So we arrived back home late last night.. had a great trip, but it's also great to be back home. More on that later.. But we've been meaning for a while now to answer some of your questions, so now that we have unlimited internet access, felt we should tackle them first: Renjith, yes, we went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa. However, it is really not that impressive, particularly compared to the painting they have directly opposite - a huge wall-sized painting by Veronese that is really breathtaking. It's the 'marriage at cana', look it up on the [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in San Fran on friday and it was chucking it down. But we weren't going to let a bit of water stop the fun and games. We found our Hostel which is very nice, pretty basic rooms but what more do you need than a bed and a bathroom? The first night was great, me, Lisa and Frankie went for some food and found a bar where Andy and Mel could meet us. When they arrived it was catch up time, we haven't seen them for nearly a year so we had plenty to talk about. Talk turned to [View Full Entry]

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Endelig! Igår eftermiddag fik vi vores bagage tilbage, eller noget af den. Vi fik to kufferter men der manglede Christians rygsæk. Så klokken midnat ringede de nede fra receptionen og sagde at rygsækken var kommet. Golden Gate Bridge er jo helt fantastik og idag gik vi på den, i stedet for at bare se på den på afstand. Man føler sig som en myre når man går på den. Den er bare så stor! Vi har taget en masse billeder og på de fleste er den med. Vi børn blev sultne så vi måtte jo finde noget mad. Jeg havde set [View Full Entry]

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Hi, I thought it's about time I finished up with our Californian Adventure and manage to move on to some other more interesting parts of the US but this journal entry will just be short to cap off a few things we did before we made the journey east towards Utah and Colorado which is where we're at now... Colorado until Friday actually and then a weekend in Vegas which im sure will be beyond interesting (non sarcasm!) ... it'll be a blast. Last Journal ended up with us being at the Hostel for our 2nd visit there, the reason we [View Full Entry]

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'If you're going to San Francisco...' Okay.... so after a gruelling ten hour flight, feeling hung over (still), the excitment kicked in, our travelling escapade beginns..proper mind! San Francisco is a vibrant city, block after block of cafes, trendy sushi bars, jazz/blues joints, funky restaurants, a massive gay/lesbo society, strip clubs, fast food (everywhere), and Amercians! On fist impressions we like this place! Our hostel is called Green Tortiose and is situated right in the red light zone..oh yes..start as we mean to go on! It's a crazy place, with a massive co [View Full Entry]

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Couldn't download from Rome; camera died, computer died, then I couldn't log in to the blog. Hopefully the Asia trip will work out better. [View Full Entry]

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I can't believe how wonderful we are! Our mothers will be brimming with pride! We had a day of being healthy, organisey and some more healthy and then a little helpful, and failed to indulge in anything morally questionable, other than possibly Doritos...that orange dye can't be ethically sound. We started off by getting up only quarter of an hour or so after our alarm this morning, the constant and unwavering bagel was again our breakfast companion. Although Juliet had marmalade instead of jam on hers today in a bid for extra vitamin C, bravo! Jenny, after drinking lots of water [View Full Entry]

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Another crazy full day in San Francisco....I could get used to these bagels with cream cheese and jam for breakfast, yum! We rounded out our diet for the day with pizza for lunch, leftover chinese takeaways for dinner and irish coffee for dessert....wow tomorrow its salad and water for me! Having said that, I think we can be excused. We spent over 5 hours solidly walking and made further use of San Francisco's fantastic bus network, which we found gets a little more interesting on Sundays. Alright I'll give you some chronological order here, much as I enjoy recounting my life [View Full Entry]

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disclaimer: I will not be held responsible for any damage caused by you staring at the screen reading this monster of a journal entry. I tell you know it's gonna be huge! I bet I wont even finish it all today. Some quick notes: The pics I upload have no actual "order" like, I cannot put them next to specific text so that it looks pretty and makes sense, however I can manually insert smaller pics by hyperlinking (ie: the one from santa barbara in the last entry) but then you dont get the cool border and title/caption, so it's a [View Full Entry]

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It's getting harder and harder to get up in the mornings - but then again, what's the point of being here and not experiencing the local life? That was the rationalle (after the group of us all saw Karine off on the bus headed for LA - our group is shrinking!) for Saturday night's trip to a funky wee bar in the Mission District, where all the trendy nightspots are. Thankfully there was a large couch covered with cushions, which the girls made full use of, laughing at the tired guys sitting across from us on a bench. Loved the 80's [View Full Entry]

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