Blogs from Europe - page 11351

Not quite sure how things are in news dept as blog seems to have lost 5 entries!!Suffice it to say I'll start on the weekend before Sam's arrival and hope that there is not too much repetition!My warwound on the shin(ex. flatbacks) was really aching so on the 20th I decided to stay at hope for RandR so locked the car Fri night and did not go back to it till Sun am when I decided to check on my e-mails in Dobrich. Set off and because Dobrich rd is reasonable decided to play CD. - surprise no CD player only wires!! On parking in Dob and checking doors locked found the passenger lock floating free! no prizes for guessing how they got in. Next day went to Kapital to get help to make a statement ... read more

dag allemaal, door een fout van travelblog zijn onze verhaaltjes verdwenen. We hebben gekeken op travelblog en er zijn veel mensen die hetzelfde probleem hebben maar die zitten al in het buitenland. Hun dagboek en hun foto's zijn verdwenen. Dat is niet leuk voor ze!!!!! Maar nu we toch bezig zijn vertellen we dat we de tickets in ons handen hebben en we de transit visum van India hebben na heel veel gedoe en bureaucratie. Het is nog even voor ons dan vliegen we uit(hehe,endelijk). De meeste spullen zijn gekocht,dus we kunnen weg. We hebben een tijdje geleden ons tentje uitgeprobeerd en dat is goed gegaan want we hadden flink wat regen gehad die nacht.En we bleven droog(gelukkig maar!!). We zetten de route wel weer erop zodat iedereen mee kan genieten waar we ongeveer zitten,maar dat ... read more

This is the blog entry we wrote a few days ago. Fortunately, we had saved this as a draft email first, and so did not lose this one along with everything else we wrote during the big Travelblog.org meltdown. We are still in the process of finding a better blogging site, but in the meantime, here is the entry on Valencia. Enjoy... slow boat to Spain The 9-hour boat ride turned out to be better than we had expected. Instead of the endless frothy waves of seasickness we had expected (which is what we got in Greece), the Palma-Valencia ferry was nice and slow, and very steady. Overpriced salty Spanish sandwiches aside, the trip was actually quite enjoyable, with Sandra and I able to catch som Z's, do a few crosswords, and enjoy the vast expanse ... read more

Hey everyone, It has been quite an exciting few days for us here in Europe, but unfortunately it has also been a frustrating few days out in cyberspace. Many of you have let us know that you could no longer access the travelblog.org site to read our blog. In fact, travelblog.org itself was down from August 1-5. It's just come up today, and after reading the tech support forum, I can now tell you what has happened. Unfortunately, the story ain't pretty So apparently on the 1st, the one single (not backed-up) server that hosts the entire travelblog site got hit by a Denial-of-Service attack. The owner/admin of travelblog, in a state of panic, attempted to restart the mysql database. Unfortunately, he's not very good at mysql, used the wrong command and wiped out thousands of ... read more

You may have noticed but the blog has been down recently and we just got access this morning. It is 7:43 am in Zurich and we have a few minutes before hitting the road towards Grindewald and Lauterbrunnen so here is a quick play by play of what we've been up to the last few days. Wednesday - We visited Worms where Martin Luther was called on to recant his views that started the Protestant Reformation. We saw the Holy Trinity Reformation Memorial Church which was very modern but a neat little place. We headed on to Rothenburg which is a medieval village with cobbelstone streets and the whole bit. We spent the evening there in a gasthaus hotel and took a sunset stroll along the stone wall that surrounds the village. Thursday - This was ... read more