What you all have been so patiently awaiting...thank you for baring with me...is this story! Probably the best day of my life! Torino, the Olympics, everything was absolutely amazing!!! After coming out of the train station, the first thing i saw that really captured my eye was this Italian man i saw...now he didn't capture my eye in the way most would like to think...He was strikingly similar to someone from home and I immediatedly knew who it was: Filpi!!! he was about the same height, same build, had the same eyes, and even the same gruff laugh...But i was too intimidated by him to stop and talk. (And as it turns out Filpi had some relatives that live near Torino....I should have just tried to talk to him) and the Canandian wanted to carry on. ... read more

Today I got up early, showered, got dressed and French braided my hair like I have done just about everyday of this trip. I then went downstairs and had breakfast. I then went back up to my room, packed up my things, checked out and headed on my way. My first stop was to the Fortress. this fortress was commissioned around 1077. It was used as the home of the bishop of Salzburg, for Salzburg is called the Vatican north of the Alps. Actually Salzburg is call a lot of things "...North of the Alps"!!! Well, It took me forever to get to the Fortress because I decided to walk up the mini mountain and not take the tram up it. But it was worth it because it was a cold day and that kept me ... read more

No, No, No...not like that movie, but that is what was happening after todays travels. We would split! I would stay in Salzburg and Jacqueline would go back to London early. We took the train from Prague to Salzburg. It was a very stressful situation because at the Czech Republic train station, we had to switch trains and we only had five minutes to do so. So the morning and that first train was filled with quite a bit of tension. I just put my iPod on and read my book and dazed in and out. However, we shared our "box" with a man and woman and they both reeked of B.O. and the box was so hot and stuffy...i thought i was going to faint or something. Then, when we got to the train station, ... read more

So, today we woke up early and were able to shower and had breakfast. Again we had bread, butter, jam, coffee and kakao. It was actually pretty filling. We packed up our things, checked out and were on our way to Prague! We got on the tube to go to the Train station and bought our tickets. It was a bit difficult because the ticket lady did not have very good English and my German is barely comprehensible!!! But we got tickets to Prague. And a direct ticket at that. Again it was confusing, because the tickets do not have seat assignments on them, for there really are not seat assignments unless you make a reservation. So, we were a little confused at how that could be, but whatever. Also we got on the train about ... read more

After my class to the Cabinet War Rooms, I came back to Metrogate, packed up my toilettries and grabbed my passport and luggage and left! It had commenced, the last class for me for SIX monthes! Pretty exciting, eh?!?!! Well, it was a bit stressful at first because I couldn't find some of the things i thought I had packed. Then, we got on the wrong tube...Great! But then we were able to get on the Stansted express right away and were even able to use our ISIC Cards. We checked in for our flight and waited in the queue for to get on the plane. The security was hardly what I imagined. And we were off! To our gate at least....we sat and sat and finally they told us that the plane was delayed. Finally ... read more