Though brief, our stay in Italy was extremely satisfying. We literally breezed through it, but we went slow enough to experience the smallest bit of it. I think I remember saying something about heading to Pisa then Cinque Terre last time I wrote, and that is what we did, only there we no places for us to stay so we went from Rome to Pisa, stayed there for a few hours, went back to Rome and the next morning went to Cinque Terre.
I found Pisa to be, sadly, a bit over-rated. It took us four hours by train to get there and four hours back and really literally all there was to see there was the leaning tower. We went, took our few pictures, had some pizza and left. It was good to say I´ve seen it though. It´s so much smaller than I thought it would be, but still really amazing.
So we woke up in Rome and headed in the direction of Cinque Terre, I can´t realy remember how long it took to get there, maybe sixish hours? But we got there and found our quiet hostel in the middle of a small village named Barrisa. A stark contrast to our last hostel in Rome which was filled with loud funny Aussies and a New Zealander. (Our room was super super tiny in Rome) Anyway, this place was big and we saw maybe two other people while staying there. But again our stay was shortlived. The same day we got there we caught a bus into Cinque terre and started walking. I don´t know if you´re aware, but Cinque Terre is 5 small villages perched on cliffs right on the water with about 3-5km between them. It was beautiful even with the torential rain. It poured. We bought some of those really tacky plastic ponchos that only tourists wear. They were awesome, and bright yellow to boot. Well, we started walking from the first town and found out we had to pay 5 euros to walk. Crazy. Well we paid and walked 3 of the 5 villages because it was getting dark and we were very cold and very hungry. That evening we had more pizza in the first village and eventually caught the bus back to Barrisa. The next day we were headed for Nice.
We took the train first to Genova where we had a half an hour lay-over because of a late train. We met a couple of canadian guys, one named Evan and one named Cedric. We all recognized eachother by our Mec bags. They were both from Vancouver. Cedric was headed to the same hostel as us and we ended up hanging out with him a lot in Nice. Nice was easily one of my very favorite cities, if not my most favorite. It was so amazing. It was tropical, but not..I can´t explain the beauty. It had an incredible beach which was ripe for the swimming and we had a great time finding random salad ingredients at the massive local market. It was an amazing place.
From Nice we went to Barcelona which is where I am now. I´m listening to the pouring rain outside and I am reminded of home. So nice. We were so tired today, we really didn´t see much of Barcelona. Too much travelling. This is what happened on our way to Barcelona. We got a train at about 11:00am yesterday and thought we would be in Barcelona at 10:00pm like the trains were supposed to be. This was not the case. We went from Nice to Marseille, got there fine but found out that our train was an hour late. That was really bad because it meant we would miss our connection in Montpellier, which we did. So by the time we got to Montpellier, our train to Barcelona had left. Gerrrr. So we found a whole bunch of other travellers trying to ge there and the clock was ticking. Luckily the rail company was pretty good and gave us all first class tickets to Perpignan in the south of France. So we all get there and they tell us there would be a bus to Barcelona that would take about 2 hours. We were a little worried at this time because it was nearing 10:00pm and we weren´t sure at all how to get to our hostel or where the bus would stop, but we decided we had no other choice. We got on the bus with our free box of food the rail company gave us and left for Barcelona. Approximately 3 hours later we we dropped off at a random square in the middle of Barcelona. Sweeeet. We were going to take a taxi, but the driver was really nice and told us we could walk there because it was only a few blocks away. What are the chances! We got into our hostel at 1:30am and they were nice enough to have stayed up for us even though they technically closed reception at 10:00pm. So we got here. We made it..craaaazy. So after that teensy bit of a stressful day, Liz and I have done absolutely nothing. Right now Liz is watching a movie and we both had hot chocolate and pastries. Mmm. Its a goooood feeling.
Well, tomarrow we leave for Malaga in the south of Spain and will make our way to Gibraltar, which is supposed to be really pretty. I don´t doubt it, everywhere is pretty. Wheew. Well hope it isn´t pouring buckets there like it is here. But then again I do fancy a bit of rain here and there.
