http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Katie-and-Lynsey/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Katie and Lynsey en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:34:52 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:34:52 +0000 We have arrived back to Bolonga all of us feeling a little crispy...After spending 3 straight days on the beautiful beaches of Sardina our skin is showing the affects of the sun.Even after taking turns rubbing sunscreen on each other not one of us escaped a burn...but it was totally worth itWe left Civittaveccnia at 1000pm and slept on the boat arriving in Sardina the next morning From there we http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Emilia-Romagna/Bologna/blog-408747.html We left Matteo's appartment in Milan and headed to Venice for the night and then from there to Florcencehe helped us book hostels and even gave us not one but three maps of florence to help us on our waywhen we arrived in the station Katie went to the washroom Feeling confident Lynsey went to ask information about where on our map the hostel could be locatedthe woman at the desk looked at the add http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Vicenza/blog-406279.html We arrived from the early morning flight in MilanMade our way to the main train station where we were to meet MateoThe plan was to meet at 10am and it was only 940 so we were doing well. sat in the shade cast by the tall tower with the bright red countdown to the fast train and peoplewatched hoping to see matteo amongst the crowd.... well we waited and waited.. and prayed that he hadn't forgot http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-402974.html ha we thought the last night train was badthis time we get on.. lucked out to have seats in a group of four two sets of two facing each other so we could prop our feet up and attempt a twisted laying down position of some sort.in night train terms we were on top of the world. and two minutes before we pull out of the station our very quiet uninhibited car gets filled to maximum capacity wit http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-402112.html Arrived to Madrid and the nice weather walked around the city with a self guided tour mentioned in the Spain travel book we had borrowed from the ONeils a big thank you for that its been really helpfulvisited the Prado museum and the Royal Palace.. which was randomly closed for maintenance so we sunbathed in the gardens and afterwards did some shoppingkatie found a cute little sundress decide http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tagus-Valley/Lisbon/blog-400054.html After a wonderful week long stay with the Hariks we boarded a 10 hour long train and moved south we took the train all the way down to Marseilles in the south of FranceSarahs cousin Joe was nice enough to let us stay with him we all toured the old port the church with an amazing view of the entire city and of course THE BEACHLynsey was crazy enough to brave a freezing ocean swim.. so cold yo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Madrid/blog-398453.html We have had an amazing week here in Luxembourgwe caught up on some laundry sleep and missed meals.Katie accidentally left her glasses in Nantes at Agathe's house and they kindly mailed them to Luxembourgso our stay here was a little longer then planned as we were waiting for the package to arrivenot that we minded staying a few extra nightsThursday we got to sleep in and stay in our PJs the who http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Luxembourg/Luxembourg-City/blog-396567.html Already a month in... unbelievableHad a great weekend with Agathehung out with her friends and toured around NantesHer mom took us to the west coast on sunday Beautiful dayshe showed us how they harvest the salt from the oceanthey diverge the water into little streams each more shallow than the previous until their is only a few inches of salt water which they separate into fields. during the su http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Luxembourg/Luxembourg-City/blog-395387.html here we are.. in PARISreally is the city of love..we've fallen for it already where we actually get to use our french this will be a breeze ehoh and then realize how much we've forgotten since the days of all those monotonous and oh so pointless grammar lessons that we now think may have actually been good to listen to... merdeoh well we've been making dolots of smiles and hand gestures http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-393172.html wrote this message a while ago but it didn't get posted for some reason... here it is now though.enjoy Arrived in Cork after a very long tiring train mix up daybut we did arrive none the less. kissed the blarney stone yesterday...so now we will have luck and eloquence for eternity or something....lets just make something clear thoughthis wasn't just a bend down and give a random old rock in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Cork/blog-393169.html Had an awesome day todayafter spending monday night in Westport... a cute little picture perfect townwe arrived in Galway yeaterday got up this morning and made it to our tour bus for 930 am that took us all over the placespecifically the cliffs of Moher thoughamazing viewnicer weather would have made it more enjoyable it was cloudy all day and rained a little the tour guide said we were super lu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Galway/blog-391124.html Top o' the morning to yaspent the day travelling yesterdayfirst by train then boat then bus and finally by footwe have made it to Ireland thoughbut bars were closed last night as it was good friday..... so we havent even had a guinness yetplan is to meet Eric friend from school tonight and hit the pubs HAPPY EASTER everyonexoLynsey and Katie http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-389624.html Dearest allTook the fast train Eurostar from Brussels to London it only took us 2 hours i thinkwe realized once on the train that we had no map and no idea about where the hostel we had booked online wasor even what the name of it for that matter.. just a street nameKatie asked for directions from these American sounding people that were also on the trainhoping they too were tourists and had a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Derbyshire/Derby/blog-389096.html ...we made it to Brugeswithout any problemswe even managed to find a hostelwe just got off the phone with katie's family in England and have now planned out the next little bit of our triptomorrow to Brussels for the nightthen making our way to London for two nightsfrom there to Derby to stay with the O'Briensand on to Dublin afterwards..well thats the plan anyways....fingers crossedxoKatie and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/blog-387686.html sohere we arewe made it to belgium in one piecejust got in from meeting emily's friends for a few belgian beersid also like to add we haven't been to sleep yet so bear with us...April 1st was a frantic day filled with tying together loose endsof which we had way more then i can believethank god for kathy our patient taxi driver we did somehow manage to accomplish everything on the list with only http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/Brussels-Capital-Region/blog-387127.html March 23rdOnly eight days to go and we both have so much we still have to do.Tomorrow are our last shifts at work and the official start of the week long countdown.Let's hope we can get the hang of this blog before we end up going..well lets face it katie technology hopeless.so lets hope I can get the hang of this... fingers are crossed.xoLyns http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/blog-384533.html