http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JaxnSar/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JaxnSar en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:54:07 +0000 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:54:07 +0000 Well... this is it. Only a select few days until we leave to an unknown land. Who has any idea of the mysteries and wonders that await my sister and I. Well I dunno about you but it all sounds a bit unrealistic. Have you ever heard of anything more frigntening than sending Jackie and Me to another country... yeesh.... they are not gonna know what hit them. Anyway I am absolutley loving the wonde http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Lethbridge/blog-688.html I can't wait for this trip. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Lethbridge/blog-696.html Earlier this week we did some last minute shopping for this trip and were reminded of how cheap we are instead of buying new shoes we just bought some padded inserts for our old ones and instead of buying some topquality underwear we got 5 for 10 bucks at Sears. We did splurge on Sarah's money belt mostly because I don't feel like hauling yet another bulky passport around with me everywhere I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Lethbridge/blog-725.html Well we made it over the big blue ocean. The airplane was okay there was a whole bunch of turbulance so by time we reached 41000 ft I was feeling pretty much done in. The food was chicken stir fry in quotations because thats what they were calling it but one could argue that it was not really chicken... Customs at the airport took forever but we finally made it out and took a bus into Glas http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Glasgow/blog-807.html All I can say is HOLY CRAP I cant believe we are finally here. It took bloody well long enough look the language is seeping through already anyway the plan is that Jackie and I will both be writing on this about the same stuff so dont be surprised if lots of the journals are similar due to the fact that we share a brain. Back to the Europe thing. Well we are outside of Glasgow in this wi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Glasgow/blog-808.html Greetings from bonnie ScotlandWe have had a crazy couple of days although it has been a blast. After I wrote last we ordered some traditional fish and chips for supper and went to bed I have NEVER been that tired. We went to bed at like 730. Worse than mom The next morning we ate the rest of our fries for breakfast and sat with a very friendly Swiss guy who asked do Canadians always http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-826.html And here we are in lovely Edinburgh. Unfortunetly we still have yet to see lovely Edinburgh in the light of day as due to complications with our alarm clock yesterday circumstances arose which made us unable to take and early train ride here. We arrived in the city at around 1200 last night and then had to wait about 20 minutes for a taxi... THe city was really pretty in the dakr so I would http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-827.html Here we are Bonnie Scotland far behind us now situated in Jolly Old England. Liverpool to be exact. Very nice place we found that the best word to describe it is 'bustling.' Well when we last left off we were still in Scotland so I will venture back a ways to finish off our scottish experiance. After the very rainy 3rd of July we strated out in search of a bus that would take us to Edinburg http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-835.html We are now in Liverpool at the library where we got free internet access Woo Liverpool is a crazy city but it's interesting and a lot of fun. Today we got up early and went for a walk to this gigantic cathedral I guess it is the biggest one of its type in the world and went inside to check it out and take pictures. And let me tell you it was bloody MASSIVE. I have honestly never seen a bu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/blog-836.html Hello all We have had a very busy few days we left Liverpool right after I wrote last and took a train to Bath where we had an absolutely fabulous dinner right outside the Roman Baths it was great because there was a guy with a flute serenading us and we had a nice juicy hamburger mmmmmmm.... We sat around and watched the birds for a while and then we went into the Roman Baths. It was very http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-848.html Good Morrow So here we are in beautiful Stratford upon Avon where we just left Shakespeare's birthplace...... how cool is that i ask you. Anyway last you heard from me we were in Liverpool. After we left Liverpool we went to bath. Here we decided to go and see the Roman Baths. We took the scenic route which was actually another like 10 minutes added to our walk but was well worth it. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Warwickshire/Stratford-upon-Avon/blog-849.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 Yeah.... im in London..... I just thought I would start with that. I cannoit even believe that I am here. Really doesnt seem like it can be possible. London is so huge i cont beleive it. It is like nothing that I have ever seen before and i think that the enormity of this trip has just now hit me....nbspJackie and I left the Library in Stratford and made our way down to the church where shakes http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-859.html Hey everyoneI will have to make this one a bit fast I am on a time limit and this damnable camera is giving me trouble as usual. So we are now in London England and have gotten an insane amount of stuff done in a short amount of time. We got here last night from StratfordUponAvon after seeing Shakespeare's grave OMG and had to take the London Underground to get to our hostel which is http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-860.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 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 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/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-903.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/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-904.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/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-906.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/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-911.html