http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Av1/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Av1 en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:22 +0000 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:22 +0000 Hello friendsAs you can see I am still here. As I am not currently traveling I thought an entry in a TRAVEL blog might be rejected by the website but I've had a request so I thought I'd risk it. Still kippping at Gran's if you don't know where teignmouth is google it Nice location right on the sea bit too cold to swim now though and in the middle of a little town full of fish and chips sho http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Devon/Teignmouth/blog-447274.html Hello friends.When last we spoke I was in the lovely town of Salzburg. Funny place if you were a local you would go crazy you can't go 10 minutes without some puffed up tourist breaking into song. Some better than others. Took a couple days off so to speak. Enjoyed a nice dinner and glass of wine by myself. I think the waiting staff was confused or thought I had been stood up because it too http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Devon/Newton-Abbot/blog-432183.html hello alljust arrived in salzburg think it has something to do with julie andrews because i keep seeing expensive sound of music tour offers. To get me in the mood i listened to do re mi on the train on repeat. Was sad to leave budapest maybe the most fascinating city I have visited thus far complete with turkish baths which I unfortunately arrived at too late to take a dip castles bridges http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-429474.html Thought it was time I gave a simple lesson to all those US bound.How to speak german1. Add en to the end of every word. dimitris was right fishe.g. to walk laufen food essen downstairs unten every other word blanken2. do not attempt to pick up words from 4 and 6 year old children they are not confirming words for you when you point and they nod they are just exci http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Basel/blog-428572.html So hello friends it has been too long. Apologies about any z or y mix ups although not as bad as french keyboards swiss keyboards leave something to be desired. So gosh what has happened Thought I would leave you in suspense for a while.. guess its been almost two weeks. lets make a list.1. said bye to ben and hopped on a ferry to france enjoyed a delicious pasty on the way was watched the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Basel/blog-427676.html It's been a while folks. Much has happened. I am sad to say that Laura has returned to her country and I remain in England applying to med school and watching the rain drip down the office windows. Laura last wrote in Prague let's see what I can do.1. Rode bikes around Prague. until we came to a large hill. lined with restaurants. Czech food doughy and delicious. Was excited that Laura would http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Surrey/Epsom/blog-424420.html Hello everyoneThis is going to be a quick update because we dont have much internet time here at our awesome hostel in prague its an elementary school converted into a hostel don't forget to clean up your beer kidsWe'll fill in the rest later sorrywe've been on alot of ferrys trains trams cars buses and everything inbetween lately. santorini paros and antiparos were amazing Greek food http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-421199.html 915949953945 963945962 966953955959962that says hello friendsThe thing is that greek has a different alphabet. It took me a few days to be able to kind of sound out words from the ridiculous letters. By then you have forgotten it is also a different language and you are confused as to why the word you have successfully deciphered means nothing to you. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-418438.html Ciao again. It is very late at night here so if I skip anything important which I am sure I will I am sorry. It might be easier to update you all in a few highlights.1. Laura and I are getting worse at english every day. staying with and talking with non native english speakers causing a certain simplification of our sentences and an over pronunciation of hard words. Instead of do you wanna http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-416978.html Ciao everyone Yesterday we arrived in Florence the city of renaissance. Checked into the appropriately named emerald palace. Watched the end of the sunset from across the river over the city verrry nice. Under a good friends specific instructions we searched the city for the gato e la volpe apparently the best italian restaurant in the city and enjoyed tortellini ravioli and a bottle o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-415801.html Greetings faithful travel blog readers I hope everyone is doing well in what Ive heard is the rainy season in the northeast US. Up front aplogies for no punctuation these crazy italian keyboards have a where an apostrophe should be and a where the should be. At least the letters arent all mixed up like in France. So anyway since our last entry we spent a lovely evening sitting on the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-415181.html Hello everyoneSo we've been in Nice for a night and we like it Our friends from school Connor and Caroline were here too and we tried unsuccesfully to find them the first night. In the morning we found them in the train station They had a later train that day so we got to spend the day on the beach together enjoying the beautiful water and weather. Tomorrow we're heading out in the morning http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Nice/blog-414503.html Hello all we just arrived in Barcelona after overnighting by train from Granada.The city was great. We took a free walking tour of the old region of the city called the albayzin. Its the region where the moors lived before being completely pushed out of spain pretty cool We also visited the palacios Nazries inside of Alhambra. It was very beautiful inside and you can see all of the different http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-413627.html Ah we seem to be back in madrid just cant keep away I suppose. Or there is just one train leaving lisbon ever. Interesting observation from laura and I we have been away 5 nights and slept in beds for two of them. We seem to be getting good at overnight trains very comfortable and quiet. Also we are fluent in portugese and now have to switch back to spanish. Today we successfully asked w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Madrid/blog-413065.html Hello everyone Im writing this entry as were checking out of our hostel in lisbon. we arrived here yesterday night on the overnight train from madrid and hit the ground running. we checked into our hostel and explored the area for the whole day. the best sight was from the top of the castle where you could see some pretty awesome views of the whole city. we had some pretty traditional portu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tagus-Valley/Lisbon/blog-412789.html Hello again everyoneSo last night Av and I walked about Madrid some more with a few other people staying at our hostel. Today the big plan is to do a free walking tour of Madrid then head to a tapas experience where they take you to four different tapas bars and try a different dish at each one We booked an overnight train to Lisbon leaving at 10pm this evening. We will probably stay there http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Madrid/blog-412107.html So.... laura and avalon checked themselves through multiple customs and stayed awake their entire red eye flight preparing themselves for the trip through europe by watching Taken and Marley Me. Tried to sleep on the second flight but failed. Now it is about 6am normal time but its lunchtime for spanish people so obviously we must fight the urge to sleep to refuel. Checked into our first hos http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Madrid/blog-411819.html Just seeing if this travel blog works or if it is broken. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Hampshire/blog-410263.html Hello and welcome to Fish and Av's official travel blog page. The others are fakes. We invite you to follow us on our journey from NH to the rest of the world. I don't know how this page works yet but if you can feel free to comment No foul language please parents and small children may be reading this. If we don't write for a month or more we probably either died or got back and stopped wri http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-Hampshire/blog-409569.html