http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Em83/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Em83 en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:44:33 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:44:33 +0000 so we went to amsterdam which was great we went on the walking tour went to a dance night where a live trumpet player soloed 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-310877.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-306013.html well its been quite awhile and i hadnt even realizedwe 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 d http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-305637.html 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 breakfasti 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 wh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Hessen/Frankfurt/blog-302827.html It's now monday when im writing this but i dated it Saturday as i have quite a bit of catching up to doon 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 n http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-302824.html 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 w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-301052.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-299952.html so we're finaly in paris after an extermely long train ride and a bed of bugswe 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-299949.html 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 tues http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Friuli-Venezia-Giulia/blog-298485.html 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 croissantwe 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 ver http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-297528.html so its been a hectic two days...there was a tran strike the day we went from rome to florence which created some uneasy feelings when they werent' sure if there would be a train leaving that day. many people were stuck in rome and we were lucky to find a train going anywhere near florence. we hopping onto a trian that wasn't going to the main train station but that would get us to the city. we got http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-297064.html last nights dinner was great...we ate at menti doc which was a wine barrestaurent. it was def not crowded even though it was a fri so taht was kind of sad but we talked for a good two hoursa nd then headed back to the hostel and got some well deserved rest.today was another fun and event fulled daythe day started off interestingly when tat didnt feel so great but that was fixed soon after on teh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-295705.html so...today's main activity was definitely SWEATING it is incredibly hot here with no relief at night either. the thermoniter in our room reads 30 degrees CELCIUS the entire time. allie and i are considering pooling for AC which we can get at night for a certain price from papa germano they also gave us a great gift of a bottle of wine last night...how kind of themlast night we had dinner in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-295298.html so we finally made it...after 24 hours of travel we arrived with many interesting events in betweenthe goodbye was rather emotional even driving through og was tough...but once we got through security i calmed down and decided to make the best of it. our flight to england was great it went by quick and AA has a new entertainment system i got to watch definitely maybe and the office and monk http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-294932.html