Yay! Megan and I actually were able to meet up with our friends from PG!!! Who would have thought that we would be lucky enough to meet up with Charlotte and Kaela in Italy. Haha we actually had a bit of a situation getting from France to Italy though, we missed our scheduled train. Now for those of you who have travelled by train around Europe you would think no big deal, just catch the next train. Well that's what we thought too. But it turns out that the next train, which we hopped, on was actually full - yes I [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so it's my turn to write again. Laura and I spent most of the last 2 weeks apart. She left me in Freiburg (Germany) to start her French lessons in Annecy France. I quickly made friends with a couple guys from Vancouver and spent the next few days biking around the city and exploring. It was kind of refreshing to hang out with Canadian boys again, funny that I missed the dirty jokes and gross humour. From Freiburg I spent a day biking through the Black Forest with a really cool girl from Australia and, or course, at alot of [View Full Entry]

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Well, where to begin... Germany honestly has been phenomenal. Every day there has been something new and different. Our trip began in Frankfurt, where we were welcome by Dirk and Philip (Megan’s friends whom she met in NZ). We had a great time visiting the old city (extremely small area as much of Frankfurt was bombed in WWII), drinking apple wine and going to a night club where we listened to a performance with the German Idol as the headliner. After a few days there we headed to Munich, which involved driving 220km/hr on the autobahn - I swear I thought [View Full Entry]

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Back to London - After forcing ourselves to leave the little surf town, we headed back to London for a few days. We ended up catching the Thames River Festival - a huge event with artisan booths, food from around the world, and performers. I finally got to go on the London Eye too! Kurt, our new Canadian friend, agreed to go on it with me (so I wouldn't be 'that girl' riding alone) and he even managed to find the one little tim hortons store in all of Europe and brought Laur and I Timmies Coffees! Madrid, Spain - We [View Full Entry]

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Well were to begin. After our outing to Bath and Stone Henge, we had to prepare ourselves for Europe’s largest street festival. The Notting Hill Carnival was unreal! The initial Caribbean parade was wicked; thousands of brightly colored costumes dancing along the street and on various different floats. After watching and jumping in for a bit of dancing, we made our way to dance up on the DJ’s booth. Haha, yup somehow Lex got tickets to dance up on stage in front of at least a thousand people with one of the main DJ’s at the festive - nuts! Once we [View Full Entry]

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This past week we spent bumming around Edinburgh in Scotland. It was a very last minute decision to head there from Newcastle (us? last minute travellers? no! ha) and, when we decided the night before to book a bus there, we soon realized that there was NO accomodation in the city. Yup, we accidently booked our trip for the middle of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. So, this drove us to our first actual encounter with Couchsurfing.com. Yup, we stayed with strangers on their couch (sorry dad!). It actually worked out perfect. The boys we stayed with were great and showed us [View Full Entry]

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Today we are wrapping up our trip in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in northern England! It was quite the bus ride from London to here (8 hours), but extremely scenic. Lex's buddy Mitch welcomed us with open arms. Haha he also attempted to prepare us for the 'circus'. The town of Newcastle is home to the summer weekend 'circus' -- a.k.a every single stag and stagette party for the United Kingdom. Truly, we saw and partied with 30 to 40 different groups who were all dressed up in ridiculous costumes. Everything from pirates, playboys, jail bait, to condom suit; you name it and we [View Full Entry]

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So week two is over and we're still in London. We just can't get enough. We spent the day at Tate Modern looking at Picasso paintings and Andy Warhol's (there were others but these were our fave's). While Laur and I spend hours slowly taking it all in, Lex ran the tate modern marathon and was outa there in 15mins haha. This past weekend we went out with a bunch of Canadian & Kiwi Rugby Players!! Turns out some of the rugby players went to UNBC before my time, and a few others went to Massey Uni in Palmerston North NZ [View Full Entry]

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here's some pics from London! [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, We've ARRIVED!!!! Yay, I'm happy to report that we are safe and enjoying what London has to offer. We arrived four days ago. We had quite the first day! After getting in at 7:00AM, we were detained at customs for a medical check. Bhahaha, the doctor literally looked at us, said we looked healthy and then sent us on our way. After that we dragged our 60 pound snowboard bag, backpacks, and other miscellaneous items through the airport to the overlander train. Well we found ourselves in a 'bit' of a situation. At one of our transfers Meg's got [View Full Entry]

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