http://www.travelblog.org/ Live Travel Journals, Diaries and Photos from real Travellers en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 22:29:06 BST Fri, 09 May 2008 22:29:06 BST We rolled in2 Las Vegas about 530 a.m and were very releived to get off the fuckin coach. Travellin long distances on Greyhound sucks. There r people constantly sniffin... to the point where i wanna just say BLOW UR GODDAMN NOSE But as they probably carry knives i bit my tongue. The first part wasn't to bad crossin through New Mexico and Arizona seein those big old cactuses but as soon as http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-274577.html Well its been a while and i'm sorry for all my readers and i'm missin a couple of blogs from the last couple of days in Orleans and the 30 hour train journey from Orleans to El Paso Texas. But don't worry i've wrote em in my diary so i'll try and bang em up on here at some point.Anyways got into El Paso early evenin and got a lift from the station to our hostel where much confusion did commence. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/El-Paso/blog-274572.html La vie Londreshellip quelle joie Bon alors pour commencer dpart avec zoom le 7 mai 23h00 tout va bien. On est super chanceux parce qursquoon a 3 bancs nous 2hellip. Par contre il fait froid tout le vol et si on veux des couvertures crsquoest 6 CanhellipOn arrive lrsquoheure prvue Londres et on attend 1 heures pour sortir des borders. Moi jrsquoai eu aucun pr http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/London/blog-274567.html Well we are back home now. We did not get a chance to write about Naples and the Amalfi Coast before we left but we will try to post a bit tomorrow or Sunday. See everyone soon. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Timmins/blog-274566.html Well we made it to Nicaragua. Leftie central. About 9 buses 2 boats 2 countries bad bad BAD accomoations and now the beach. Result. Sort of....we came here instead of El Salvador via Copan Ruinas in Honduras with the intention of going back through El Salvador. I have to say 15 to get into Copan ruins and i was muchly underwhelmed considering the bigger and more atmospheric ones in Mex http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/San-Juan-Del-Sur/blog-274562.html Day 16 Prague to BerlinAnother travel day. I didnrsquot fully appreciate the distances between countries in Europe until this tour. The travel days are getting tougher and tougher. Initially we were full of cheer but as the bus gets sicker and the hangovers build up the long drives are becoming quite difficult. Most mornings are very quiet as the vast majority of the bus is asleep. This morni http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-274560.html So I finally finished exams and classes in BA came out with a B average and my GPA didnt go down which I cant complain about since I was studying abroad. Victoria another girl from the CofC program decided last minute to travel with me So now I have company with my grandparents and parents are happy about We flew out of BA on the same day everyone else in our group flew home we just left b http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Santa-Catarina/Florian-polis/blog-274559.html Ok. Las 10 hrs de avion no fueron nada interesantes. Me decepcione un poquito porque el avion no tenia pantallita en cada lugar... aaah... x eso me fui en KLM asi que recurri al plan B sleeping pills. Dormi y dormi y dormi... me desperte y estaban recogiendo la comida. AAAAAAA jajaja nada me salia bien asi que como entre dormida y despierta mente la madre y segui durmiendo. Llegue a Amsterdam http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-274557.html Continuing our tour of Nova Scotia we drove the coast of Cape Breton on the Cabot Trail. the scenery was stunning. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Nova-Scotia/Cape-Breton/Cabot-Trail/blog-274556.html It seems like there is once a year this big parade with all the dancing groups from Cusco and surroundings performing and I ran right into it how lucky. The costums are crazy you can find all kinds of colors and materials although bright and plastic is prevailing. My friends tried to make me embarrassed by asking every one to take pictures with me. All in all it was fascinating to see the who http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/Cusco/blog-274554.html Peggy's Cove is a lovely little quaint town with a lighthouse on the rocks. In the lighthouse is a Post Office where they will stamp a letter or a postcard with a lighthouse post mark. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Nova-Scotia/Peggy--s-Cove/blog-274553.html Hello from Athens or as the Greeks like to say Giasas I arrived here a couple days ago and met up with one of my good friends Thea from Barca. We hit up one of the nearby islands for a day and then did a 7 hour walking tour of Athens today. We were exxxhausted but it was so great to see the acropolis and other greek and roman ruins. Tomorrow morning I leave for a week on the island of Santo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/blog-274549.html Today we spent the day at the Jewish Museum which is not one building but rather several synagogues a cemetery and another building. I took notes while the tour guide was talkinghellip I found out some pretty interesting stuff First in 1215 the pope declared that the Jews were slaves and they should have to wear yellow the color of treason. This is why Hitler made them wear yellow stars. