so we went to amsterdam which was great!! we went on the walking tour, went to a dance night where a live trumpet player solo-ed along with a dj. we also ate at a great veggie restaurent. we had a nasty run in a with a rather grumpy waiter. we saw down and on the menu it said these mini dutch pancakes were 5 euros and we were kinda questioning it anyways and so we ordered them and she said ok 5.50 and we said oh hm i don't htink we'll stay then. and then she got all mad and said [View Full Entry]

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so we arrived in steamy berlin last friday. we arrived and then went and got a kabab lunch and then i came back to the hostel and collapsed for two hours as i was sick with a cough. i met tat in a nearby park and we sat and read and then headed towards the birkenstock store which did not have my size!! we made dinner and then we met this guy called tim. i went with tim and tat for a drink and then came back home because i was still feeing pretty bad. tat came back pretty late but [View Full Entry]

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well its been quite awhile and i hadnt even realized!! we spent the next day at kirstens doing lots of walking. we went to the rhine and walked up a hill of vineyards and at the top there was a statue honoring some battle germany had won. it was really cool but def a little rainy still...on our way back we went halfway up a mountain close to kirstens house and got a bus to the top and then walked down. it was a really active but pleasant day! we had a very german meal for dinner, a green sauce with [View Full Entry]

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on sunday we got up and went and bought some gifts for the families we are staying with in germany and then got our last paris breakfast!! i bought a mini olive roll for the train and then .... get ready ... i had a apple pocket which was calleld something along the lines of chanson des pommes and i had part of a slice of coconut flan. it was not finished because... tat had bought a cheese bread which was blue cheese melted into bread and then she got a religeuse chocolat which was a mountain like eclare which rich [View Full Entry]

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It's now monday when im writing this but i dated it Saturday as i have quite a bit of catching up to do! on Friday we wnet to the musee d'orsay which is by far my fav. musuem in paris. the paintings there are much more to mz liking and its so much more mangable. we got in for free again! yey! and i made sure to take time to look at every differnet painting and found many by famous artists that id never seen before to be really amazing. i esp liked monets snow paintings which it turns out are [View Full Entry]

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yesterday, wednesday we spent the morning and early afternoon in the louvre whcih was tiring but realy fun. we saw lots of artists that i had never heard of before that i know really loved. from there we headed towards teh centre de pompidou and went shopping on the way. stopping into zara and buying purple pants!! they're very exciting. at the pompidou we saw a man doing an act otuside which we watched for a little bit adn then wandered through the two stores that are inside as we din't feel like paying to climb the outside. i grabbed some [View Full Entry]

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our first day in paris! the first thing we did was go food shopping which was great! we got fruit, salad, adn i got a lovey quishe for dinner. we went to see a market which was very fun to look around. there were a bunch of random items that people just seemed to be selling of. some of which seemed geniunely antiquey however much of it look just like junk. i got some fries and then we headed back to the apartment. when we got out of the subway it was raining adn we ran for cover in some red [View Full Entry]

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so!! we're finaly in paris after an extermely long train ride and a bed of bugs! we left for paris at 10 on saturday adn got a train to milan where we grabbed some coffee and snacks. the train to milan was great!! we had our own compartment to ourselves so could lie down and sleep as there were three seats on each side. well actailly i got snacks but the supermarket was extremely expensive and had realy nasty food so i just grabbed a yogert. we hopped onto our train and there were issues becuase they put carriage 5 at [View Full Entry]

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so we finally arrived in venice....! we left florence yesterday at 11 only to travel 15 min to antoher train station for a train that would take us to venice. the train FINALLY arrived and then we started our journey, only 4 hours luckily. however when we were in teh florence train stsation we tried to book our train from venice to paris only to be told that the first train woudl be avaible on tuesday...2 days after we had thought we'd leave. this created some confusion and panic but we worked together and separetly to figure out (possibly my train [View Full Entry]

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today we got up and wandered down to the gallery accademia...we waited in line for a little over an hour and then finally got inside!! i had gotten before we joined the line a delishious chocolate croissant!! we went inside the gallery and saw david and lots of other cool paintings which were very cool. we also saw some other cool statues. we then wandered to the basillica san lorenzo which was very peaceful although rather hot. then we finally went inside the duomo which i thought was incredibly beautiful!! after that we got lunch at a caffeteria style store and [View Full Entry]

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