Throughout the past few years Dawn Under has been to over 50 countries, divided over 6 continents.
A Trip Through Scotland
This summer has been pretty hot in the Netherlands, so I was really looking forward to our trip to Scotland. When me and my friend Kimberly (also check out her blog; The Travel Diary) initially booked the trip back in May, I was a bit worried about spending my summer holiday in a region that…
A Sudden End or a New Beginning?
As I promised in my last post, I will explain the email that I received. I was sitting on the bus from Podgorica to Kotor in Montenegro while I received a notification on my phone from LinkedIn saying that I had a message from some recruiter. Normally I don’t pay too much attention to these, since…
From Kosovo to Montenegro
2 – 8 July 2018 In Dürres (in Albania) I took a direct bus to Prizren in the south of Kosovo. It might have been more convenient to go to Kosovo from Skopje and then go to Albania, but then I would have had to miss out on Ohrid. So that’s why I chose this…
Albanian Wine & Mussels
28 June – 2 July 2018 After my brief visit to Ohrid in the south-western part of Macedonia, it was time for me to move on and cross the next border. At 4:30 a.m. I took the bus that would take me to Dürres, a coastal city in Albania. Initially I had intended to only…
Stumbling over Statues in Macedonia
24 – 27 June 2018 As I hinted at the end of my previous blog post, things didn’t really go as planned as Raquel and I left from Thessaloniki to Skopje in Macedonia. I’ll start at the beginning. We went to the train station in Thessaloniki to buy our tickets for Skopje. Naturally, we expected…
A Trip to Ancient Greece
22 – 24 June 2018 During my journey through Europe I decided that I would also pay a brief visit to Greece. I wouldn’t go all the way to Athens, because transportation would be quite expensive. Instead, I hope to one day do a separate trip to Greece and explore more of the country. During…
The Monasteries of Bulgaria
12 – 21 June 2018 It was quite a challenge to find transportation from Constanta to Varna; a coastal city Bulgaria. Finally I found a bus that was able to take me there, even though it was a bit expensive. When I got to Varna I found a place where I could spend a few…
The Crumbling Paris of the East
7 – 12 June 2018 In the early Thursday morning I arrived in Bucharest, not far from the Triumphal Arch. If I wouldn’t know any better, I’d say that I had just arrived in Paris. Oh well, at least if you ignore the fact that there’s no huge roundabout surrounding this Arch and this one…
House Sitting in Moldova
3 – 6 June 2018 In the early Sunday morning I took the bus to Moldova. The border security took an hour, but that’s something I’m getting used to. From the bus I was watching the landscape. The nature was beautiful with hills and green plains. Here and there were some villages with several houses…
The Story of Ukraine (part 2)
24 May – 3 June 2018 On the early Sunday morning I arrived in Kyiv after a train ride of ten hours. It is not because of the distance that it took so long to get to Kyiv, since it’s only around 400 kilometers away from Lviv. But the trains are not exactly the latest…
The Story of Ukraine (part 1)
24 May – 3 June 2018 The day started very early on Thursday. At 4:30am my alarm rung and I had to prepare for the bus ride to Ukraine. First I would go to Uzhhorod, a Ukrainian city just past the border from Slovakia. The bus ride was around three hours, but it was the…
The Fox of Zamkovshého Cottage
21 – 24 May 2018 I arrived at the train station in Košice on a rainy Monday night. When I got out of the train I was greeted by Baška, a 20 year-old girl, who offered to host me. She and her parents don’t exactly live in Košice, but in a small village that is…
The Best of Buda and Pest (part 2)
6 – 21 May 2018 On Sunday Jonas and I went to visit the parliament building. If you go to Budapest, I definitely recommend visiting the parliament building! The entrance fee is only a few euros and the tour through the building is amazing. Not many buildings are as beautiful on the inside as they…
The Best of Buda and Pest (part 1)
6 – 21 May 2018 On a Monday night I arrived in Budapest. After getting off the bus, I got on the metro and the tram to get to my first host family in Budapest. They live 50 minutes outside the city center in a large house. My host was Ági, the mother of the…
Down the Danube
3 – 6 May 2018 After I left Vienna, I traveled east by bus alongside the river Danube (Donau) until I crossed the border with Slovakia. The capital, Bratislava, is the first mayor city on the Danube after Vienna, and it takes only 1.5 hour by bus. Vienna and Bratislava are the capitals that are…
Royal Vienna
1 – 3 May 2018 On Tuesday I arrived in Vienna by train. Here my friend Max was waiting for me at the station. Max and I know each other from Rotterdam, where he studied at Erasmus. Back then we would often meet in the city or go to another city in the Netherlands. But…
Bohemia and Moravia
24 April – 1 May 2018 After I left Prague and Central Bohemia behind me, I moved to the region of South Bohemia. The Bohemian region of the Czech Republic is beautiful and the landscape changes between green plains and dense forests. The river Vltava runs through the valley all the way to Prague and…
Prague in Gala
19 – 23 April 2018 After a bus ride of five and a half hours I finally arrived in Prague at Florenc Station at around 11 pm. Of course I had a certain image in mind when I thought of Prague, but I must admit that my first encounter with the city was quite different…
The Dwarves of Wroclaw
17 – 19 April 2021 On Tuesday I had to wake up early to get on the bus to Wroclaw. It took approximately three hours by bus to get there. Once I arrived in Wroclaw, I went straight to Sergi’s apartment to drop off my bag and get a bit of rest. After I felt…
Krakow: the City of Kings and Dragons
14 – 17 April 2018 When I arrived in Krakow I was a bit concerned about my host. Quite a while back he had approached me on Couchsurfing and offered me a place to stay, which I had accepted. But over the past few days it had become increasingly harder to contact him and he…
Waterless Warszawa
10 – 14 April 2018 I arrived in Poland around 8 pm, it had just gotten dark. A bus took me from the airport to a small old train station with high, heavy windows and large wooden doors. I walked across the cobblestone street towards the small train station. It was rather quiet, aside from…
The First Steps…
9 – 10 April 2018 Last Monday it was finally time for my trip to begin! Saying goodbye to friends and family wasn’t easy, but at least for me there’s the happy prospect of my trip. This time leaving home felt different. Normally I would go to the airport, so that would make me feel…
The Art of Travelling Light
6 April 2018 When going on a trip such as this one, it can be hard to determine what you should bring with you. What size backpack should I buy? How many pairs of clothing should I pack? Luckily I wasn’t the first to ask those questions and when I started searching for it on…
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