http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JaxnSar/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JaxnSar en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:32:02 BST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:32:02 BST The Vatican Umbrella feuds Trains crazy drivers dug up cities more trains cabins drunken girls and sleepless nights... that basically summs up the past few days.... They have certainly been interesting...So last we left off was in Rome ah beautiful Roma. The day following the tour of the Ancient City started off with a trip to the Vatican. We got there quite early in the hopes of avoiding http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-992.html Dammit I just wrote a whole bunch and accidentally pressed a wrong button and it all disappeared so I will instead recapWas raining like crazy in Rome got up early to miss crowds forgot it was Sunday at the Vatican so crowds still present. Saw the square lots of statues very cool. Went into Saint Peter's most amazingly amazing place ever. Bought umbrella got soaked anyhow from ensuing ar http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-991.html No time to do a full entry because we are at what they call an internet point and there is only one computer. So far we have made it safe and sound to Napoli and have spent the afternoon browsing some of the little shops around town. Tomorrow we will spend the day at Pompeii. So instead of an entry here are some more picturesCiaoJackie and Sarah http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Campania/Naples/blog-975.html Well last time I wrote on here we were on our way out of Antibes to Italy this was basically a wasted day as we spent the whole time in a stupid train station and our train didnt show up on time so we were forced to skip Pisa and stay in Genoa for the night... which was scary because we didnt have reservations and for the first time on this trip I had no idea what anyone was saying... at ALL.. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-963.html Ahh...the sights and sounds of a 2000 year old city.... could you really ask for more personnally i think not. So if you didnt gather we made it to Rome alright after two hellish days on trains and in dumb train stations. Things are just lovely now though as everything seems to be now working out in our favour. I just wish i understood what everyone was saying.... not a sniff really....But now http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-962.html So this is officially the most boring and irritating day of my life. However it is slightly improved by the fact that I am in Europe under any other circumstance I would not be happy at all right now. Jackie and I were supposed to go to Pisa today so we left our hotel room after getting little to no sleep and then went off to the train station in a cab that cost an unexcpected massive amount o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d--Azur/blog-949.html It is bloody HOT outside But on the plus side all the keys on this keyboard are in the right places. But now I'm so used to the other way that I dont quite know what to do... Oh well.So last we left off was our last night in Lyon. We went out for a fabulous meal in the newer part of town where a very adorable old couple Dick and Joie from Iowa sat next to us. We helped them pick their meals http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d--Azur/blog-948.html Ahhh... Lyon so peaceful and relaxing and so insanely hot it istne even funny. Seriouisly I am dying here. Though it is a nice switch from the cold rain in Scotland and England I am not used to it being so hot. Sweltering.... Im melting melting oh what a world Yeah so thats the weather here. Very hot if you didnt get that before... We left PAris yesterday sigh.... but we had an aw http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Lyon/blog-938.html We are now in Lyon which is a fabulous city with the exception of the fact that it is so hot here I feel that I maynbspdie of heat stroke any moment. It is I think about 35 degrees here but also it is a lot more humid so that when you step into a particularily hot spot it feels like your lungs may collapse whew. Our trip from Paris went well we had a delicious lunch I had some meat that I h http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Lyon/blog-937.html Yeah we are still in Paris but this internet s so cheap and we keep finishing up the day so much earlier than in London that this just seems like the best thing to do. Today was a fun day. We had planned last night to be waking up at around 800 and so we set the alarm as such. It went off as planned however I insisted that as I was very tired we sleep for five more minutes. They passed f http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-930.html Sigh it is our last night in lovely Paris. We are sad. So last night I set my alarm for about 730nbspbecause we wanted to get up early to avoid the crazy tourist crowds. It went off and I tried to get Sarah up but she was like 5 more minutes. Okay. Sonbsp5 minutesnbsplater I tried to wake her up again and she was like 15 more minutes. So I snoozed for a bit then at aroundnbsp8 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-929.html I have returned So once again I will apologise for the cut off on the last entry stupid fascist computer... trying to stop me from expressing myself.... Anyway today was a very good day except the whole part where I had to get up at 730. Early mornings should be abolished... if and when I rule the world... the first thing to go... So we woke up today and got dressed and such. I am so in l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-922.html So far Paris is the greatest city ever. The people are SO nice partly because of Sarah's ample bosom I think but hey at least they are civil there is so much to see and do and there is a very relaxing mood about the place that makes you feel like just sitting and chilling out preferably while eating my new favourite dessert strawberry tartelettes YUM.Today we woke up quite early to the cha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-921.html Okay it's me again but this time I have a longer time to figure out this ridiculous keyboard every letter is in the wrong place and it took me forever to find the sign. Yeesh.So last we wrote we were still in London staying at that godforsaken hostel. I need to vent about it so here are all the horrible things in point formOur beds looked like they were picked up at a garage sale 12 pri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-911.html my last thing got cut off halfway so dont mind that anyway hopefully Jackie wrote enough to cover me... miss yall lots... LOVE SARAH http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-906.html Hey all Sorry for the delay in updating but we have just been so busy what with plays trains and towers and other such business. Before I stqrt I would like to warn everyone that if this is full of spelling mistakes it is not cuz im dumb its because keyboards in frace are arranged differently and so i may press something without meaning to. Like the a is where the q should be and vice versa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-904.html Sarah is already well in the midst of writing her journal on these godforsaken keyboards she has much more patience than I so instead I will just say that we are now in lovely Paris so far my favorite city although they were all great last night was the Bastille Day celebration so we saw an amazing display of fireworks over the beautiful Eiffel Tower. Today we are planning on going to Mont http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-903.html Good day to allI will make this a very quicknbspupdate but you also get pictures this time YaySo yesterday was fun we spent the morning at the Runnymede Memorial in Egham where we very easily found our great Uncle Donald's name and took a pile of photos. The place is very beautiful and peaceful and we had a nice time there. We then took a train to Salisbury and a bus to Stonehenge which http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-876.html Here we are still in London and still in the Hostel from hell. We are very happy however that we will be leaving it tomorrow. Thank God.Anyway well last we left off we had gotten back from a very productive day. Anotherone awaited us the next day as we went down to the city. We got a glimpse of the tower of london which we will be inspecting with greater interest today. After that we went t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-875.html We had a fabulous day today in lovely London. We woke up quite early once again... you can imagine how Sarah likes that and had our socalled breakfast here at the hostel which consisted of 2 pieces of dry toast wow thanks.nbspWe hopped back on the London Underground mind the gap.... mind the gap.... and took the train tonbspcentral Londonnbspwhere we checked out the Tower of Londo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-864.html