http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/megandchris/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from megandchris en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:26:46 +0000 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:26:46 +0000 hola from the gang in CUBA. Well we're here in Cuba drinking free drinks of all sorts soking in the sun and making bus trips to la Habana. However it was a Meg and Chris way to get here. I'll start with our trip from North Bay to Barrie to Toronto to Cuba all in the same nightmorning. So Meg and I got a late start out of North Bay and ended up leaving at around 11 pm to try and get to Barrie http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cuba/Oeste/Varadero/blog-373942.html Hey everyone.. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year.It's that time again Meg and I are off on another adventure. This time to the island of CUBA. So we will update with pictures and adventures just like always. I hope that you guys get involved with comments like usual. Now I bet you're all wondering how we came up with this decision Well we were in Barrie this past weekend fo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/North-Bay/blog-372728.html greetings from the scottish landwe are less than a fortnight from christmas and our trip back over the pond is quickly approaching. I've gotta tell you travelling is exhausting Chris and I grabbed a hotel down the street from my sistah's rez and so we have become quite content spending the evenings in our room order a movie read cards...quite luxurious actually. yesterday we went to the 'Ed http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-353956.html some highland pictures http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-353734.html good day friends and familywe are safe in edinburgh sleeping on my sister's floorchris and i attempting to share a single bed matress. our backs and necks hurt but it is free and i can hug and kiss my sistah every moment of the day i could not be happier yesterday was our first full day here in the land of scot and chris and I began a serious holidaying sleeping regiment. since we are going http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-352405.html Blog coming soon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-352258.html What a dayWe started out our first full day in London with one of the double decker bus tours. There was tons of traffic today as there was stuff going on with parliment. But we made our way slowly over towards the London Bridge Tower Bridge London Tower Big Ben The Eye over to Hyde Park and back to our start. That's a quick version on it as that wasn't the most memorable parts of our da http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Chiswick/blog-351042.html bonjourso eventhough our blog says london which we arrived in today this blog is about our parisian travels. so yesterday my sistah chris and I took the metro out to Versailles to visit with Marie Antoinette. However when we got there there was a severe lack of tourists hogging our photo opts which unfortunately ended up being because it is closed on Mondays quite sad it was that we could http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/Chiswick/blog-350742.html So its been a while since a real blog post so here's one to make up for it. Since you heard from us last we were leaving Bern for Paris. We made our way by train on Thursday and got into Paris in the afternoon headed to our hostel then to try and find something to eat. Lets say we were spoiled in Italy. Most restaurants here are open 123 then close until 7 for dinner. So our first meal in P http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-350025.html okie here are more pictures http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-349462.html hope this worksmore to come later http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-349320.html Sorry everyone the place where we were trying to upload the pictures at was taking way too long. We will try and post them asap. We are off to Paris tomorrow and are looking forward to it. We did some walking around today but nothing too exciting happened. Bern wasnt what we expected but we enjoyed the change of pace to recharge. Next time you hear from us well be typing from below the Eiffel http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Berne/blog-348871.html okay not heat HEART. that was quite creppy mom and sue allen i must admit. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Berne/blog-348726.html so today was our first full day here in Berne sweeetserland. it is much different than our other host cities. it is ridiculus expensive. we went to the cheapest place that all the books and hostel recommend a self serve caf style place 33 sfr max it should have been 20. i had quite the hankering for some thai food and since there is one next to our hostel i took a look at the menu 20 sfr for http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Berne/blog-348588.html These are a few of my favourite things to look forward to tomorrow. Hello everyoneHere were are in Bern Switzerland the birth place of the Toblerone bar. Meg and I had a long but beautiful trip through the Swiss Alps today and what a site. The mountains were higher and whiter then they were in Austria. Speaking of Austria we spent our last day in Salzburg yesterday touring another house of Mo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-West/Berne/blog-348267.html when you read you begin with ABC. when you travel you begin with chris beth megso salzburgian we are. my sistah arrived last night and oh what a bumpy road that was she was supposed to arrive at 135pm however instead her flight kept saying next info 200 230 300... oh so frustrating. and when finally i thought our reunion was near CANCELED the arrivals said. so i dashed to the phone http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-347567.html Hello from Austria eveyone.Meg is up stairs still lazing around as we wait for the time to go pick up her sister Beth. This means that I finally get to write another blog. Well our last moments in Italy were memorable. We started off the day waking up at 8AM which meant we had 45 minutes to finish packing everything and get to the trainstation on the other side of Venice. We made our way zigg http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Salzburg-State/Salzburg/blog-347168.html bonjournoso today is our last day as italians i must admit my heart is a little sad. so no blog yesterday and that would because we did not have the day in venezia we wished for. rather we spent the day in the venice ophedale hospital. no emergenices chris' cough was getting worse and he had been in bed for a couple days so hospital it was. so let me paint a quick picture. maps in venice are http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-346637.html bonjourno bonjournoso today we are temporary citizens of Venezia. It is 530pm here chris is sleeping off his cold our room does not have the tv we became accustomed to so i am out here writing you. the hostel we are staying at the next 3 nights is a venice museum weird name right well when you step in here man oh man do you get why it's called a museum we are sleeping in a building tha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice/blog-345959.html bonjourno amicos famigliaoh what a glorious day was bestowed upon us here in firenze we're talking short sleeves and sunglasses oh heaven chris has got quite the cold so he was a prisoner of the hostel. so i went out for a jaunt on my own. i walked the markets ate gorgeous pear pastires and basked in the sun on the steps of Santa Maria Nuvella basked until the gypsy women came. they scare http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-345635.html