Talk to you soonish, bye!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Paradise.
.......Shhh...sh...sh......do you hear that? The gentle ebb and flow of the Aegean Sea? White noise and sea bird's calls under a warm sun. Rolling mountains of soft, cool, aquamarine saltiness finding eventual homes on the black and red sand beaches. The waves look simular to pianists fingers, plunking along the crest of the waves. Beautiful.
How does one go about describing paradise? I'm finding it about as hard as containing water in a paper bag. Impossible. Greece was a paradise in itself. Specifically, Santorini, which is where we spent the majority of our time.
Now it's been a while since I last wrote, I do believe I left you with the tale of our journey to Athens? Yes? Well, I'll now describe the, journey too and adventure in, Santorini. A small speck of an island in a vast sea.
We left our hostel in Athens at 5:30 in the morning to catch a metro to the port where we would take a 8 hour ferry ride to Santorini (Thira). We got on the boat at 7:30am and found a sìt in the busy vessel. We were sitting for a while when a girl we had seen on the metro in the morning asked if she could sit with us. Being the friendly beings that we are, we let her take a seat. We got talking and found out her name was Judith and she was from Quebec. She was on a vacation from her english schooling in London, the weather was getting to her there, so she was headed to Santorini for some sun. We hung out with her the entire time, we even watched a movie on one of the portable DVD players they have for rent on the ferries. (Judith used her charm and somehow got it for free, bonus.) So we watched Hook. (I LOVE that movie by the by.) Anyhoo, needless to say we all became fast friends. She didn't have a place to stay in Santorini yet, so she decided to come with us to ours and find a room there.
We got to the Port in Santorini, totally unaccustomed to the heat. It was around 28 degrees, so jeans and a tee-shirt, with large bags to lug around were not the most comfortable things. We were told there was a green bus that would take us from the port to Fira, the capital city and location of our hostel. So we started looking, but couldn't find the bus. In our frustraion after almost walking up the massive switchback road to the top of the cliff, we decided to ask someone where the bus was. When we asked a man where to catch it, he said there we no more, it had already left. Dang. So we decided our only option was share a cab between the 3 of us. As we were looking for a phone, we walked past one of the men holding signs for various hostels. And lookey there I found one with 'Stavos Villas' which was conveniantly our booked hostel. Yesss..so we got a ride on the free shuttle right to the hostel. Nice. So that night we took a nice walk down to the beach, then finished it off with a nice bit of souvlaki at a traditional restaurant.
The next day we went out in search of a place to rent scooters. We got to the place the guy who drove our shuttle suggested only to find that you had to have a motorcycle license. That was terribly dissapointing to us so, now with our plans for the day, seemingly shot we went into Fira, to look around. While there we decided to ask a place about renting ATVs and discovered that you just needed a regular license. So we got two. One with two people on, one with a single rider. Best idea of our lives. We rode all over the island on those, seriously, tip to tip and everywhere in between. We went up a mountain to see an ancient civilization, we had lunch on a Kamari beach, we scoped out the red beach and Parissa beach, we went to see the world famous sunset in Oia (ee-ah) and back. That was a great day. We finished it off with some more souvlaki...me likes me souvlaki.
The next day we went to Parissa beach for the entire day. Not much to say there, apart from I got a teensy bit burned. I didn't care. Small price to pay, for the glorious feelings the rays had upon my pasty white skin. We got ice cream and relaxed the entire day and then ate out yet again. I got greek salad, and Judith and Liz got Calamari.
The third and final day, me and Liz spent without Judith because she went scuba diving, but we would see her again on the ferry. We spent another wonderful day at the beach, but this time we went to the famous red beach. Absolutley amazing. It was so warm on the sand and the water was so refreshing and soooooo clear. I would just float on my stomach and look at the ocean floor which was probably 15 feet away. So amazing. I remember literally thinking, 'I'm really in paradise' So good. Well, we left in the late afternoon to go into Fira and buy some things and we then had to grab our bags and head to the port for our ferry that left at 8:30pm and got into Athens at 5:30 am. We met Judith at the ferry terminal and spent the ferry ride with her and agreed we would see her again when we go to London. We said our goodbyes in the morning where we went our separate ways. Her, back to London, us, back to Patras to catch our 15 hour ferry to Bari, Italy.
