http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Jen-and-Jo-Jo/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Jen and Jo Jo en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57:58 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57:58 +0000 Hi all Well we did it. We somehow made it to our final destination First of all I will have to apologize for my previous entries...they are full of spelling errors and words that just don't make sense. Please understand that I am going on little sleep and have not had coffee in about 2 weeks that will all change in about 5 min as I found my first Starbucks and it is directly across the st http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-319688.html Hey everyone Well today we made it Venice. I still can not believe that we are here and travelling all around Europe It is crazy But first back a day to Florence. Yesterday Monday we went on a country side tour of Tuscany. Thats right we skipping all of the famous museums in Florence Dont freak out art lovers...but Jen and I are just fine looking at the replica of David So ba http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-319073.html It is official...I am oldId like to take a momentCelebrate my ageAn ending of an eraAnd the turning of a pageNow it is time to focus in on where I go from hereLord have mercy on my next 30 yearsThose lyrics from Tim McGraw say it allJen and I just got into Florence about 1 hour ago. We left Rome via train and took about a 1.5 train ride to Florence...and yes...once again got lost. These dire http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-317880.html Yea I figured it out Enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-317240.html Wow...what a temp difference here in Rome. We arrived yesterday am after a long morning. We got up at 3am...took a taxi to the train station...took a 20 min train ride to the airport...took a plane to London...then took a plane to Rome...then to a train into the city. By this time it was about 130pm and had yet another adventure trying to find our hotel. Geez these instructions from the hote http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-317228.html Hello everyone Today we decided to get out of the city and take in some of the countryside. We went to a cheese market and learned how cheese was made and ate lots of free samples. Jen was in heaven as she is such a cheese and cracker fanThen we ended up in a town called Edam I think that's what it was called and walked around to look at the old houses from the rich dutch people. Their http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-316465.html Hey everyone I will apologize for any spelling errors because there is no spell check Well we made it We landed about 7am Sunday morning in Amsterdam which was about 1am Michigan time and then had the delight of going from the airport to the Central train station to the tram and then to our stop...and then the directions said the hotel was a one minute walk from the tram stop. That's http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/blog-316010.html