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Cow Cat Joined: February 9th 2007
Logged in: April 19th 2007
Logged in: April 19th 2007
Travel Blog Posts
Finally I'm home! Andy dropped me off at the DIRFT freight Terminal near Daventry and I quickly found a truck to bring me home. I'm currently writing this on your machine mum. The office looks a little different, has something been going on whilst I was away? I'm sorry but I didn't bring any presents as I travel light and don't actually have any luggage. I'm sure you'll be delighted just to see me, I know I'm looking forward to seeing you! Even the back of Colins head and Alistair fluffy chin will be signs of normality. I had great fun, and I hope you let me go again one day, you know I'll always come back. I think my favourite place was the Vineyard near Barcelona and Parc Guell. I met alot of new friends ... read more
Andy and George just had a big fight. On ariving at the port, George suddenly realised that he'd lost his man-bag with the tickets in! Andy was absolutely incandescent with rage. He needs to get back for his interview on Monday. Aparently he needs all day Sunday to work on his portfolio. After 20 minutes of rolling around in the mud knocking lumps out of each other they were exhausted. Shockingly, I quite enjoyed it!! When I get back can I watch some WWF on the telly please? They couldn't get tickets for the ferry until Monday unless they wanted to travel via Hull, which was not on according to Andy. So after some phone calls we've left Brugges and we're headed for the Eurotunnel at Calais.... read more
Tulips!
Amsterdam, what can I say? What a city of contrasts! By day there's the canal boat rides, and the tulip fields. Beautiful Architecture, fabulous galleries, and genuinely freindly people. By night, there's drugs, sex, more drugs and sex for sale! Neon lights, sex shops, and women selling their bodies to seedy old men for a few Euros. I really enjoyed the bulbfields, Andy had some business to do, he's got a high society wedding to do in June if he get's this job he's after so he spent all morning chatting to the owners about possible contracts for flowers for his arrangements. Apparently Andy's flowers are world renowned and he has a gift for colour palettes according to Ted. We also visited Anne Frank's house. She was a little girl who had to hide from ... read more
Me and The Wall
Cows European Tour 2007 Cow Cat Finally we made it to Berlin!! Whooeee that was a long way, weather has been really cold and the back of Andy's bike is soooo cold. I gave in eventually and allowed him to stuff me inside his jacket, much warmer if slightly odourous...bikers do tend to get a bit whiffy on long journeys! Berlin is another beautiful place, and until 1989 had been seperated by a wall. The city had been divided into four sectors immediately after the second world war, French, British, American and Russian. Unfortunately the Russians didn't get on well with the others and they blockaded the city. The other countries airlifted food in for nearly a year between June 1948 and May 1949, before the Russians gave this up as a tactic. The Russian ... read more
Well, it's probably a nice place, but I didn't see much of it. Andy had a set to with a Polish policeman and I've spent the last three days getting him out of jail. I felt most sorry for the policemen, they had a hard time understanding that I was real and not a figment of their imagination. The city, what I saw of it, was beautiful, apparently the swift Russian advance in 1944 prevented the Nazis from razing it to the ground during the retreat, like so many other Polish towns. To cap it all the weather has been really poor so there's not much to say really. We finally got Andy back this morning, and we're on the road to Berlin now. The chapter are really cross with him. They say he shouldn't have ... read more
Flowers!
This trip has been awesome!! We've been in vienna for three days and had a really good time. Most of the time has been spent touring the shops and cafes. The hot chocolate is amazing stuff, it's like drinking melted chocolate, all thick and sweet and chocolatey.... Mad Andy drank so much he was sick! George thought this was great fun and spent the nest two days taking the mickey out of Andy. That's when I found out just how dangerous event florists can be. Andy grabbed hold of a bunch of lilies in the restaurant and...well I'll spare you the detail but George is walking funny now and those lilies wont be doing any photosynthesis in the very near future! Last night I went to the concert with Tony, we saw The Salonorchester Alt ... read more
Biking!
Well I couldn't believe it either! The Italians named a part of their mountains after a dodgy British car! The Triumph Dolomite. No sooner do I get over that shock than I realise the town I'm in is called Cortina D'Ampezzo!!! I swear I'll find the glass mountains been renamed the Allegro... I finally got to do some climbing today, well only a little climbing, mostly walking. I've hooked up with some bikers. They ride Hogs or Harley Davidsons and they're into all sorts. Climbing is Ted and Georges favourite sport, apart from bedroom gymnastics apparently. I wouldn't have thought the average bedroom was big enough for a set of paralell bars. Mad Andy nearly fell off his seat laughing when George said about the Aerobics, and George then spent the rest of the evening arguing ... read more
Well the mystery tour was frankly a bit spooky! We went to an ancient Roman town called Herculaneum. Back in AD 79 the town was buried by a pyroclastic flow from a volcanic eruption from mount vesuvius. Right up until 1982 archaeologists though that most of the inhabitants had escaped the eruption. Then they found 250 skeletons in some Roman boat houses. This pyroclastic flow souinds like serious stuff! I didn't like the skeletons they gave me the heebie jeebies! I'm sorry but my cameras playing up again so there are no photo's. Right now we're just passing through the Lake Garda region. On our way to the Dolomites. I'm going to leave Doris there and see if I can get some climbing in. I quite fancy a go at the glass mountain, mentioned in the ... read more
Pisa
I lost my blogs from Rome and Barcelona, so I'll redo them here for you. On Saturday Carlos took me into Barcelona and we whisked round the city in his Seat Ibiza. He loves Gaudi architecture, and I can see why. I did have some photo's of me but unfortunately my blog didn't upload and I don't seem to have them available anymore. . I loved the Palau Güell which is a city mansion. Apparently the guests arrived by horsedrawn carrriage into the bowels of the house itself. More interestingly there were small windows high up in the walls of the receiving room so the hosts could get a sneak peek of their guests before coming down to greet them. This gave the lady of the house time to adjust her dress if necessary. Also Park ... read more
The Vines
Well I finally made it to that waiter Miguels Uncle's vineyard. If you put the following co-ordinates into Google Earth (or Maps) it should give you an ariel view of the vineyard itself. 41.285845,1.707687 Carlos, (Miguels uncle) said I should avoid hitchhiking, especially with lorry drivers. He didn't like Frank very much and I have to say he was rather an odd man. The grapes here are used to make a delicious Cava. Apparently you can't beat a good Cava. I'm off to Barcelona tomorrow for a quick scoot round before I catch a plane to Italy. Carlos reckons you shouldn't miss Rome if you're doing the mediterranean tour, but he recommended Barcelona for the Gaudi Architecture. In my latest picture I was having a walk through the Vineyard, I tried a couple of the grapes ... read more
