Author: Matthew Schmidt
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A Day In Wien, Austria
The Adventure The first day of the last leg of my Christmas 2023 trip was spent entirely travelling from Malmö, Sweden, to Wien, Austria. The second day of this leg was spent in Wien. Knowing nothing about the city I had just arrived in, I scanned Google Maps for landmarks and set my sights upon…
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Visiting My Favourite Cathedral In Köln, Germany
The Adventure Köln is one of the few cities that I visited with intention to see something I already knew about. As opposed to my usual knowledgeless wanderings, the Köln Cathedral had appeared on my Instagram years prior and become a fascination of mine. The rest of the city, though, was a mystery to me.…
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My Day In Berlin, Germany
The Adventure The second and shortest leg of my holiday adventures began with a day in Berlin, Germany. I arrived at the main train station late in the morning and set off at first just doing a loop in the area. Berlin is another city that I visited without knowing much about it, so I…
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Taking In All Of Bruxelles, Belgium By Train
The Adventure I visited Bruxelles right after my morning in Luxembourg. The train ride was just a few hours, which I took to the end of the line in Bruxelles. I realized later that this was a mistake, as the Central Station in the Belgian capital was a few stops earlier, and closer to where…
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A Visit To See What Luxembourg Is All About
The Adventure My adventure in Luxembourg began early in the morning after arriving at the train station in the middle of the city. Luxembourg was one city in my travels that I especially knew very little about. Signs around the station and city told me that it was a French-speaking area, which was good, because…
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Nighttime In Zürich, Switzerland
The Adventure Zürich is another city I wish I had more time in. Like Milano, I only arrived later in the evening, and didn’t have the time to fully explore the city as much as I would have liked. Arriving later in the day also meant it was darker out, and I couldn’t see everything…
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A Short Visit To Liechtenstein
The Adventure Liechtenstein is a very small country. A lot of you probably haven’t even heard of it. Cramped between Switzerland and Austria, Liechtenstein is a country surrounded by mountains. Its capital is Vaduz, with a population of less than 6,000. The country as a whole has a population of less than 40,000, and is…
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My Quick First Impressions Of Milano, Italy
The Adventure My plan for the 17th had always been to spend it in Switzerland, then go down into Italy on the 18th. Obviously, things did not go as planned. The beauty of travelling with a Eurail pass was that that didn’t matter too much. I arrived in Bern, Switzerland in the morning, but after…
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When Train Delays Led To A Layover In Domodossola, Italy
The Adventure This will be a very short blog, as my time in Domodossola was completely an accident. I was transferring trains on my way to Milano, but due to some sort of transportation error, there was a long layover in Domodossola. I used these couple hours to do a brief walk around the small…
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A Cold Morning In Bern, Switzerland
The Adventure I was planning on spending the day in Switzerland, but my time was cut short by the cold weather and I decided my time would be more pleasantly spent further south. However, I did still manage to spend a bit of time in Bern before I caught the train to Domodossola, Italy. I…
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Exploring The Famous Canals Of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Adventure At the end of 2023, I decided to take a three-week Christmas trip across Europe. The first stop on this trip was Amsterdam, Netherlands. I’m not sure what drew me to Amsterdam specifically, though I remember my mindset during this trip being to cover as much ground as possible within the limits of…
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Walking All Day To Lund, Sweden
The Adventure Being the cheap man that I am, I decided to walk from where I lived in Malmö, Sweden instead of taking the bus or train all the way to Lund. Public transportation, which would have cost 43,50 SEK for a student, or 58 SEK for an adult (around $5.75-$7.75 CAD), and taken around…
Matthew C. Schmidt 