Megs and Laur

Following our epic time in Sicily with the girls, Laura and I split off for a few days and headed to Naples - the REAL Italy. This city is raw. I mean there are families that live in appartments 6 stoires up and lower a bucket down to collect fresh produce every morning. We had an amazing time staying with my mom's friends Pam and Mike. It was so nice to be in a home again and Pam is an amazing cook - even the 3 days of rain were bearable when we came home to her incredible meals. Meeting back up with the Charlotte and Kayla in Rome, we spent numerous days seeing the sights and many nights meeting locals, attending Neckversaries, meeting the legendary traveler who got caught steeling a boat (great story, ask ... read more

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 Black Forest Cake. Next I moved on Zurich, Switzerland to stay with my friend Raffa. Zurich is a beautiful city but spending 9 euros (about 16 dollars) on a small starbucks coffee did not quite ... read more

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 arrived in Madrid and spent the first 2 nights in luxury - a hotel room! We ended up spending a few days attending a conference (long story) and met up with a friend of a ... read more

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 around the city. They even had a spare room for Laura and I to share! We went to a different show everyday. We saw comedy, plays and dancing. They were all spectacular but one....which presented ... read more

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 while I was there too! very random. Good times. We woke up on Sunday and went to Church. This was no ordinary church though, this church was full of crazy Aussies, South Africans and Brits ... read more