We eventually made it to the ferry terminal and got into Bari at 9:00am and we headed to Naples. The trains are always late so we got there a bit later than intended, but made it none the less. We really didn't stay long. Our experience of Naples consisted of being lost and getting a slice of pizza. Then we went bed to awake in the morning to catch the first train to Rome. And now we're here.
It's evening in Rome and we went to the Colluseum and the Vatican city. So amazing. I'm pretty sure my eyes grew because I had to take in a lot. The Sistine chapel amazed me. I can't say much more. All of it is so great. Well, tomarrow, we're not sure what we're doing, but we have to keep moving because our eurail passes are running out. We're more than likely stopping in Pisa on our way to Cinque Terre. Wheeeew we are really travelling. Well, I must leave you at that. Hope you enjoyed my incecent ramblings about an amazing place on this earth. Thanks for stopping in!!
How does one go about describing paradise? I'm finding it about as hard as containing water in a paper bag. Impossible. Greece was a paradise in itself. Specifically, Santorini, which is where we spent the majority of our time.
Now it's been a while since I last wrote, I do believe I left you with the tale of our journey to Athens? Yes? Well, I'll now describe the, journey too and adventure in, Santorini. A small speck of an island in a vast sea.
We left our hostel in Athens at 5:30 in the morning to catch a metro to the port where we would take a 8 hour ferry ride to Santorini (Thira). We got on the boat at 7:30am and found a sìt in the busy vessel. We were sitting for a while when a girl we had seen on the metro in the morning asked if she could sit with us. Being the friendly beings that we are, we let her take a seat. We got talking and found out her name was Judith and she was from Quebec. She was on a vacation from her english schooling in London, the weather was getting to her there, so she was headed to Santorini for some sun. We hung out with her the entire time, we even watched a movie on one of the portable DVD players they have for rent on the ferries. (Judith used her charm and somehow got it for free, bonus.) So we watched Hook. (I LOVE that movie by the by.) Anyhoo, needless to say we all became fast friends. She didn't have a place to stay in Santorini yet, so she decided to come with us to ours and find a room there.
We got to the Port in Santorini, totally unaccustomed to the heat. It was around 28 degrees, so jeans and a tee-shirt, with large bags to lug around were not the most comfortable things. We were told there was a green bus that would take us from the port to Fira, the capital city and location of our hostel. So we started looking, but couldn't find the bus. In our frustraion after almost walking up the massive switchback road to the top of the cliff, we decided to ask someone where the bus was. When we asked a man where to catch it, he said there we no more, it had already left. Dang. So we decided our only option was share a cab between the 3 of us. As we were looking for a phone, we walked past one of the men holding signs for various hostels. And lookey there I found one with 'Stavos Villas' which was conveniantly our booked hostel. Yesss..so we got a ride on the free shuttle right to the hostel. Nice. So that night we took a nice walk down to the beach, then finished it off with a nice bit of souvlaki at a traditional restaurant.
The next day we went out in search of a place to rent scooters. We got to the place the guy who drove our shuttle suggested only to find that you had to have a motorcycle license. That was terribly dissapointing to us so, now with our plans for the day, seemingly shot we went into Fira, to look around. While there we decided to ask a place about renting ATVs and discovered that you just needed a regular license. So we got two. One with two people on, one with a single rider. Best idea of our lives. We rode all over the island on those, seriously, tip to tip and everywhere in between. We went up a mountain to see an ancient civilization, we had lunch on a Kamari beach, we scoped out the red beach and Parissa beach, we went to see the world famous sunset in Oia (ee-ah) and back. That was a great day. We finished it off with some more souvlaki...me likes me souvlaki.
