by Sarah Gallo | Sep 12, 2015 | Romania
After a night of tossing and turning on a sleepless overnight bus, we arrived in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We wanted to couchsurf through the majority of our trip, so we decided to start in Romania with Petri! His lovely girlfriend, Andrada, offered to pick us up from the...
by Sarah Gallo | Aug 31, 2015 | Accommodation Reviews, Bulgaria, Europe, Reviews
After a fabulous stay at Hostel Mostel Veliko Tărnovo, we took a 3.5 hour bus to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It took us a while to get to Hostel Mostel Sofia once at the bus station, but eventually we found our way and were made comfortable immediately. Upon...
by Sarah Gallo | Jul 30, 2015 | Colombia, South America
From Medellín, take a bus from Terminal Sur to Armenia for 41,000 pesos. Once in Armenia, take a minibus to Salento for 4,000 pesos; it takes about 45 minutes. If you’re headed to Salento, you absolutely must stay at La Serrana – my favorite hostel/campsite in...
by Sarah Gallo | Jun 5, 2015 | Central America, Costa Rica
People usually go to Monteverde for one reason: to wander the Monteverde Cloud Reserve. For a $10 entrance fee, you have access to all of the trails throughout the reserve (and you can have a guide for an additional cost as well). We decided that a guide was...
by Sarah Gallo | May 31, 2015 | Central America, Nicaragua
To get from Playa Maderas to Isla Ometepe proved much easier than it looked on paper. First, we decided to take the 30 minute shuttle back to San Juan del Sur to wander the city a bit. The trek on the beach back to the shuttle outside Los Tres Hermanos proved brutal...