DiscoverEU InterRail Experience (Part 2)

THIRD STOP: Zagreb, Croatia (17/10/2018-20/10/2018)

Wednesday night, after coming back from Bled lake and saying bye to my Slovenian host, I took a train to Zagreb, where I would meet my new, Spanish host.

I took that first night easily. I stayed at home with my host and a friend of his watching TV, playing PS4 and eating some of the jamón serrano I had brought him (he really missed it ;) ).

The following day we both went to the main square, where I'd join the group of people I'd later on did a guided visit through the city with.

St Mark's Church, Zagreb

It is very helpful to do these kind of tours and visits the first day since they help you a lot to get to know some places, where to go and were not to go, and also to understand better the story behind the buildings and monuments you are looking at.
As a European capital, Zagreb is quite small and a I'd say that a day is enough to visit it, two if you want.

Something exciting about my stay in Zagreb is that I got to experience a bit what the nightlife there is like. So the second night I went out with my host and the same friend from the night before to a couple of really cool pubs where we chatted, had a couple of drinks and a good time.

Dolac Market, Zagreb

On my second day in Croatia I decided to take a bus and go to the Plitvice Lakes, 2 hours far from Zagreb. All I have to say about that place is that it's beautiful. Green forests reflected over the crystalline waters of the lakes, really nice trails with a view over them or right by their shore.

Like lake Bled, it was breathtaking, and i was lucky to go on such a sunny, nice day. If you're planning a trip to the Balkans, the Plitvice lakes and lake Bled are a must.

Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes

FOURTH STOP: Appenzell & St Gallen, Switzerland (27/10/2018)

Once my holidays were over, I still had two travel days left and on weekend before the utility of pass finished, so the week after I came back I went to the places in Switzerland that are the furthest from Sion.
On Saturday I went to Appenzell, a little town in North-Eastern Switzerland, where a quite well-known beer is from, the Appenzeller. I'm not a big beer lover, but that one is all right. When it comes to the town, it's very little and easy to visit too, so when I finished wandering around I took a train to St Gallen, the closest big city to Appenzell, and visited it in the afternoon-evening.

This is an example of the kind of decorations you could see on the building's walls around St Gallen.

FIFTH STOP: Schaffhausen, Switzerland (28/10/2018)

Rhine falls with the Laufen Castle on the back

Even though I got home a bit late on Saturday, I couldn't allow myself to not use a travel day of my InterRail pass, so I made the effort and got up early on Sunday morning.
This time, the SBB train took me to Schaffhausen, on the opposite side of the country, in the border between Switzerland and Germany.

What is special about the Rhine waterfalls, which are beautiful, are the different views of them are from the village, from the castle or from a tour boat.

The Rhine waterfalls with the town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall on the background

Fun fact: The river acts as a natural border between the Canton of Schaffhausen and the Canton of Zurich, so if you've been on both shores, you've been on both cantons.

Rhine falls with the Laufen Castle on the back

SPECIAL THANKS

To conclude this chapter of my travels, I'd like to thank the Discover EU organization and the European Commission for helping this project financially.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH to everyone who made this possible, the EU, my Couchsurfing hosts, and my friend Maria and her family for hosting me.

P.S.: If you see any grammar mistake or misspelling let me know in the comments please ;)