The next day we went to Parissa beach for the entire day. Not much to say there, apart from I got a teensy bit burned. I didn't care. Small price to pay, for the glorious feelings the rays had upon my pasty white skin. We got ice cream and relaxed the entire day and then ate out yet again. I got greek salad, and Judith and Liz got Calamari.
The third and final day, me and Liz spent without Judith because she went scuba diving, but we would see her again on the ferry. We spent another wonderful day at the beach, but this time we went to the famous red beach. Absolutley amazing. It was so warm on the sand and the water was so refreshing and soooooo clear. I would just float on my stomach and look at the ocean floor which was probably 15 feet away. So amazing. I remember literally thinking, 'I'm really in paradise' So good. Well, we left in the late afternoon to go into Fira and buy some things and we then had to grab our bags and head to the port for our ferry that left at 8:30pm and got into Athens at 5:30 am. We met Judith at the ferry terminal and spent the ferry ride with her and agreed we would see her again when we go to London. We said our goodbyes in the morning where we went our separate ways. Her, back to London, us, back to Patras to catch our 15 hour ferry to Bari, Italy.
We eventually made it to the ferry terminal and got into Bari at 9:00am and we headed to Naples. The trains are always late so we got there a bit later than intended, but made it none the less. We really didn't stay long. Our experience of Naples consisted of being lost and getting a slice of pizza. Then we went bed to awake in the morning to catch the first train to Rome. And now we're here.
It's evening in Rome and we went to the Colluseum and the Vatican city. So amazing. I'm pretty sure my eyes grew because I had to take in a lot. The Sistine chapel amazed me. I can't say much more. All of it is so great. Well, tomarrow, we're not sure what we're doing, but we have to keep moving because our eurail passes are running out. We're more than likely stopping in Pisa on our way to Cinque Terre. Wheeeew we are really travelling. Well, I must leave you at that. Hope you enjoyed my incecent ramblings about an amazing place on this earth. Thanks for stopping in!!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Swiss please.
Switzerland. The land of the Swiss..peoples. What can I say, it's a gloriously majestic place.
So amazing that it's about the same area as Vancouver Island but has a population of about 5 million people. Crazy. Throw in all them mighty mountains, amazing wiews, spectacularily clear, blue water and you've got yourself quite a place. We stayed with an extremely nice girl named Martina who was hosted by one of my school friends a couple of years ago. She literally gave us run of the place. She gave us a key and was away for the weekend, which kinda sucked because it would have been nice to hang out with her, but never the less, we had a great time. On Saturday me and Liz celebrated Thanksgiving. We bought the tiniest chicken ever and cooked it up with some potatoes corn and carrots. We also had some apple pie for dessert, it was fantastic.
We used Martina's house kind of as home base for Switzerland. She lived just north of Basel and seeing as Switzerland is so small, we saw a fair bit of it in the 4 or 5 days we were there.
The first day there we went to a little touristy town called Interlaken. It was really beautiful. The water in the river was aquamarine blue and ice cold to the touch. So pretty. We didn't go up the little trolly up the mountain because it was almost 20 euros..too much for us. So we just walked around and looked at a whoooole lot of touristy, over priced trinkets.
The next day we went to Bern. I was feeling a bit under the weather so we took it easy and just walked around town, and saw a tragic sight. You see, each city has an animal, a mascot if you will, and Bern's animal is a bear. They had a literal pit with a sad looking bear in it..all he had were some concrete blocks with little trees growing out of them and a rectangular pool in the middle..poor little bear..but he was cute.
Next day was our thanksgiving feast of sorts, half that day was spent in Basel roaming the streets, then of course home to cook.
The next, and final, day of our journey was our most toursty type day in Switzerland, we went to see the Matterhorn. Wow. It was really cool. We actually technically didn't get that close because we, again, are cheap scates. We went to Zermatt and saw the Matterhorn from a distance and walked towards it for a while..it was really expensive to go up on a cable car..something like 100 euros..ridiculous. So no. We used the zoom function on our cameras to make it look like we were close..oh well. I still loved it.
