my bags from Wombat’s.
- Went to St. Pancras International Station.
- Changed my ticket from the 7pm train to the 4:30pm train.
- 8:30pm: Arrived in Gare du Nord, Paris.
- 9:30pm: Arrived at Hotel Madrigal.
- Met Wit! He invited me to stay at his place in Warsaw.
Paris (Days 5-7)
- 9am: Woke up.
- Best meal of my whole trip at Coutume.
- Walked to:
- The Louvre.
- Centre Pompidou.
- Marche des enfants rouges (which was closed).
- 5pm: McDonalds.
- Iles du cite.
- Saint-Chapelle (which was closed).
- Notre Dame (which was closed due to having been on fire).
- Second best meal of my trip at Cafe Louise.
- Scooped my stuff from Hotel Madrigal.
- 10:30pm: Arrived at Karl’s place in Boulogne-Billancourt.
- 9am: Woke up.
- 11am: Nice cafe near Karl’s place.
- Went to the Musée d’Orsay.
- Coffee in the Jardin des Tuileries.
- Macarons at Angeline.
- More coffee at Boulangerie Eric Kayser.
- Returned to Saint-Chapelle in time to see the interior.
- Watched the sunset over the Seine.
- 8:30pm: Worst meal of my trip at Café Varenne.
- 10pm: Arrived at Karl’s place and slept.
- 8:30am: Woke up.
- Delphine kindly brought me some tea and pastries.
- Bought tickets to Brussels, Bruges, and Brussels again so I could make a theoretical flight to Copenhagen/Prague/Warsaw.
- 12pm: Went into the Jardin area with Karl via electric scooter.
- 1pm: Lunch at Google Paris.
- Went to the Musée de l’Orangerie.
- Got coffee.
- Made this page!
- Got a souvenir shirt at Printemps.
- Touristy trap French onion soup for dinner.
- Dessert with Karl and Delphine.
- 12am: Slept.
Brussels (Days 7-8)
- 6am: Woke up to travel to Gare du Nord.
- Got a sandwich and chocolate bread from Paul at the station.
- Caught my train to Brussels.
- 12:30pm: Arrived at the Latroupe Grand Place hostel and dropped my bags.
- Walked to:
- Église Saint-Nicolas.
- The Grand-Place.
- Musée de la ville de Bruxelles (Grand-Place museum).
- Garde Robe Manneken Pis (pissing statue museum).
- Manneken Pis (the boy himself).
- Poechenellekelder (beer garden).
- Le Roy d’Espagne (restaurant in the Grand-Place).
- The red light district OOPS.
- 8pm: Slept early.
- 8am: Woke up.
- Subway to Atomium.
- Walk-subwayed to:
- Suburban Brussels.
- Some grill place.
- Palace of Justice.
- Notre Dame cathedral.
- Ate crepes and fries for dinner… too much food.
- Booked tickets for Bruges hostel, Brussels hostel, and flights to Prague.
- 11:30pm: Slept.
Bruges (Days 9-10)
- 7:30am: Woke up.
- 9am: Caught a train to Bruges.
- 10am: Arrived and walked 30 min to the St. Christopher’s Bauhaus hostel where I stored my bags for a 2pm check-in.
- Wandered around on foot and saw incredibly beautiful sights:
- Pop-up arts stand selling ceramics.
- Waffle shop.
- Church bells eventually leading to the Grote Markt (market square) next to the Belfry.
- A shop just for little kids shoes.
- 2 pop-up music stages next to the Church of the Holy Blood.
- 2:30pm: Checked into the hostel and rested a bit where I met Waell.
- Walked around more:
- Windmills on the outskirts of Bruges.
- Riverside cafe with a beer I liked a lot.
- Misc outskirts of the city where I caught a Shellos.
- 10:30pm: Slept.
- 8am: Woke due to Waell’s mumbling.
- Had the second worst shower of my life.
- 10:40am: Climbed the Belfry.
- Dipped into Elisabeth to buy chocolates.
- 12:30pm: Went to a super cute brunch restaurant called That’s Toast.
- Walked around a lot of the city catching Pokemon for the water festival mega energy quests.
- 9pm: Caught a train back to Brussels with a painful amount of PDA across from me.
- Train back to Brussels at 9pm, crashing in the hostel in order to catch a plane the next day.
Prague (Days 11-13)
- 8:30am: Woke up.
- Multithreaded laundry with shower and breakfast.
- Just kidding. This was the worst meal of the trip.
- Plus the shower flooded my room.
- Took an Uber to the airport.
- While in the airport I booked a hotel. After the flooding I am so done with living in hostels.
- 2:40pm: Caught a plane to Prague.
- 4pm: Arrived in Prague airport.
- 5pm: Arrived at Hotel Atos.
- Potatoed.
- 7:30pm: Got food at Luka Li.
- Potatoed until 1am.
- 1am: Slept.
- 9:30am: Woke up.
- 11am: Breakfast at Bella Vida Café.
- Took some ritalin and worked by the riverbank near the hotel.
- Put together an album of the food I’d eaten.
- Messaged Cloud SQL about my adventures.
- Wandered back to my hotel eventually.
- 6pm: Wandered outside past:
- A shopping mall.
- The Státní operahouse.
- A tall black tower I can’t find the name of (Senovážné Square building?).
- The Prašná brána tower gate.
- Čech Bridge.
- Climbed up to the Vyhlídka na Letné (View of Letné) / Prague Metronome.
- 8:30pm: Dinner at U Pivrnce.
- Walked through:
- Staroměstská Mostecká Věž (Old Town Bridge Tower).
- Karlův most (Charles Bridge).
- Caught a brief glimpse of Prague Castle.
- 10pm: Back at the hotel.
- 3am: Slept after procrastinating playing LoR.
- chill in Prague
- Got lunch at the Google office.
- Visited the national museum.
- Visited Prague Castle.
- Souvenir: Bought crystal glasses.
Warsaw (Day 14)
- Fly to Warsaw in the morning at 9:55am-11:15am.
- Crash at Wit’s place in the evening.
Riga (Day 15-18)
- Hang in Warsaw for the morning / partial afternoon
- Plane in the afternoon to Riga at
- chill in riga
- chill in riga
- catch a plane back home to SF
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- chill in riga
- Plane to SF in the morning… need to work this out
(Ok the following isn’t really the Europe trip anymore)
California Bay Area
- asdf
- Flight to Boston in the evening.
Boston
- First day in Boston.
- Etc.
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