We arrived in Venice on Septmeber 10, in the middle of the film festival. Not having booked our accomodations in advance, we spent an hour at the train station, along with hundreds of other people, trying to book one of the few budget rooms left in the city. We finally found a room in a Christian hostel and were allowed to share a double with bunkbeds beacuse we are married. The first night we met up with Sarah, an old friend of Tracey's, in Sant Margarita Square (the student area) and shared stories and wine on tap until we had to [View Full Entry]

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Salvador Dali Tour If you are not a fan of Dali's work (which Jason very much is), or don't know much about him, hopefully this might bring about some interest. We rolled into Figures later than planned, on September 7, 2004, and after finding our hostel, we quickly decided it best not to stay in the area. Dark, dingy streets, very unwelcoming. So we found another spot for the night. Not high class by any means, but by the backpackers standards, quite nice. TV, balcony and vey clean. We took full advantage of it; had dinner in our room, then hung [View Full Entry]

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The Car So, after picking up ourselves a sporty little Peugot (thanks to Ferdanand and Sondra for the ride to get it and Ethel for funding it!), we headed of into mainland Spain to do the city tour. Upon leaving San Jose, we quickly realized that the road signage in Spain is less than adequate for those unfamiliar with the area. An hour later of driving in circles and getting a smaller detailed map, we got orientated. We headed up to the Sierra Nevada mountains to spend a couple of nights in a small group of mountain towns. The lanscape in [View Full Entry]

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In all honesty, we contemplated extending our beach holiday in Tossa de Mar to continue to relax and bask in the sun. However, wanderlust, we set off for San Jose on August 27th. In an effort to cut costs, we decided to sleep in our seats rather than pay the extra 20 euros each (~ $32 CAN) for couchettes. This no longer seemed like a good idea when we discovered that the seats did not recline; we woke up every ten minutes with the ‘nodding head syndrome’. Two buses and two trains later, we arrived in San Jose. San Jose is [View Full Entry]

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Well, we made it to Spain. After a night train ride from Marseilles to the border, we had a milk-run of a train ride from the France border to Barcelona. It was more like a metro train with all these people on their way to work. There we were with our huge packs, falling asleep on each other. At least we weren´t the only backpackers on the train. We passed Figures (birth place of Salvidor Dali), which was pretty cool. We arrived in Barcelona on August 24th, where it was sweltering hot and very muggy. We jumped right on a bus [View Full Entry]

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Marseille, “The Surrey of Paris” Well, Paris was nice. Marseille on the other hand was much less attractive, but an experience none the less. We arrived there on August 20th. The train ride from Paris to Southern France was beautiful with rolling countryside spotted by the odd village or castle in the middle of nowhere! (The people of the past here must have been quite isolated, but well fortified). We arrived and immediately noticed the lack of beautiful French Riviera landscape we had expected. Marseille is a run down city covered in grafitti and stinking of urine. We did [View Full Entry]

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Enfin, after more than 24 hours of travel, we arrived in Paris on July 18th. I am sure that you are familiar with the city, either through your own travels or pictures, so we will spare you of a lengthy description. Needless to say, Paris is a beautiful city and wonderful place to start a honeymoon. After checking into to our hotel (compliments of Shaun and Claire), we headed out to check out the sights. We started with the neighbourhood, a chic area filled with sidewalk cafes and pubs, then took a subway to the Champs Elysee for the evening. We [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, Well, the week of the wedding was a fabulous time.  It was nice to have many of you arrive earlier in the week.  The weather was absolutely beautiful, but don´t be deceived into thinking it is always like that in St. John´s.  Things kicked of on Thursday night with the whale watching/pub crawl.  We started with a group ¨Screech In¨ at the Dobbins.  The bus ride to the whale tour boats was a 45 minute warm up with pizza and beer.  With everyone feeling good, we boarded O´Brien´s boat and headed out to sea in Bay Bulls.  Once again, the weather was [View Full Entry]

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OK everyone, here we go! We are going to go over a few things on the first entry to make sure the blog is running smoothly.  First, if you received this by accident or don't wish to recieve the updates, simply unsuscribe yourself on the option included on the email.  There are a ton of names on the list and some may have been old emails we had in our contact lists.  If you know of anyone that is not receiving the blog and would like to, please forward it to them and they can add themselves to the list.  If not, email us [View Full Entry]

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