The next day we bagan our crazy 2 day travel to Greece. Woke up at 4:45am. Caught a train to Milan, it was 45 minutes late, which screwed up our plans to catch the correct train to get to the ferry on time for Greece. Got on a train to Ancona where the ferry port is. Got kicked off that train in Bologne for not having a reservation. Got a train fron Bologne to Ancona. Found a random Hostel. Stayed the night. Hopped on our 22 hour long ferry ride to Greece. Stayed in extreme comfort throught the ferry ride. Arrived the next morning in Patras Greece. Took some random trains, and now finally after 2 days of travel are here in Greece only to leave for Santorini tomarrow. I can't wait!! It's teriffically warm here and I'm so excited to swim in the Ocean of a Greek island. Sounds like paradise to me.
Well, best be off! Wishing everyone good times in good ol' Vico and surrounding areas.
So amazing that it's about the same area as Vancouver Island but has a population of about 5 million people. Crazy. Throw in all them mighty mountains, amazing wiews, spectacularily clear, blue water and you've got yourself quite a place. We stayed with an extremely nice girl named Martina who was hosted by one of my school friends a couple of years ago. She literally gave us run of the place. She gave us a key and was away for the weekend, which kinda sucked because it would have been nice to hang out with her, but never the less, we had a great time. On Saturday me and Liz celebrated Thanksgiving. We bought the tiniest chicken ever and cooked it up with some potatoes corn and carrots. We also had some apple pie for dessert, it was fantastic.
We used Martina's house kind of as home base for Switzerland. She lived just north of Basel and seeing as Switzerland is so small, we saw a fair bit of it in the 4 or 5 days we were there.
The first day there we went to a little touristy town called Interlaken. It was really beautiful. The water in the river was aquamarine blue and ice cold to the touch. So pretty. We didn't go up the little trolly up the mountain because it was almost 20 euros..too much for us. So we just walked around and looked at a whoooole lot of touristy, over priced trinkets.
The next day we went to Bern. I was feeling a bit under the weather so we took it easy and just walked around town, and saw a tragic sight. You see, each city has an animal, a mascot if you will, and Bern's animal is a bear. They had a literal pit with a sad looking bear in it..all he had were some concrete blocks with little trees growing out of them and a rectangular pool in the middle..poor little bear..but he was cute.
Next day was our thanksgiving feast of sorts, half that day was spent in Basel roaming the streets, then of course home to cook.
The next, and final, day of our journey was our most toursty type day in Switzerland, we went to see the Matterhorn. Wow. It was really cool. We actually technically didn't get that close because we, again, are cheap scates. We went to Zermatt and saw the Matterhorn from a distance and walked towards it for a while..it was really expensive to go up on a cable car..something like 100 euros..ridiculous. So no. We used the zoom function on our cameras to make it look like we were close..oh well. I still loved it.
The next day we bagan our crazy 2 day travel to Greece. Woke up at 4:45am. Caught a train to Milan, it was 45 minutes late, which screwed up our plans to catch the correct train to get to the ferry on time for Greece. Got on a train to Ancona where the ferry port is. Got kicked off that train in Bologne for not having a reservation. Got a train fron Bologne to Ancona. Found a random Hostel. Stayed the night. Hopped on our 22 hour long ferry ride to Greece. Stayed in extreme comfort throught the ferry ride. Arrived the next morning in Patras Greece. Took some random trains, and now finally after 2 days of travel are here in Greece only to leave for Santorini tomarrow. I can't wait!! It's teriffically warm here and I'm so excited to swim in the Ocean of a Greek island. Sounds like paradise to me.
Well, best be off! Wishing everyone good times in good ol' Vico and surrounding areas.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The Sound of Salzburg.
You know how the PC monitor has default wallpapers that you can browse through and use at your leisure? You know the one with that field with a hill and clouds? The one many people choose to place on their desktop because it makes them dream of what`s on the other side of that grassy knoll?
Yeah, that`s Salzburg well, more specifically, that`s the train ride into Salzburg. Once there you`re surrounded by towering mountains and autumn trees with colourful leaves floating to the ground at every angle. An artist`s dream. Sigh. So nice.
