San Diego Comic-Con 2010

I’ve had enough time back home to reflect on the craziness and fun that is the yearly San Diego Comic-Con. This was the first time I attended Comic-Con, but it absolutely blew away any expectations I had for it. Wednesday:…

Cyphan 2010

Last weekend I attended my first convention, Cyphan, in Wheeling, IL. This was a first year sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention, but it felt far from it. Everything was well planned and put together, Mike and his staff worked hard and it paid…

Days 16 – 17: London to the US

We spent most of the day yesterday hanging around the hostel. Two weeks of walking, travelling, and sleeping in new places, exhaustion has finally set in. The bar/restaurant attached to the hostel really does make the most delicious cheeseburgers. I…

Day 15: Kiev to London

We checked out of the hostel and made our way through the street markets we had seen two days ago. As it had been on almost all of our other flights we had time to kill. Going through customs and…

Days 13 – 14: Kiev

After we got up and got ready we got to talking to the hostel owner. After finding out that I did computer support, he offered to give us free lodging if I could fix the public computer. I spent probably…

Day 12: Cologne to Kiev

We did a bit more walking around the city to kill time because the flight out wasn’t until about 8:00pm. Boarding the plane, we found out quickly that Ukrainians do not have the same concept as a personal bubble. It…

Day 11: Dusseldorf

We took a bullet train out to Dusseldorf today, it only took about a half-hour or so to get there from Cologne. The train station wasn’t near the center of the city, so we had a mile or two walk…

Day 10: Cologne

Today we walked around the city more. We visited a Cologne history museum. Really other than that, there wasn’t really anything exciting. Cologne can definitely be done in 2 days. Tomorrow we take a day trip out to Dusseldorf.

Days 8 – 9: Cologne

Once we arrived in Cologne yesterday, we were going to walk to the hostel, but the hostel was atleast two miles away and the map we had wasn’t exactly the best. We ended up flagging a taxi to get to…

Day 7: Prague and on the train

Our train wasn’t leaving until about 6:30pm, but we had to check out of the hotel room by 10:00am. We stored our luggage with the hotel and walked around the city with no set agenda except to buy some souvenirs…