For hundreds of years people have been arguing about whether to call deep fried pieces of potato chips or french fries. Chips is the english version whilst French Fries is the American. Today you will finally know what to call them................ Neither. Belgium is the home of the deep fried potato and in Belgium they are known as Flemish Fries. So there you go you can now entertain all the people you know and correct those who are incorrect and if any one asks what a Flemish is, you can tell them its the Language they speak in Belgium not something [View Full Entry]

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The city of Amsterdam is incredibly beautiful and the canals that the city sits on give it a different sort of feeling. However after WWII the people of Amsterdam decided that they were sick of conservative right wing thinking and the facist laws of the nazis so they decided that they would move as far to the left as possible. By going to the far left the city of Amsterdam ensured that it was not the beauty of the city that attracted people but other things. In the 1970's the city deemed that all 'soft drugs' would be decriminalised and that [View Full Entry]

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We left the chaos and heat of Naples behind and headed to the order and cool mountain air of Switzerland. On the plane when the captain announced it would be 18 degrees in Geneva when we landed Triona burst out laughing as Peter was wearing shorts and a T-shirt still. Coming from the insanity of Naples it was actually nice to arrive somewhere that was ordered and everything worked. After getting to our accomodation we decided to take a wander around the town. Geneva is a gorgeous city situated on the banks of a beautiful lake and surrounded by green hills, [View Full Entry]

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In the movie Roman Holiday Audrey Hepburn rides a scooter around Rome. She does this because if she went to Naples she would be dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The south of Italy is the relaxed part of the country it is where people live "La Dolce Vita". This translates to "the sweet life". Naples however may be an exception to this Naples is the home of Pizza and also the home of chaotic insanity. No one stops for red lights when they are driving, no one stops for pedestrians when they are driving, no one pays any attention to the speed limit, no one [View Full Entry]

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In the famous movie Audrey Hepburn rides her scooter around and has a great time doing so, this being our second visit to Rome and still scooterless we had to settle for walking and catching the train. Last time we came to Rome we didn't get the chance to have a good look around the Vatican city, which is also the worlds smallest country so we headed straight there. The first thing that strikes you is the sheer size. St Peter's square at the front is a huge space and the basillica behind is equally impressive. We went straight in and [View Full Entry]

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Before we got to Florence we decided to make a pit stop in the culinary capital of Bologna. The city of Bologna is in the North of Italy and is the home of the famous Bolognase sauce, Lasagna and Tortellini. We arrived in the town in the middle of the day in the hottest month of the year to find that it was indeed hot and the walk to our accomodation was not much fun in the plus 35 degree heat. After wandering through the heat which we thought we had left behind we checked in and decided to brave it [View Full Entry]

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A must see stop in anyones itinerary around Europe is Venice, over 20 million people each year visit the city and to understand why you have to go yourself. When you arrive in Venice and leave the train station you immediately know where you are, just outside is the grand canal and buzzing up and down are all manner of boats and even a few gondala's. It is pretty hard to write a blog about venice as the city can't really be explained, you spend most of your time night and day just wandering through the alleys and passage ways. The [View Full Entry]

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After travelling through much of Eastern Europe we started into western europe proper with a trip to Vienna. We knew ahead of arriving that Austria was a fairly wealthy nation with a high standard of living but arriving in Vienna we quickly learnt all about it. Vienna isnt an overly expensive city but it is amazing. It is really beautiful with great architecture and lovely parks. The city centre is home to heaps of awesome buildings and even a palace. All these buildings are within a short walking distance of each other which means you just wander around and see all [View Full Entry]

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From Germany the sight of Berlin Obama we headed south to Prague. Prague has become one the main tourist hot spots of Europe. It is the usual dividing point between tourists seeing east and western Europe and is such a cool place that millions of tourists visit every year. Whe we arrived in Prague the first few hours of our time were spent sheltering from the heat, having been in the Baltic states and then coming to Berlin that was warm we were a bit suprised by the heat and decided to go out a bit later on. When we did [View Full Entry]

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If you here a report that the man who is not yet the US president, but many think he might be - if people will vote for him. And then if people do vote for him he has to get enough votes and then avoid being eaten by wild animals long enough to make it to the innauguration. Is coming your way run, run as fast as you can and then hide, hide as best you can. Cause in his wake there will be numerous cases of Obamamania striking and people everywhere will lose thier minds. For some unkown reason Barack [View Full Entry]

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