http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/jadela17/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from jadela17 en-us Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:31:53 UTC Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:31:53 UTC VENICE ITALY Lisa and I arrived at our campgrounds in Venice on the 4th of July trust me I definitely was missing those barbeques and fireworks at home...but I was in Venice....which is so much better The campground was quite outside of the city and we arrived later in the evening...so we just headed to the bar to treat ourselves since it was the 4th. We stayed longer than intended and d http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-181478.html CINQUE TERRE ITALY Finally cinque terre with it's gorgeous rugged coastline and crazy hikes. Lisa and i arrived in monterosso the northernmost town thinking that our hostel was located here. Considering that when we booked our hostel hostelworld said it was in monterosso. To our dismay it was not....the hostel was located in a town called Biassa several kilometers from monterosso. We f http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Cinque-Terre/blog-181467.html TUSCANY ITALY Lisa and I spent four nights in the Tuscany region in Italy. The first two were spent at a campground outside of Grossetto a small city on the western coast of italy. Transportation to and from the campground was a bit pricy so we ended up staying at the campgrounds for both nights. We again stayed in a 2 person house tent a tent with literally enough space for the two cotli http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Tuscany/blog-181462.html ROME ITALY Lisa and I arrived in Rome on the 23rd. We chose to stay at a campground outside of the city due to it's extremely low cost accommodation. We stayed in a house tent which is a tent with two cots in it. Sadly it probably tops some of the accommodation we've had on this trip. The only problem was Rome was ungodly hot while we were there....so we went to bed late and woke up early http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-179982.html AMALFI COAST ITALY POSITANO Ah how gorgeous the town...how far away we were from it. haha...actually we planned on staying in Sorrento which is where our hostel said it was....well the name of it was Youth Hostel Sorrento...but actually it was in the town before sorrento sant agnello which was fine....except for the mile long hike...uphill...to get to it. At midnight because it took http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Campania/Amalfi/blog-178479.html Ah finally out of italy and finally finding cheap internet in austria GRYON SWITZERLAND Lisa and I headed to Gryon after the interlakenskydiving adventure. We stayed at the Chalet Martin a wonderful hostel full of many people from all over the world. Gryon is a tiny village in the Swiss Alps close to Bex with population 1000...i know...makes pulaski look huge. And the average age of http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Switzerland/South-West/Gryon/blog-178466.html INTERLAKEN So sometime on the 13th lisa and i arrived in Interlaken Switzerland....after over 12 hours on a train...we arrived at our hostel....in the pouring rain. The hostel we stayed at was called Funny Farm....and it was definitely a party hostel as are most hostels in interlaken considering it's an adventure town. So we made our way to the bar behind the hostel and it didn't take muc http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Switzerland/South-West/Interlaken/blog-173373.html Ah finally back to a computer...it's been so long. BARCELONA After our return from Morrocco Lisa and I ended up spending the night in the Madrid airport because our flight got in so late. Okay so we really didn't want to spend a night on accommodation because we were heading to Barcelona so early in the morning. The night we arrived we checked out Las Ramblas which are pedestrian street http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-173365.html Ah weve survived a week in Morocco which was a much harder than i had originally expected. Lisa and I began our trip in Marrakech on the 2nd after flying in from Madrid. We planned a full week here due to our preconceived notion that it would be quite difficult to get to the desert for some camel riding. Turns out this was not the case....so here goes.... MARRAKECH First arriving in Marra http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Morocco/Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz/Marrakech/blog-168111.html So im in lagos portugal...sitting at a bar....pints only 2.50 euros....with free internet...cant beat it The trek from dublin to lagos was a long one but well worth it. We couldnt find a hostel in dublin our last night stupid us we didnt plan ahead for a friday night in ireland so we slept in the airport instead...flew to porto portugal at 925am and arrived somewhere around http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Portugal/Algarve/Lagos/blog-163221.html So after our wonderful blarney castle experience Lisa and i planned on visiting the cliffs of moher however due to the high cost of getting there we decided to head to killarney and take a day trip to the dingle peninsula instead. Lisa got a little sick so we took it easy. the trip to the peninsula was nice but would have been awesome had the weather cooperated. I might as well have been in http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ireland/County-Kerry/Killarney/blog-163162.html May 22nd 2007 So we've finally made it to Ireland. We arrived in Dublin on the 20th....I must say Dublin was not as exciting as I'd pictured it to be. But i've never seen so many pregnant women in my life...let's just say those irishmen are spreading their seed ahhaha....and we also figured out how the term 'irish twin' came about....many women had a youngin' in a stroller and another on the http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Ireland/blog-161098.html Wow here we are in Edinburgh Scotland...on our fourth day of travel....and i'm FINALLY posting a blog. The internet was a bit too pricey at the hostel so lisa and i have finally made it to the edinburgh library where it's free 515516 London Lisa and I spent our first two days in the amazing and eventful yet extremely expensive city of London. We arrived around 10am from the states by t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-159755.html Alright here we are finally up on travelblog. Lisa and I are heading to Europe in eek only 40 days for a 10 week adventure to see as much of Europe as possible. We aim to visit 13 countries Britain Ireland Portugal Spain Morocco Italy Switzerland Austria Czech Republic Germany Netherlands Belgium and France. We're probably crazy for planning such a fast paced journey but we ho http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-York/Pulaski/blog-145298.html