I’m traveling to Barcelona tomorrow from Oslo on a one-way ticket, and don’t have much planned besides staying a week or so in Spain. I recently moved out of my apartment in London and have been traveling around Europe for the better part of two months, seeing family and friends, and being on my own. Since I do freelance work, I don’t really how much to do most of the time, and, no longer renting nor being in a relationship, I don’t really have anywhere to be either. It’s a quite different life, being nomadic (or whatever you would call it), from being sedentary (or whatever you would call mostly being in one city, where you rent an apartment). Weirdly, I had never really seen myself or considered it a possibility that I would not be renting an apartment, and just traveling around like this. I’ve weirdly found it more satisfying and peaceful than stressful and tiring too. I suppose it perhaps fits better with my nature.

I’ve been looking at taking trains or buses from Barcelona and onwards. It’s weirdly cheap if you split your travels into 2-4 hours laps and order separate tickets, like $15-30. I was thinking of crossing the border to France, though some of the major towns like Marseille and Nice were somewhat expensive during August (I guess it’s summer vacation time for much of southern Europe), so perhaps I’ll go to some smaller places further inland instead – a vineyard perhaps? Anyways, I want to cross into Italy after that. Again, the major, or more popular cities, like Genoa and Portefino were more or less sold out and otherwise expensive, so I might pop up to Turin, which is larger, and then go to Lake Como, at last – I’ve been wanting to go there for quite sometime. I found a dirt cheap hostel in the actual town of Como, while many people stay in the other towns around the lake, so I’m happy about that. It looks really pretty there, and I’ve been wanting to try a more active trip somewhere, so I was thinking I would do some hikes around different parts of the lake.

From there on, I’m not sure. I was looking at crossing east to Verona, then head towards, perhaps, Croatia, and see the coast there (I’ve been wanting to see the coast down there for sometime to experience and explore a different coastal area of Europe than just Spain, France and Italy. I would be pretty close to Hungary then, and I found cheap and quick tickets from Zagreb to Budapest, so I might head there for some city life and clubbing. Then probably Prague, and perhaps westwards again into Germany, with Berlin being pretty close by, and then Hamburg (possibly just as a transit stop), and finally Copenhagen – I love CPH!

I guess it’s late August by then, so I would fly back to London and see relatives while they’re there, or perhaps drop by the north to see friends first, and take it from there.