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Backpacking through Europe

March 15, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

That year, we went from Salzburg to Munich. We spent a few hours at Munich and then went to Berlin. And from Berlin, northward to Amsterdam. Our night in Amsterdam was another night out, but after so many journeys and so many crazy backpacking experiences, we’d figured out a few things. We had Eurail passes that […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Amsterdam, Austria, backpacking, Berlin, Europe, Florence, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Milan, Munich, Paris, Pisa, Rome, Salzburg, Venice, Vienna

Backpacking through Europe: Pisa

March 2, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Tempers were frayed on that journey to Pisa. What was the point of going to Pisa at all? Pisa was just a tourist gimmick, like the Brindavan Gardens in Mysore. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was the only thing to see; it could not be worth it. We would spend just a few hours there. I […]

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Torre Pendente

December 10, 2012 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

We had just a few hours at Pisa, but we could not travel all over Italy and not visit the famous leaning tower. So we asked a lady on a train what to do, and she wrote for us the name of the bus stop to which we needed to go to see the leaning […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: communication, Italy, language, leaning, Pisa, tower