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/North/Prague/blog-274548.html Me voici dans une des grandes vills du Paraguay. Voici un appercu de la ville. Dans cette ville il m est arrive que des merdes. j ai rencontrer Ramon le PD du coin et j ai mis 3 jours avant de le comprendre. Je me suis fais raqueter 2 euros dans les toilett d un bar boite pourrave par un drogue. j ai faillis faire la manche a cause de ma banquiere. Sinon j ai fais une soiree sympatique avec les je http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/blog-274546.html Madrid Espana We managed to get back to downtown Madrid and used the computer internet store. Then we headed for the train station to get tickets to Toledo however our ticket number was 385 and the number called was 157 it was going to be a wait. So I took off to get tickets for Museo del Prado while Bob waited. When I returned 40 minutes later he had only moved up the line 20 to so http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-274545.html Monday 28 April Taganrog to Rostov on the Don 96 kmExcellent breakfast. Late start 12 noon. Got a bus into town with Alfred Muller who had a map and walked round. Nothing much to see. A port rather tatty park long treelined streets like all the towns we see here. Found a big supermarket and got some goodies. Changed some dollars at a bank. There were a lot of shops selling quite s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Centre/Rostov/blog-274544.html Me voici en transite a Filadelfia ou je dois attendre 20h pour prendre un bus et me rendre a la ville frontiere. Cette ville est comme une colonnie car il y a enormement de blanc Allemand. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/blog-274543.html ber den Wolken...From the start. I left Germany on the 8th of April in evening with stopovers in Madrid Santiago de Chile und Lima. In Lima I had to hurry because I only had 40 minutes to change airplanes. The airline confirmed that I wouldnt need to claim my luggage and check it in again at the counter in Lima but an elder man at immigrations smiled at me and said Amor si que tienes recoger http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Cusco/Cusco/Cusco/blog-274542.html I got up this morning and checked out Topkapi Palace in Istanbul the one site that I wasnt able to get to in the previous days. It was the Sutan's castle and was built around the 13th century and was quite pretty. It was a cool morning and after I checked out the palace it started to rain. I was glad that I was able to check out the palace and it didn't matter because I had booked an afternoo http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Canakkale/blog-274541.html Present Location Sevilla Spain Back to Madrid we are now experts on the Metro and know how to switch train lines and find different locations Madrid Spain's capital city is situated close to the geographic center of the country. Today is another walking day. First down the Calle Mayor to the Plaza Mayor and some many grand shops along the way. We visited a leathergood store and made so http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/blog-274540.html As of today I am officially done with my junior year of college and I am now on summer vacation like this whole semester hasnrsquot been vacation. I canrsquot believe how fast this semester has gone I also canrsquot believe how amazing this semester has been. I honestly canrsquot imagine a better study abroad program and I feel lucky to have been able to go on it. I thought about doing http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Ecuador/blog-274539.html Sunday 20 April OdessaExcellent breakfast including kefir to drink and sweet cheese pancakes. Did a bit of work on my bike then went on a guided walking tour of Odessa guide was a nice girl called Natalia. Saw some buildings and the very fine opera house. She said the town was onoy built 215 years ago. It has lots of very fine treellned boulevards and green parks. We went down to the por http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Centre/Rostov/blog-274538.html We went for a drive around the countryside this morning. Boy therersquos lots of stones in Ireland. Stones and sheep. We drove towards The Cliffs of Moher to have a look. As wersquove found out everywhere in Ireland they want to charge a small fortune to have a look at any thing. 8euro 14 to park the car and then we would have had to buy a ticket to look out over the cliffs. No way. Ireland http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Clare/Cliffs-of-Moher/blog-274535.html Ce pays est l un des plus plat du monde Au sud on retrouve la terre rouge du laos ou du Cambodge. Au nord ouest c est une terre poussiereuse et balnche. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Paraguay/blog-274534.html Wednesday 16 April Slobozia to Braila 115 km. Not a very interesting day. Long straight roads huge endless fields some ploughed and some with crops. Yellow fields of rape as far as the eye can see. At Braila a reception at the town hall dinner at a restaurant 7 km away and slept in a gym. Quite a good one hot showers.Thursday 17 April Braila to Albota de Jos Moldavia 122 km.Went http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-274531.html