I mostly slept on thelfight to Frankfurt. Or at least tried to sleep. It was fine with headphones in and a little music playing, but as is to be expected, not that comfortable for long periods of time. I also managed to enjoy a couple of episodes of Extras, a couple of in flight meals, and a couple of tiny wines. Customs in Frankfurt was fun. I approached the passport checkpoint.... No questions asked. Thanks! I love European customs. They seem to just get it. Or at least they don't have the intense paranoia that we're used to seeing. Oh, and [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so pretty much, I think myself and everyone I know should move to Montreal.... It's a REAL city... So for anyone reading this who would like some information on how to get yourself to Montreal, I've devised a simple three step process that should work pretty darned well. Step 1: Leave Edmonton This is key. Leaving Edmonton is pretty straightforward. Get on the skyshuttle, take it to the airport, get on a plane. Step 2: Land in Montreal This is probably the most difficult step, since you will need to get on the correct plane at the airport. So it [View Full Entry]

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Four months later, I can tell you that the adventure didn't stop when I got back from Europe. Even though I started working, the summer weekends were packed with activity. I went to Waterton Nationla Park with Vanessa (still one of my favourite places in the world), three weddings, the Creation Science Museum in Big Valley (hilarious), camped about four times, and went on a 1500km road trip (each way) with my roommates to Yellowknife for the August long weekend (just for kicks). AND I FINALLY finished my Europe blog! In going through my journal and reliving all of the experiences [View Full Entry]

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Well. This is it. The last stop on our grand adventure. One more night in Paris before we head home to Canada. Are we ready to go back? Yes and no. We've been away for two months, but there's a few years worth of things we haven't seen yet. Yet. I'll be back soon enough, and I'm going to make sure of it too... So how did our last day go? Well, we probably couldn't have asked for a more fitting conclusion to our European travels. It actually started the day before in the train station in Amsterdam where it took [View Full Entry]

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We left the non hustle and bustle of Luxembourg in favour of the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam. On the way, we stopped in the train station in Brussels which brought back some good memories from the very beginning of our trip, almost two months ago now. We also grabbed lunch and possibly our last Belgian beer of the trip. First stop in Amsterdam: The Red Light District. ... but it's not what you think! We were just looking for a place to sleep! ... and THAT'S not what you think either. The hostel that we booked happened to be right [View Full Entry]

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Have you ever stopped and thought about how terrible Guns and Roses lyrics are? Neil and I did, and it entertained us for days. "You know where you are baby? You're in the jungle. You're gonna die!" Terrible. Amsterdam is too far away from Gimmelwald to get there in a day so we had to break up our journey. Well, actually, it's more the lack of high speed rail running between the two places. So we decided to add another country to the list: Luxembourg. A small country, and from what we've learned on this trip, smaller seems to be better. [View Full Entry]

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For a while I wasn't sure if I should blog about this place, and then I considered lying and telling you it sucked. The reason: this place seems like a secret, and it might be a good idea to keep it that way (it isn't even in the Travelblog directory). It pretty much has the most dramatic and breath taking mountain scenery that I think I will ever see. After leaving Interlaken and taking a train, a bus, and a cable car up a steep ascent, we arrived at an elevation 1400m in a tiny village on the the side of [View Full Entry]

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So, if you didn't pick it up in the previous entry, the Swiss Alps are pretty breathtaking. It's great to be back in the mountains. Also, when we got back in Switzerland, the railway announcements were in German, Swiss German, Italian, French, and English. It was pretty wild. Also, when the French announcement was made, it was the first time we'd understood a language other than English in a couple of weeks, and it felt pretty good. Interlaken is a pretty small city that lives because of tourism. In the winter it's a hub for skiing, and in the summer there [View Full Entry]

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We spent a total of three nights in the Munich area, and all three nights were in different accommodations... Our train from Prague was unable to take us the whole way to Munich because of some track work being done in the Czech Republic near the German border. So, after taking a train part way, they loaded us on to buses for about half an hour to take us the rest of the way to the German border. Then we boarded another train that took us the rest of the way to Munich.... none of this is interesting. The interesting part [View Full Entry]

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