Well, i've been home for a week. Definitely miss Europe. But I now have a whole bunch more photos up. They can be found @ There are also 5 high quality photos at my deviantart. Which can be found at Lastly, In the blog labeled "41 days, and it has to come to an end" I wrote "The BatoBus took us to Pont Neuf which my dad claims means new bridge… Little does he know neuf means 9." I am not admitting defeat, Neuf does mean new. But neuf also means 9. So you decided who's wrong, Me or the French? [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday morning we had a little bit of a late start and by the time we arrived in town it was nearly noon. After a 45 minute wait we finally started our ascent of the Eiffel Tower. At the first stop the view was rather impressive, at the second it was incredible, if we had waited half an hour longer to take the elevator to the top I’m sure it would have been amazing! Had lunch at a Turkish place, where we all had interestingly good meals. Then off to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica where there was a great view of the [View Full Entry]

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So France has gotten much better. The first day was rather lame. Nobody spoke English, nothing was open, and the weather was terrible. But France is much better now. We drove through the Champagne Region was incredible, in BC when they grow grapes for wine they use a surprising amount of the land, but it is secluded from the town. In the Champagne region, grapes are everywhere; in between little houses and completely surrounding the roads and towns! That was Monday, where we also visited a Champagne Cave, as they are called here. The one we went to had a barrel [View Full Entry]

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Well, do to technical difficulties it has been almost a week since my last update, and their have been some huge changes in that week. I don't know the days we did things, just the order. So this entry will seam like one big runon paragraph. The day we left Gussenstadt we drove to Neuschwanstein. Which is the typical castle most of you think of when you think of a german castle. This is probably because Neuschwanstein is the castle that disney mimicked their castle on. On the way there we stopped at a summer luge which is almost a km [View Full Entry]

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Saturday: Today we spent the day in Ulm. Ulm is the birthplace of Albert Einstein, and is home to the worlds tallest church steeple. We climbed the 160 meters skyward to the top of the Ulmer Munster which is almost 700 years old. Because of all the Turkish people in Germany, there are as many Doner restaurants as there are Sushi Restaurants in Vancouver. So we ate donair for lunch… again. I’ve had it probably 10 times in the last few weeks! Walked some of the wall in Ulm then back to Gusenstadt where we are staying currently. Upon our return [View Full Entry]

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So I left off in texel, We spent an entire day touring that island. Which was interesting. There was lots to see on such a small island and it was a shame we only had one day to see it all. The day we left we drove across a 38 km dike. 25 years ago the dutch built it across one of their seas, and pumped out the water from behind it creating a new province. The lowest land is over 15m below sea level. After a long day driving we stopped in the german city of Wesel, where i had [View Full Entry]

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Hello All! Lots has changed since my last update. On Friday Dennis’ opas took us out for the morning. We saw a bunch of stuff, including a hydro damn that was built 90 years ago, and is only rock and brick. Even more impressive it was destroyed by a bomb in WWII and was repaired in 6 months. That afternoon Dennis and I were both packing. As I was leaving in the morning and he was off to Poland to go fishing. Subway for dinner that evening, and then I had to say goodbye to Dennis. Which was really hard to [View Full Entry]

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This post is going to be broken down day by day because there is so much to cover. Monday; Woke up early as we were driving to the North Sea. Packed up the van, picked up dennis' friend Nicole and then off. 350km further north we arrived in Wellhemhaven. It was pouring rain so we walked around the mall, then went for a late lunch at the McDrive. Which is what they call the drive through over here. Got lost on the way to the maritime musem. When we finally did arrive we checked out the collection of old WWII boats [View Full Entry]

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Friday was a rather chill day for Dennis and I. We slept in, which felt amazing. For lunch we biked to the bakery down the street and had fresh baked good and coffee :D. That afternoon we drove around and did some errands, dropped off a ticket for wednesdays match between Bayern and Dortmund at dennis' uncles house, went to go visit his oma, and then took it easy at home. That evening we went to the next towns Shutzenfest. Now i deffinetly didn't get this festival at all before, but i think i get it now. Well sorta; basically Shutzenfest [View Full Entry]

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Well I am currently just outside of dortmund staying with dennis. But i will fill everybody in on whats been going on in the last few days. On Tuesday Jonas, Fabian and I took the train to Nurnberg and went to go see the WWII museum. Which is housed in a building that is on the original site of the Nazi grounds, and I'm not sure if the next part is impressive or creepy. But none the less, the museum building was commisioned by Adolf Hitler himself, and was some sort of rally building during the nazi regime. Leaving the museum [View Full Entry]

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