http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 00:11:56 BST Mon, 12 May 2008 00:11:56 BST Sunday May 11thWe went out to Wicklow and Glendoulough on a tour today. It was great to get out of town and see some wonderful greenery especially after the brown drought stricken fields of Australia. I have never seen such lush green. We had a walk in the National Park and walked out to the Lakes of Glendoulough past the ruins of St Kevin's Monastery. Lunch at a fancy hotel and then off to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-275184.html Saturday May 10thHad a full Irish breakfast with pudding. Martin asked for his favourite cheesecake. But it was black pudding and white pudding that arrived. We both tried it and it wasn't too bad. The sizzling weather did not eventuate. Perhaps these Dubliners are eternal optimists about the weather And its ablity to crack rocks. It reached 14C today and was drizzly but we think cool weath http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-275182.html Alrighty then time for the next installment of Luke and Jenni's adventures.Firstly a few things to get of my chest1 Cyclists don't wear helmets here Very dumb.2 The weather has been AMAZING. Today was totally amazing as per some of the photos.3 The culture here is to drink drink drink then drink a bit more. Keeping fit is extremely unlikely.4 4x4 quad bikes are street legal here. Very http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/blog-275178.html Tll ollaan jo kuin kotona Jaana ky Kauppahallissa ostoksilla ja kokkaa kaikenlaisia dieettiimme sopivia keitoksia... Eilen tehtiin Co au vin a la Montignac paellaa ja uunikasviksia. Kaikista tuli oikein onnistuneita. Huomenna sytetn kukkoa Mamalle ja Nagy Mamalle. Mammat saapuu klo 13... Maanantai on tll II Helluntaipiv ja siten Pyh. Kaikki on kiinniTnn oli Helluntai ja itienp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/Pest/blog-275177.html Oh how I love computers and new keyboards Friday 9th May I was allowed out on my very own as Maia and David were both at work First I went to work with Maia to see what goes on at the Bobath Centre and meet the staff there. A very interesting place and a lovely group of people. Spent some time with Rosie who does a similar job to the one I had when I started at Child Health Centre.Ran yes http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Bedfordshire/Luton/blog-275170.html Budapest. it looks good so far. i got up this here this morning and its really neat. i treked up this pretend mountain and took some wicked pics. unfortunately the web service isnt so great so ill up load later. so today is mothers day. happy mothers day linda lisa jeanine and jennifer. you are the best moms in the whole world. im sorry im not around to be with the kids for a while b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/Pest/blog-275168.html Friday May 9thWe woke to read in the Irish Standard that it will be a sizzling weekend with a right heat wave about to happen upon us....prepare your sunblock and iceblocks. They said it would be so hot that it would crack rocks and melt the road. We read on to discover that it should reach 22 degrees for the next couple of days.We get on up and out to a foggy morning about 15 C.Down to Wick http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/Dublin/blog-275167.html The pseudolandlady came by for a visit a few days ago when Hermina and Erica were sleeping in the salon. She came by to clean one of the open rooms to tidy up mop and such. Anyhow she needed help separating two buckets that were stuck tightly together. There I was pretending like I was trying to pull. The landlady forearms shaking with all of her tiny spanish might. I knew that if I pulled t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Granada/blog-275165.html BONNE FTE DES MRES4e journe de soleil de suite. Ici on se fait dire qursquoon est en plein t et qursquoil faut en profit parce que a ne dure pas. On est vraiment chanceux Londres presque tout est ferm le dimanche. On en profite donc pour ne pas prendre de billet de mtro. On srsquoest repos le matin on a visit les environs dans lrsquoaprsmidi. Le soir on a essayer http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/blog-275164.html Un deuxime rveil lrsquoauberge avec un djeuner tout aussi identique au premier. On est alors parti pour aller porter un dpt de rservation lrsquoappart. Comme on a payer pour lrsquoauberge jusqursquo lundi matin et qursquoon paye la chambre la semaine on prfre finir la semaine ici et dmnager juste lundi pm dans lrsquoappart. Alors comme preuve qursquoon le p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/blog-275163.html Adam and I officially became 'Aunt Miranda and Uncle Ham' when Maria and Luke proudly announced the birth of their first son little Liam at the end of January this year. I was at work in Belfast when the call came through to me that the little one had at last arrived and I spent a good while jumping up and down in the paediatric treatment room whooping with joy whilst coworkers looked on with http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Uppsala/blog-275158.html HelloSorry I have not written lately. The days sometimes go by too fast and it was really expensive for internet in Prague. So I have some catching up to do from my last entry. We had an awesome time in Berlin we had a couple busy days of wandering so the last day there we took it easy and hung out in a local park and sampled the various types of Czech beer. They had some different flavours like http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-275156.html I fly to New york at 10am from Manchester airport. I have nearly finished packing. Just putting some more tunes on my IPOD to fall asleep too....So excited doubt i will sleep well tonight ah well.....To all my friends and family i am leaving behind i will miss you To all the friends and new people im gonna meet... Hard luck here comes GavWord http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Manchester/Didsbury/blog-275152.html Caught a boat to Greenwich today where we had a lovely picnic and stroll around. Kydi and I went to the deli to buy stuff for the picnic was loving the cheese section so many cheeses to choose from. We got a Pepper brie and a Roquefort blue YUM Also got a prune wheel prunes and walnut which went very well with the blue cheese