Blogs from Europe - page 11342

Hello Everyone! So I´m going to try finishing off my travels in Poland in this blog. So I was in Sosnowiec, staying with Martin´s grandma who is such a sweet, little lady. She fed Martin, Ola and I so well and with such good food!! When we arrived at her place we went to see her little garden which is pronounced j-ow-ka. I can´t remember the Polish spelling at the moment. It was really neat! Many people who live in Poland have these little gardens because they either live in apartment buildings or they do not have a yard next to their home. So there is an area of land that is divided up for each family to plant their garden. People plant everything in their garden from beautiful flowers to vegetables, trees and fruits! It ... read more

When in Rome, do as the Romans do? Kristian and I pondered about this saying the whole time we spent in Rome, looking around us wondering what exactly it was that the Romans do to inspire such a saying. It turns out, thanks to Kristian’s post-travel research, that it was just some discussion among priests about proper fasting behaviour in Italy’s different cities that inspired our modern adage. Not as interesting a story as I was hoping! So we left Venice and boarded the plane for Rome. In all honesty, it was a half-hearted move for the both of us. Before we even landed in Rome we were wishing we’d done the holiday the other way around. After spending time in such an amazing place like Venice, we couldn’t imagine that a plain old city with ... read more

After getting back to Edinburgh Tuesday was spent doing a bunch of blog entries at an internet cafe while Heather and Jesse did another bunch of errands. We were up and at it fairly early on Wednesday 'cause we had a flight to catch to Amsterdam and we had to return the rental car on the way. Things were seeming to be going nicely, thinking of being at the airport about 8:00AM for our 10:00AM flight, when I just happened to check the paperwork for our EasyJet flight and boy, did things hurry up!! The flight was actually scheduled to arrive in Amsterdam about 10 and the departure was 8:50AM. So much for thinking we were doing well and going to have an easy couple hours at the Edinburgh airport to have breakfast before our flight. ... read more

Jhola At least we think that is how it is spelt. we are not actualy in san sebastian however we did pass there in a rainstorm and it was a lovely spot. we stayed long enough to spend abit of time on the beach and a wander around the streets. gorgeous. on the same day we headed to st jean de luz which was also fantastic. now we are in bilbao for three nights. have just explored the guggenheim museum what an amazing building and have partaken of our first tapas yum yum. our next few days are going to be relaxing ones with a beach theme in mind so we are hoping for good weather all round, we have been lucky so far and hopefully that will continue! Adios for now The travellers ... read more

Just a very short post to tell you that we are back in Koblenz, until August 14th. Sunday, we are making a nice little day trip down to Heidelberg to see Juliana, my close friend and roommate of 3 years from college. She lives in Germany working with a youth group on a military base in Ramstein. Then, we will be heading for Paris to celebrate our anniversary and to say, "Au revoir!" to Europe. We fly home on August 19th. Chet will probably post a blog sometime today.=) K... read more