Our stay was bettered further by our first couch surfing experience. We stayed with a wonderful girl named Sandra who had the most amaying flat and personality to boot. She was so friendly and such a good host, we literally felt right at home. So very nice. A lot of our time was spent hanging out with our host and the two other couch surfers, Youssef from France, and Flora from Mexico. They were also super cool.
On our second night there Sandra, Liz and I made schnitzel and let me tell you, it was SO good. Now I know how to make delicious home made schnitzel. Yessss. Skillz. We had great fun discovering Salzburg and though it was the sight of the movie `The Sound of Music` we didn`t do any of the tourist rip-off tours that they offer, but we realized afterwards that we went near some of the spots they filmed at. It was just a really pretty place to get totally lost in. We took some really pretty walks around some of the forested hills near the town. On our first night Sandra and some friends took us up to the top of a mountain where we watched paragliders float infront of a picturesque sunset, with mountains galore. My eyes will never forget it. I probably won`t be forgetting Salzburg very soon. The people I`ve met, the places I`ve seen. Everything makes me so very happy to be alive!
Well, now onto Switzerland!
Yeah, that`s Salzburg well, more specifically, that`s the train ride into Salzburg. Once there you`re surrounded by towering mountains and autumn trees with colourful leaves floating to the ground at every angle. An artist`s dream. Sigh. So nice.
Our stay was bettered further by our first couch surfing experience. We stayed with a wonderful girl named Sandra who had the most amaying flat and personality to boot. She was so friendly and such a good host, we literally felt right at home. So very nice. A lot of our time was spent hanging out with our host and the two other couch surfers, Youssef from France, and Flora from Mexico. They were also super cool.
On our second night there Sandra, Liz and I made schnitzel and let me tell you, it was SO good. Now I know how to make delicious home made schnitzel. Yessss. Skillz. We had great fun discovering Salzburg and though it was the sight of the movie `The Sound of Music` we didn`t do any of the tourist rip-off tours that they offer, but we realized afterwards that we went near some of the spots they filmed at. It was just a really pretty place to get totally lost in. We took some really pretty walks around some of the forested hills near the town. On our first night Sandra and some friends took us up to the top of a mountain where we watched paragliders float infront of a picturesque sunset, with mountains galore. My eyes will never forget it. I probably won`t be forgetting Salzburg very soon. The people I`ve met, the places I`ve seen. Everything makes me so very happy to be alive!
Well, now onto Switzerland!
Monday, October 6, 2008
When in Wien.
Oh Vienna, how wonderful art thou? Really wonderful.
So here I am writing from Salzburg, trying to remember Vienna. It's hard because when you hop from city to city as much as we do some of the millions upon millions of wonderous things get muddled together. But I will try my best to recolect strong points found in Vienna.
Well for starters it wasn't at all what I was expecting. When I thought of Vienna before I thought of a small quaint town with little happening apart from home cooking and small folk bustling about doing errands of some sort. I sure am crazy because Vienna is so busy and full of people and life! It was crazy full of shops and Mozart everything everywhere and the opera along with so much else! I quickly found this beautiful city to boast some of the most gorgous streets yet. It's hard to think about it all. Wow. We went to an opera and saw 'Cappricio' a play about..well..I don't actually know. You see from our 3€ standing seats at the top right corner of the stage we could only see half the stage and it really didn't help that they were singing in german..naturally. So I eventually sat againsta wall and closed my eyes and imagined that I understood. That was good enough for me. It was really quite nice. Whilst in Vienna I also had my first taste of schnitzel. So delicious, yet so arterie clogging. I'll have a nice bit of deep-fried pork any day. I also tried my first bratwurst. A giant whitish sort of sausage. It also tasted very good, but I could feel my heart working harder to pump my blood properly. Nummeh. Lemme see..whet else. Oh! Well, coincidence that we met two girls from good ol' courtney B.C. and what do you know but they knew the Murray's and one of them was friends with Boot and they knew who Dot was and were also friends with Chip. Craaazy. We talked with them a lot, it was really good. Well my brain is playing tricks on me and not allowing me to think of any more intruiging stories, so I leave you with a small taste of glorious Vienna, Austria in your mouth. MMM.
