Welcome to Cairo, where are you from?!? The City Cairo - It took me a while to tune into the ryhtem of Cairo, and at first, it was somewhat daunting...but after figuring out the inner workings of the city, I'd recommend a visit to the Egypt's capital to anybody looking for something a little different. I'm not talking about the 5 star resorts along the coast, I am talking about real, downtown, dirty Cairo. Let me try to paint a picture for you. A sprawling metropolis divided by the wide Nile river, which is at the economic heart of the city. [View Full Entry]

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I'd like to start this Blog entry off by thanking one Mr. Ryan Lee. A co-worker of mine at Aecon suggested many months back to try out a Vipassana course. At the time, I didn't really know what it was, other then it had something to do with meditation and buddhism. I found a 10 day course running from Dec 2 to 13 in India, which fit my travel schedule perfectly so I registered my name....not sure whether or not I would actually do it. Well, I did actually take the course and am happy I did. If you generally don't [View Full Entry]

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(Rome - a life time isn't enough) I am going to have to be quick with this one, or I'll miss my flight. I've learnt to take advantage of opportunities as they arise, and free wireless at an airport cafe is one of those opportunities. So Rome. First impressions: Sunny, warm weather and palm tree's - nice. People wern't overly friendly, although understandble because I think there are more tourists in this city then there are residents. The Mafia is defiantly still around and clearly doing well driving around in fancy cars, italian suits and sunglasses. I can't remember exact figure, [View Full Entry]

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Three weeks of exploring cities by day, and drinking/partying all night can really star to wear on you. Luckily, my most recent stop was to Innsbruck, Austria - a beautiful city of 100,000 people located in a valley, surrounded by the peaks of the Alps. I arrived on Saturday night at 11:00. So, even though my main reason for being in Innbruck was to get away from the city, see some nature and recharge my batteries, I decided it would be a waste to not check out the night life of a new place on the best night of the week. [View Full Entry]

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Headed to the Alps I'm writing from a train headed from Vienna to Innsbruck in Austria and will post this when I have an internet connection next. Innsbruck was the location of the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics and is located right in the heart of the Alps. After about three weeks of exploring and partying in some of Europes largest and most beautiful cities, I felt that a cleansing trip to the alps was in order. I'm hoping to do some hiking while I am there depending on the weather. Since I last wrote I have spent another day in [View Full Entry]

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I've posted a few more pictures that I took on my last night in Berlin... And now they are actually there. These pictures I took the night after realizing that all of my Berlin/Copenhagen photos were lost.. [View Full Entry]

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Well I have been touring around Europe for a couple of weeks now. I feel like I've experienced and learnt more in a couple weeks then I have in the past year. For the last couple of weeks I have done nothing but tour around cities and museums by day, and drink with people all night. Yah I just don't sleep anymore. My good friend Hoss says 'Teach your body who's boss' haha. At this rate I'll never reach 5500m ASL when Dylan, Nick and I hit up Everest. Ah well, you only live once. **DISCLAIMER I am typing this up [View Full Entry]

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So This is what it feels like to write a blog... I have to admit, I have a new found respect for people that write entertaining blogs. I've never been the type to keep a journal, or write down and share my thoughts or feelings, so this should be interesting. Anyway, world tour starts in 5 days - next time I write one of these hopefully I will have something entertaining to write. Over and out. [View Full Entry]

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