http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/MoveItManning/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from MoveItManning en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:04:04 +0000 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:04:04 +0000 ...is the connecting flights area for international arrivals in JFK. After a 7 12 hour uneventful flight from Heathrow I found myself in a small sweaty crowded room that had everything but the padded white walls. It was a zoo simply put. This was the place where the problem people go. I gathered from my recon that it specialized in missed flights and families of unusual size. There we http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-432745.html I live in the dog shit capital of the world. The French call it le crottin de chien but a rose by any other name so to speak. The owners give their pooches carte blanche and for the rest of us it's like a game of minesweeper out there. You can always pick out the ones who are going to leave it. They have a preemptive look of guilt about them and their eyes dart back and forth to keep a l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Chamb-ry/blog-415523.html My goodness how the time flies when all you do is eat cheese and drink wine. I am approaching the end of month one in Chambry fat as a Christmas goose. I have joined a gym to counteract the effects but the food here is just so damn GOOD. Suspiciously good even. I'm going to be spoiled rottenmy lean cuisines may not cut it when I get back.My French is....improving I'm asking you becaus http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Chamb-ry/blog-411223.html I feel...strange. I'm not...moving. I'm not in a different town every day living out of my larva shaped backpack. I'm not stealing individually portioned jams to eat with my baguette later on. I'm...still.I arrived in Chambery on Sunday night after another disasterous EZ Jet flight. And after telling the man who manages the student apartments that I am more comfortable with English for import http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Rh-ne-Alpes/Chamb-ry/blog-404518.html Oh dear. So much hilarious stuff to record so little time. Yesterday I arrived in Lisbon after taking a night bus from Seville. It was a routine drillthe bus was late packed with people and Laurn and I were forced to listen to the sounds of an amorous couple in the row behind us. Par for the course. Around 2 am the bus stops in a town called Davida or something like that so that one l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tagus-Valley/Lisbon/blog-401194.html Back in Spain. Seville to be exact. From my last entry you may think that I hated my trip to Morocco. Not so. The country is beautiful the people are very hospitable once you get to know them and I still drool at the mention of Berber whiskey. I ate more tangines than I care to count and I got to see snake charmers for chrissake. I loved Morocco. I hated the harrassment. And towards http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Seville/blog-400307.html Day Tour Fez on a FridayGetting there and awayTake a petit taxi to the Medina. You don't speak French or Arabic well enough nor do you know the area so don't even bother trying to ask for a specific entrancejust let him drop you off wherever he feels like and pretend that's what you wanted the whole time. Spend a half hour or so trying to find your way in through a back alley.ActivitiesB http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Tangier-T-touan/Chefchaouen/blog-399499.html Signs of culture shock may include dizziness claustrophobia displacement and a slightly glazed over appearance as you realize there ARE no streetsigns.I write again from Marrakesh in something called the cyber park where I am mostly surrounded by other tourists with equally bad french and dressed eerily like myself. I figure I'd take the opportunity to write an entry as internet here is not http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-398341.html Apparently hats are where it's at in Granada.We arrive early this morning fresh off the night bus. After checking into our hostel and getting a quick breakfast and some internet time we walk around getting a feel for the city. We notice a lot of dressed up people heading in one direction. It's not Sunday so our interest is peaked. Fashion show I secretly think. Suddenly we stumble a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-397513.html In the hills of Quieros near Brzana there lives a cow. Something is wrong with this cow. Kait who sleeps across the street from this cow was at first concerned for its wellbeing. But after two whole days of listening to its incessant demonic cowcalls now all she wants to do is bludgeon it to death with a blunt object.And so leaving Brzana was bittersweet. Fortunately we happened t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Basque-Country/Bilbao/blog-395892.html Week uno.Ive hardly had time to gather my thoughts let alone come up with a witty entry in my snazzy new blog. I am writing from Brzana Spain a small town in the Quieros province. I have never seen a place more perfectly nestled more at peace with its environment. I am afraid of overusing the word beautiful while I am here but this place truly deserves the title. Situated in the middl http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Basque-Country/blog-394929.html Preparing for a full 24 hours of travel tomorrow. It's my own fault really. The true miser that I am I picked the cheapest flight possible to Madrid which accomplishes two things a 9 hour layover in London and a bus ride from Heathrow to Gatwick. I have no idea what my mental state will be like at the end of all this. I plan to document everything.So here's hoping for the best...no flight http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Vermont/Burlington/blog-392809.html