Blogs from Europe - page 10051

Hellooo from London, but just arrived back here now. Finally, in an english speaking country with a mostly-normal keyboard. Hooray. Since the last entry back in Germany we've travelled to Netherlands - the most craziest country on earth. We had a dutch bike ride on a real dutch bike - they look like granny bikes and they have no brakes which makes it an interesting ride around a city full of rivers, canals, people and posts at roughly groin height. We visited a clog making joint where we saw a bloke knock together a pair of clogs in under 5 mins, then we went to Eden, which is the cheese capital of europe. Yeah yeah, a peaceful country with lovely gardens, flowers, windmills, rivers, people and atmosphere, but we hadn't reached Amsterdam just yet. We settled ... read more

I'm going to let the pictures speak for themselves on this one. Chris and I had about 36 hours in Paris, so we just hit the biggest sights we could in quick succession. If the dollar ever recovers, I'd love to go back. Not before, though. The sticker shock almost killed us this time.... read more

First off, I'd like to apologize for taking so long to post an entry! It was my intention to post at least one per day, but... well, I'll explain later. So thanks for being patient, and I'm planning on doing one-a-day until I'm back! Whew! Okay, so on the first day of my trip (actually just the flight part), I went to see the new Indiana Jones movie with my friend Laura. It was fantastic, I'm really glad I went to see it, and was even more excited when they went to PERU! Nazca AND Cusco... I can't wait! We caught the 1pm show, my flight wasn't until 9:25pm, so I figured I should have plenty of time to get to the airport after the show. Looking back, I'm glad I planned for the worst ... read more

Friday 23rd May We had a bit of excitement (and a near disaster) in the morning. I was taking some last minute pictures of the B&B while Brigitte and Yves helped Marion back the car into the tiny lane. As I clambered into the car it rolled forward onto my shoe, trapping my foot. I yelled "Reverse, reverse!" and the wheel moved forward a millimetre. "No reverse!" I yelled. The car moved back releasing my shoe. I quickly clambered in checking my foot. Miracously, the car wheel had only trapped the upper leather of the shoe to the sole, somehow missing my toes by scant nanometres. After negotiating the narrow winding streets of Suze la Rousse we were back in the countryside of vineyards and terracotta villas. Some of the vineyards we passed may well be ... read more

When organising this trip, we noticed that the blog boards were full of every man and his dog expressing an opinion over which is better: Pompeii or Herculaneum. Well we had the time, so we decided to over-expose ourselves to ancient Italia and visit both in the same day. Maybe not the wisest plan, as it ended up not really a question of which site was ‘better’ as they were both really different. We visited Herculaneum in the early morning before the sun had really gotten some heat into it, and before the site had any other tourists in it. Apart from the odd school group or architecture students, the place was virtually deserted. It was amazing because all the buildings in Herculaneum are open to be explored and because the site is so much smaller ... read more