http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/noidiotsavant/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from noidiotsavant en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:32:52 +0000 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:32:52 +0000 we slept in. ugh. we had to. i think we got up about 10 actually that's what time i set the alarm for and it was only a few minutes before that when i actually got out of bed. johnny stayed in a few more minutes and i ran and took a shower and did all that great stuff. we made breakfast coffee and croissants maybe some cereal and a yoghurt... then grabbed our stuff for the day and ran to th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-402800.html Ack i got up at 740 but johnny didn't get up til a little late after i got out of the shower. by the time we were both done getting ready and out the door we hadn't made the bus number 64 to the vatican city in time and as we got over near the stop which we actually passed and had to get off and walk back it was after 900 when we were supposed to be there. o oh well instead of do http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Vatican-City/Vatican-City/blog-402216.html apparently the night before i was so tired i was in bed before johnn and while he was still up and doing something at the desk i got up out of bed tiptoed over to the door looked out mumbled something mumbled something else when johnny asked me what i was doing and if i needed anything and then trotted back tot he bed and got in again. i have no recollection of this. dammit that's ok http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Rome/blog-402214.html ooooh the bunks on the boat weren't half bad. johnny says he slept like a rock i wasn't so fortunate but not bad. i got up probably about 730 and wandered around the ship a bit barefoot i thought i had left my flipflops at fotis' house in athens and was not happy about that... i went downstairs to the lounge area and was quiet on account of all the people sleeping in random places. i was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Marche/Ancona/blog-402213.html today was an easy day. after staying up late with fotis his brother and friends we got home and went straight to bed almost. i woke up at 5 in the morning with a splitting headache as i always do when i have something to drink and downed my usual 6 to 8 glasses of water or until i almost burst and went back to bed. woke up fine. we got up got dressed quickly stuffed the rest of our stuff http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-400716.html oooooh my head is still spinning.... lol.we got up this morning and i swear i never even heard fotis come in last night although he says it was about 3 in the morn when he did so. i was in the living room on the sofa and johnny was in the bedroom this time i knew he would get better sleep in there cause it was quieter.... we got up and did our morning thing although i was a little louder th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-400611.html Omg my neck hurts. I got toasted today on our epic hike across athens and i'm paying for it. nothing like a good farmer's tan o we got up about 830 same as yesterday and probably same as tomorrow and were quiet as we could be cause when i went to bed at 230 the night before fotis and his brother were still up in their room. i stumbled out of bed and plugged the computer in for a few minut http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-400033.html updated itinerary peopleathens until 5.20leave athens train to patras ferry to brindisi italy5.21 arrive in brindisi train to roma5.22. arrive in roma5.25 leave in morning for daytrip to venice5.25 take night train to besanon5.26 arrive in besanon to stay with romain5.29 leave for amsterdam to stay with marc until the 31st6.02 leave for paris6.06 leave for caen normandy to stay with nico http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-399801.html We got up about 830 this morning and got going i had some stuff to organize and things to find johnny got right up and got dressed within 15 minutes. i offered to do calisthenics with him but he declined and said maybe later ha ha i knew it wasn't going to be any time at all before he had second thoughts about this exercise crap while on holiday pAnyhoo he got dressed in about 15 minu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-399745.html So the rest of the story.... the taxi driver that we eventually did accept a ride from charged us 12 euros instead of 35a nd knew where the thing was except he was either drunk or senile or drunk and senile. ha ha... he honked at random people and screamed almost ran over a few pedestrians and cursed in greek. when we finally got to where we were going he had to scream at a pizza deliver http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-399740.html This is the general itinerary for the trip VERY subject to changeDate Location51509 NOLA51609 Athens51709 Athens51809 Athens51909 Travel TrainFerry52009 Rome52109 Rome52209 Rome52309 Travel Train52409 Venice52509 Venice52609 Travel Train52709 Berlin52809 Berlin52909 Travel Train53009 Amsterdam53109 Amsterdam6109 Tra http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/New-Orleans/blog-364078.html Ok I'm a little late in creating this but hopefully I'll keep up with it from now on. Originally I wanted to travel this summer by myself but then got to thinking and changed my mind not about traveling but about doing it alone. Johnny my cousin from an aunt on my dad's side of the family is graduating in May from high school and so I came up with the idea of offering him some travel opt http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/New-Orleans/blog-364077.html