Can't Escape That Fashion

I should have done this from the start, but I guess better late then never. And I still have the majority of my trip left. Today is my last day in Prague, but I might as well have been back home for all the use I made of it.

I know it's incredibly shallow, but my clothing choices for this trip have been driving me crazy. For someone that lives in leggings or skinny jeans and her converse all stars at home, it's been really hard having to wear big baggy cargo pants and tennis shoes. I thought I picked simple inconspicuous clothes that would help me blend in, but as it happens there isn't a young girl on the streets here in Europe without her converse all-stars and skinny jeans . . . So after whining about it for the past two weeks, I finally went out and bought a couple must need items, so A) I won't look so much like a tourist/possible terrorist and B) I will actually feel comfortable/confident in my appearance. Just one of the many things I've learned in my short time traveling - you don't have to compromise fashion if backpacking. It's so difficult being alone and so far from home, the more you can do to make yourself comfortable, the happier you'll be.

All of these hostels play the most horrid American pop music and over the past couple of weeks I have kept hearing this song with the most annoying lyrics, something about "wanting to take a ride on your disco stick" whatever that means . . . anyway I finally asked these two Australian girls I'm sharing a room with who sang it, and they gave me this "are you kidding me look?" Apparently it's Lady Gaga - and while I'm very aware of Lady Gaga's eclectic fashion choices - I realized I'd never actually knew anything she sang. I'm out of the loop.

I'll be heading over to Krakow tomorrow and will be there for nine days. I've booked my hostels already, but now I kind of wish I had split the time between two cities. I can still make day trips, and I definitely plan on seeing Auschwitz and Birkenau, but I hope I don't get bored. I booked two really good hostels though, so hopefully they will be a lot more fun than this hostel I've been at in Prague. Apparently the one I'll be staying at on Monday night just stuffs you with free food. Always a plus in my book!

I'm taking the train to Krakow with these two girls from Sydney. They're only 19 and not anyone I'd ever be friends with at home, but they're nice, and they've been traveling now for three months so they've been giving me some good advice. Australia seems like such a great country - I'm sure it has it's flaws, but from what I've heard, it seems like a better deal than America. All the Australians I've met so far seem to save a lot of money in a short amount of time, and then travel for months - I inquired about the minimum wage, and she said it's $14 Australian dollars, which is equal to about $12 US dollars! No wonder they can all afford to travel.

After Krakow, I'm heading to Budapest, but from there, I'm at a loss as to what to do . . . I considered heading over to Spain for a week when I found a $60 round-trip flight, but then they continued to charge an extra $40 for carry-on luggage! I'll more than likely just continue down south over to the coast of the Adriatic and then jet over to Romania before possibly hitting up the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria.

Hopefully I'll figure out a way to download my pics while I'm in Krakow - it'd be nice to add them to this blog. I wish I weren't so intimidated by PC's, especially these really old ones that all the hostels seem to have.