like beer :) just kidding. it's good for more than that. we just arrived in belgium the day before yesterday. we arrived in brugges. mom told us we should go there, so we went. we are so glad that we did too. it's a really cute city that used to be surrounded by a city wall and a moat. it was really cool. our hostel was the most disgusting one so far....the beds and the shower were SCARY!!! but thank goodness it was just for one night. we spend our only day there going to the brewery. they took us on [View Full Entry]

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so. yes, i know thats how i always start our blog....but, that wraps it up.... we are in amsterdam. we arrived here on wednesday and we are leaving here tomorrow morning bright and early (saturday). we LOVE it here. the city is so beautiful...a city of canals in the design of a spiderweb. like i said we got here on wednesday night. we got a ride from the IKEA in Hamburg from our friend Henning. he picked us up in a VW bus/camper thing...pretty much the coolest thing EVER!! and we rode to just outside of amsterdan via the autobaun (which [View Full Entry]

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our final full day in Berlin was depressing, to say the least. we decided that since we were in Germany we must go see a concentration camp. we found a day tour to one just north of Berlin called Sachsenhausen. we met up with our tour guide at 10:30am on Sunday. we weren't really sure what to expect. our tour guide was amazing. she has been doing the tours for over 2 years and definately knows her stuff. we headed up to the camp via train, just as its prisioners had just decades ago. we marched through the small town that [View Full Entry]

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We are now in Berlin and it is absolutley beautiful.. But before we got here we were chillin' in Mannheim. Our friend Tawny lives on base there because her husband is in the military, so we took it as a chance to visit them. We stayed there for two nights and it was a much needed relaxing time. It was a lot of fun. Tawny is pregnant, and we got to go to her appointment with her and heard the heartbeat of the baby which was very cool. Her husband is super nice and they couldnt be cuter together. They [View Full Entry]

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oh man. how many problems can two young travelers encounter in 3 days....i´ll tell you how many. a lot. so like i said...after our ridiculously long day of travel we finally made it to vienna. it is gorgeous here. the architecture alone is worth going to see. we spent our only day there simply wandering around soaking it all in. we wandered around the ring road that used to be the old city wall. its really pretty, it goes all the way around the old city and is surrounded by old buildings, including the pretty spectacular parliament building and the [View Full Entry]

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we made it to venice safely after our 30 hour ferry...so heres the breakdown. we arrived at the ferry terminal nice and early so that we could get on the ship early to get a cabin...to avoid sleeping on the floor. we got on the ferry and we bombarded by crazy greeks....they followed us around telling us that we weren't allowed in certain places because all we had were deck passage tickets...all we were trying to do was get to reception so that we could upgrade to a room....we finally made it to reception and they refused to help us, [View Full Entry]

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lets see...last time we wrote we were in naples about to hop on a boat for a daytrip to Capri. the island was AMAZING!! such natural beauty there, and not many tourists. we spent the whole day baking ourselves on the beach next to beautiful greenish blue water. it was a good day. then we took a 16 hour ferry to greece. we have been in athens for 3 days now...and we don't want to leave. we love it more than we imagined we would. our hostel is amazing...right under the acropolis and it has a rooftop bar where we [View Full Entry]

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OH BY THE WAY!! Europe » Italy » Napoli By Tara and Shay June 8th 2007 we forgot to mention....we saw the pope. TWICE :) once on the day that he almost got jumped...and once the day after when we went into st. peter's basilica. he was reading what we assumed to be the bible while people held it up for him...and little boys held candle sticks that they used to scratch their noses. [View Full Entry]

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so we finally found internet access in roma. but it suck...no usb connection to upload the many many many pictures that we have taken in the last week or so. sorry guys!! hopefully in naples...which is our next city! we arrived here on sunday. the train was pretty ghetto, but it got us here in one piece...or i guess two counting us separately :) our hotel is amazing thanks to mom! it is really close to the train station which equals not having to lug our heavy (and getting heavier) packs too far. Rome is amazing! just as i...tara...remember it [View Full Entry]

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we know we haven't updated in a while...so this is what has been going on... we went to florence after milano. it was amazing there!! we stayed there for 5 nights. 2 of the days we really stormy...thunder, lightening, massive amounts of rain. we actually felt like we were at home. we spent the first couple of days wandering around looking at stuff. the museums there are REALLY expensive, so we didn't do much of that there. BUT...we did go to the academia to see the david. pretty amazing...and just as i - tara - remembered it. shay was basically breathless [View Full Entry]

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