a glimpse of my summer backpacking

I am jumping back on this blogging bandwagon, 'cause my absence has far exceeded what I ever anticipated it exceeding.

This Summer was exactly what I thought it would be...

a whirlwind

&

a cure for wanderlust.

(exploring in Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

This Summer, I stepped foot on the soil of nine different countries, and yet still, I kind of hardly believe that it happened.

Here's a very condensed glimpse at each:

(click the photos to enlarge for a MUCH better view!)

SPAIN

(Granada)

PORTUGAL

(Lagos)

THE NETHERLANDS

(Leiden)

BELGIUM

(Ghent)

GERMANY

(Berlin)

CZECH REPUBLIC

(Prague)

HUNGARY

(almost to Budapest by night train)

AUSTRIA

(Vienna)

(I realized that after loading these onto blogger, these photos look rather flat & uninteresting, although they don't when looking at them by other means...but it's 2:45 am & i am too tired to try to do anything about it. But, nonetheless, you get my drift. Also, the "ninth" country is England...though I did not go to England itself, I went to Gibraltar which is English territory, and while I was there, I did not have my camera.)