and some antipasta goods marinated artichoke eggplant semid http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/Greenwich/blog-275149.html Ok so before you get cranky you all know I was going to have to pull out that line at some point.Here you are the latest look. Might change again but at least now you will recognise me And yes I am hugging my teddy bear deal with it. He rocks and loves me no matter what. And he is orange.So there And yes there will be London blogging shortly but as a quick taster there have been vis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/blog-275147.html So.. in case youre frightened right now here they spell the name of the country Slovenija... a particular souvenir was written with the S somewhat obscured leading Simon to belive it actually said Love Ninja. Im not sure it acurately describes the country but I like it To get on with the story this country is BEAUTIFUL Very very story book fairytale castles mountains rivers gorgeous http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Slovenia/Ljubljana/Ljubljana/blog-275132.html First full day in Greece and it was busy. We went to the Monastiraki Market where you can get anything from furniture to fruit. Too bad we couldn't bring back a couple of antique tables We did find a 'few' things to buy. We went to the poet sandal maker. He is famous for his greek sandals and had a story written about him in the Calgary Herald which he has posted in his window. The sto http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-275131.html ... so about midday on Wednesday we breathlessly arrived in Vienna. Accidentally landed in a quite flash hotel due to the assistance of the grumpiest man in Austria at the airport info desk. PS Vienna airport is full of unattended luggage including a poor little cat in a cage that had a very big day. Discovered an excellent oldschool giant ferris wheel did an obligatory bus tour and ate http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-275127.html Lets throw another shrimp on the barbie. wait im in austria. sort of a stop over on the way to budapest. i got to have some vienna sauage and relly good chocolate cake. i saw the sights on an impromtu journey. i just went out for breakfast so i didnt bring my camera and took the metro to city centre. i had a really nice breakfast and on the way home met avery nice local and ended up talki http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Austria/Vienna-State/Vienna/blog-275126.html This is where the contiki tour part of our trip begins with 36 hours in Copenhagen. Another strange little BB a room in someones home complete with childrens toys all over the place. I had another excellent day of presenting and meeting we ate Vietnamese food and prepared for another early start to fly to Vienna. Simon on the other hand had a much more interesting day with a visit to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Copenhagen/blog-275125.html Ok so very behind....Sweden for nearly 2 weeks... so well make it dot points and I cant find the apostrophe on this keyboard so apologies for bad punctuation. 1 Fredrik Lottas partner submitted his PhD and had his public thesis defence a couple of days after we arrived and it was unbelievable 4 professors from different countries grilled him on his work to do with maths and physics and o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Stockholm/blog-275124.html Some photos from our little outing today to Kornik Castle. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Greater-Poland/blog-275123.html We made it A bit drowsy but smiley and appreciative all the same The gracious welcome was beyond words by the GSE committee complete with large Rotary flag and a cavalcade of vehicles It's gorgeous here in Vxj with sunburns to prove it...even though we still can't quite figure how to pronounce it Our flights went smoothly and were on time. We all look forward to a good night's rest http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Vaxjo/blog-275116.html Well it's our last day in Corfu and we are sad to leave... Bella Vista the place where we are staying was totally awesome. The people were so friendly and the beach was incredible not to mention the great tasting food We spent yesterday exploring the northern part of Corfu in a place called Sidari. It has a very special location called the Canal d'Amour which is a really cool rock formation http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-275101.html HI EveryoneWell we have arrived in Rome. It is so warm here. I am actually quite sunburnt at the moment damn French Riviera weather We spent the day looking around Rome today. We went to St Peter's Cathedral. It just so happened that the Pope was giving a service so I got to see him. He was heaps far away though. Feeling very Holy at the moment.My thoughts on Italy so far... not as beautiful http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-275093.html I started planning this trip more than nine months before we left. I worked and reworked the itinerary constantly. From the start we were certain that we wanted to visit Berlin Prague and Budapest. It was where we would go in between that took the most consideration. Once I had a fairly concrete plan I spent nearly every night up until our departure date booking and canceling our accommodati http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Budapest/Buda/blog-275091.html Tim and I decided to give up our Sunday and do the Oxfam walk today which as the name suggests is a walk to raise money for Oxfam. I know doing the walk doesn't really count as travelling but seeing as I am not going on holiday for a while I thought I would write a blog anywayThere has been a bit of a heatwave of late so we had an amazingly sunny day for our walk. It was 13 miles which was a nic http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cambridgeshire/Wimpole/blog-275090.html Hello everyoneThis was my last week in Edinburgh Irsquom surprised how fast time really does fly. This week was jam packed with activities. Last Saturday a group of us American students went on a pubcrawl on Rose Street. It was really fun. We went to several pubs including a karaoke pub in which Scottish people were belting out anything from Beatles to Elton John it was pretty funny. On Mon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/blog-275087.html