http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/zerogirl/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from zerogirl en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:59:45 BST Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:59:45 BST Allir peningar horfnir...svona nanast...en ef Patrick Leigh Fermor gat ferdast fotgangandi fra Rotterdam til Konstantinopel a 4 pundum a manudi hlyt eg ad geta komist fra Krakow til Amsterdam a 6000 kalli. Hann for reyndar sina ferd 1933 en sama prinsipp. Ekki panika of mikid og ekk segja besserwissernum fra eg nenni ekki ad hlusta a fyrirlestur akkurat nuna. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Lesser-Poland/Krakow/blog-298288.html Before you ask no I didn't actually go to Alexanderplatz. But I did see a bunch of cool stuff the trains the train stations the bars...and some historical stuff Hitler and Stalin wandering around they seemed pretty friendly considering.... I also went to a pool party and nearly lost my bikini to a hungry pony. Yes a pony. Yes my bikini. No I wasn't drunk. I had to spend about an hour http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-295752.html So here I am in beauti...scenic...drab and grey Keflavk. I've spent the last few hours at the airport mostly peoplewatching but also being bored meeting Jesse the couchsurfer running into Bjarki the former teacherish thingguy listening to him tell his 2 year old how 733Daddy once saw Tinna puke because she was sooo hung over733 et.c. Had Jesse taste Brennivn. He didn't like it. I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjanesbaer/blog-295747.html So... InterRail pass checkFlight reservation to Berlin checkA teensy backpack checkMoney ch...er...no no checks for that one.But hey at least I managed to get the Evil Forces of Taxation to agree not to take my entire salary but rather a small portion of it. Stupid tax people. It doesn't matter that the overused discount was so incredibly not my fault but rather my employers' si http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-287013.html So. Iceland is crap. Now is a good time to come though since the krona is at an alltime low What that means for us on the skerry is higher prices the US dollar is now at around 80 krona a few weeks ago it was around 60 so that's 30 right there. The euro is at 125 bfore it was around 90. Over 30 there. What this means for me is a huge fucking increase in travel costs this summer unless http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-258604.html I just bought a ticket...and thus altered my original plan. I will now gasp skip Roskilde Festival. That's right for the first time in six years I will miss Roskilde. I won't be going to Denmark at all. Instead in the interest of saving money and time I will fly directly to Berlin. I plan on hanging around eastern Germany for a bit seeing the important Holocaustrelated sights jumping to G http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-252338.html Yes it's that time of year again. The shortest day of the year is behind me 4 hours of sunlight thankyouverymuch and before me I can feel better days. Days of working my ass off I have a job now. Innit great planning scrimping and complaining about the costof everything. And after all that in a mere 180 days travelling Since last summer's little...excursion...didn't quite go as plann http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-230543.html I have a crush.I was struggling with myself the whole last day trying to find a loophole any excuse to stay. Secretly hoping the flight would be overbooked there would be a terrible storm they'd detain me. Anything. I stood in line for an hour and a half surreptitiously glancing at the Icelandair ticket office knowing that even if I did walk over there even if I could cancel the ticket the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-184201.html Amsterdam. The city. Only it doesn't feel like a city. Or rather it feels like a city in the same sense that Reykjavk feels like a city. It feels like a small town that somebody has forced into being a city. A smalltowcumcity in every respect the narrow streets the relaxed atmosphere the notquitesmalltownmentality. The feeling that even if you lived here all your life you still woul http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-181926.html Yes in A'dam there be some funkyass people I'm still staying with the same host who was kind enough to let me stay until monday or thursday since I'll be able to grab a plane home then. Note the deliberate use of the word able as opposed to the entirely different word willing. I don't want to go I still have to make a decision soon since the cheaper plane home leaves tomorrow and the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-181526.html I think it's time for one don't you 1 I will have a good time.2 I will live sparingly not that I have a choice.3 I will not grumble about item 2.4 I will not waste my time on touristy things.5 I will attempt to converse with the natives I feel like a colonial explorer now...great.6 I will learn at least one interesting fact about each place I visit.7 I will not panic if something g http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-171590.html It's OK. Everything except the whole money issue but I've accepted that has been resolved. I have the flightthingy the Festival ticket the tiny flashlight the sandals the small backpack Rick Steves would be proud the cheapass tent I can leave behind the sleeping bag I can donate the prepaid credit card and a passport. I also have a few places to stay thanks to the wonderful peopl http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-168409.html No really. It's in Norway look it up. I however am not in Norway not that I want to be nor am I anywhere I actually do want to be. I'm still at home. Now the horrible molepeople who thus far have been my only source of income have decided to show their true evil colours and are doing their darndest to ruin my plans. How Why by cutting off my funding Yay I swear if they cause me to mi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-164634.html Now my imaginary reader I know you must be tiring of my pretrip rants how sad is it that even in my imagination people hate me so I'll make this one short 091read long and filled with inappropriate humour093 I have about fifty days to plan this trip. That sucks. Sucks so much. I wish I only had three days. I haven't even bought my Roskilde ticket yet and they say they'll probably be http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-157353.html ...or a rough draft anyway.So. Right.Denmark incl. Roskilde Festival 29.06. 10.07.Hamburg CS sort of confirmed 10.07.11.07.Amsterdam CS pending 11.07. 13.07.BelgiumLuxembourg 13.07.15.07.Germany Holocaust stuff all the trimmings 15.07. wheneverPoland Czech Republic more emotional holocaustpornSlovakiaHungaryRomaniaBulgariaMacedoniaAlbaniaMaybe a quick peek to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-151878.html ...with 70 days to go and suddenly the Noogies announces she's not going. Great. So again it's just me. Fanfuckintastic. Well she's decided that she'd rather rent an apartment and she won't have enough money to go so instead through some convoluted logic has decided to go to Spain ad the UK instead. I don't really understand how she came to the conclusion that visiting two of Europe's mo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-150429.html It isn't really travel anxiety except in the sense that I'm anxious to get out of this place. What do you call it Travel lookingforwardtoyness Travel excitement Travel lack of sleep One one hand I'm really excited so much that my heart beats faster just thinking about it oh freedom sweet sweet freedom but then again I'm really dreading the financial aspect of it. You see saving mon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-140764.html So I was a bit drunk last nigt when I posted that Introspective crap but for the sake of integrity I won't delete it. See what I did there So anyway yesterday was Day One of overwhelming ohcrapI'mactuallygoingness as I booked the flight. Of course my feet were kept firmly on the ground by the really grumpy salesperson who acted like I was intruding on her precious phone time. And the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-134234.html Well I'm finally coming to terms with the fact that I may have to go it alone. It feels weird but than again maybe it's just what I need. I've never gone further than Hamburg on my own so I don't know if I'm nervous or excited. My mood changes every five minutes or so so I'm either really looking forward to going on my own or literally wetting myself at the very thought. I've been reading s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-134169.html This one is mainly to see if I can get pictures up here. From reading the blogs it seems that most people spend a few days trying to figure it out so it's time to see if they're dummies or if it's a system thing. Here goes nothingYay it worked So either the people are dummies or the computers in the rest of Europe are crap. I suspect the latter since this seemed simple enough. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Iceland/Southwest/Reykjav-k/blog-133052.html