A little while back, I had written about the best method for finding and booking hostels. Having had one of my best hostel experiences while traveling around Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, I decided to write a follow up post giving a little shout out to the hostel I stayed at while on the trip: Wombat’s hostel chain. We stayed at Wombat’s in both Munich and Vienna so I was able to get a really good feel for the chain overall.

First and foremost, it was the cleanest and most professional hostel I’ve been too. Not to mention the staff were actually nice, a.k.a they liked there jobs, and were really knowledgeable about their respective cities.

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Classes finally started this week. It was kind of hard to get back into things seeing as I haven’t actually been to class in about a month and a half.

On Monday afternoon, I had Scottish Pirates and Privateers. I’m not going to lie; I figured a class on pirates wasn’t going to be all that difficult, but it turns out it’s probably going to be one of the hardest classes I’ll take in college. At least it’s interesting material; I mean who doesn’t want to read about pirates, so I don’t mind doing the work – right now anyway.

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I just got back from my 9 days in Central/ Eastern Europe – Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague.  It was my most successful trip thus far in terms of actually seeing the sights and experiencing local culture.  I’m getting pretty good at

Prague

the whole tourist thing, and I should be after making my way through 8 different countries since I’ve been abroad.

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I’m writing this at 1:00am Scottish time (8:00pm EST), but it’s no biggie because I can wake up whenever I want tomorrow. That’s right, my final exams and my first semester at St. Andrews are finally over.

This weekend: 50° with a 100% chance of sun

I can’t say final exams were easy, especially without midnight breakfast and other study week festivities (Holy Cross people know what I’m talking about), but I made it out alive so life is good.

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I made it back to Scotland on Tuesday.  It was great to be home, and I’m glad I took advantage of the time to relax and

Times Square

see everyone.  At the beginning of the year, I hadn’t planned on making the trip home, but looking back, it was definitely a better decision than staying on the frozen tundra that is St. Andrews right now, having to cook my own food with the 10 people still left in the dorm.

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