So here I am writing from Salzburg, trying to remember Vienna. It's hard because when you hop from city to city as much as we do some of the millions upon millions of wonderous things get muddled together. But I will try my best to recolect strong points found in Vienna.
Well for starters it wasn't at all what I was expecting. When I thought of Vienna before I thought of a small quaint town with little happening apart from home cooking and small folk bustling about doing errands of some sort. I sure am crazy because Vienna is so busy and full of people and life! It was crazy full of shops and Mozart everything everywhere and the opera along with so much else! I quickly found this beautiful city to boast some of the most gorgous streets yet. It's hard to think about it all. Wow. We went to an opera and saw 'Cappricio' a play about..well..I don't actually know. You see from our 3€ standing seats at the top right corner of the stage we could only see half the stage and it really didn't help that they were singing in german..naturally. So I eventually sat againsta wall and closed my eyes and imagined that I understood. That was good enough for me. It was really quite nice. Whilst in Vienna I also had my first taste of schnitzel. So delicious, yet so arterie clogging. I'll have a nice bit of deep-fried pork any day. I also tried my first bratwurst. A giant whitish sort of sausage. It also tasted very good, but I could feel my heart working harder to pump my blood properly. Nummeh. Lemme see..whet else. Oh! Well, coincidence that we met two girls from good ol' courtney B.C. and what do you know but they knew the Murray's and one of them was friends with Boot and they knew who Dot was and were also friends with Chip. Craaazy. We talked with them a lot, it was really good. Well my brain is playing tricks on me and not allowing me to think of any more intruiging stories, so I leave you with a small taste of glorious Vienna, Austria in your mouth. MMM.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Praha. Oh yeeeeah.
Prauge was indescribable. That's just it, I can't even begin to describe the beauty of that city!
We've just arrived in Vienna, Austria and looking back, there were a lot of good things about Prague. Not only was it a gorgeous city, but we also met some new friends along the way. We first met a guy named Luc, he was from Montreal and hung out with him a lot. I'm really glad we did he was a sweet guy with a great sense of humour. We also met a girl from Brazil named Theresea. She was really friendly and was good to make conversation with. Oh! And whilst in Prague I also descovered I have a new talent! I can barter like it's nobody's buisness! We found this random HUGE market by our hostel and turns out I'm the cheapest person ever, but those people really can't lose a sale so they will REALLY drop their prices if you act juuust right. I got a girl to drop an "Adidas" (quotations because it isn't actually adidas..it just says it is.) from 1800 czk to 400czk! (Czk stands for czech crowns there's about 100czk in a euro.) Haha, sucker!...I mean...she was nice. Anyway, more on Prague. It was really beautiful and everyday it seemed a little different with the changing of the autumn leaves..I miss it already. But onto other amazing sights in Austria and beyond!
Bye for now!
We've just arrived in Vienna, Austria and looking back, there were a lot of good things about Prague. Not only was it a gorgeous city, but we also met some new friends along the way. We first met a guy named Luc, he was from Montreal and hung out with him a lot. I'm really glad we did he was a sweet guy with a great sense of humour. We also met a girl from Brazil named Theresea. She was really friendly and was good to make conversation with. Oh! And whilst in Prague I also descovered I have a new talent! I can barter like it's nobody's buisness! We found this random HUGE market by our hostel and turns out I'm the cheapest person ever, but those people really can't lose a sale so they will REALLY drop their prices if you act juuust right. I got a girl to drop an "Adidas" (quotations because it isn't actually adidas..it just says it is.) from 1800 czk to 400czk! (Czk stands for czech crowns there's about 100czk in a euro.) Haha, sucker!...I mean...she was nice. Anyway, more on Prague. It was really beautiful and everyday it seemed a little different with the changing of the autumn leaves..I miss it already. But onto other amazing sights in Austria and beyond!
Bye for now!
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