Here we are, sitting on a train on our way to Roma!!! It'll be a long day of trains since we've had to transfer a few times. It seems like a lot of ticket offices don't really know what they're talking about and we're talked to travellers who are all being told different things. For example we were told we couldn't buy our tickets all the way to Rome since we were in France and switching in an Italian town. We talked to people who bought tickets from Florence to Rome! So we show up at the station hoping there is room on the soonest train to Rome and we got lucky! And we're pleasantly suprised that the train isn't the crapbox train we've had the last few travels, and we're heard italian trains are terrible! ... read more

holy moly!!!! It's tuesday morning and we're on a train headed for Montpellier. a shitty old train with no tvs and looks so ghetto it's scary!! we need to connect to nice through montellier and that trip alone is 5.5 hours, not including montpellier to nice. frick this is going to be a long ride especially since big dur (my ipod) is low on life *sad face*. on the upside, you all get to hear about our time in spain! Lets rewind 12 days.....man i suck at keeping this blog timely! Madrid. freaking fantastic! i left off that we were meeting up with kristen and grace from virginia...it took us so long to find a place to eat and they were so hungry and broke that they ended up getting burgers from burger king! yeah....there are ... read more

Hello from brussels! Actually, we're just about to leave Brussels on our way to Paris on our eurostar fast train!! Ok, I've gotta think back to where I left off last time, in Amsterdam I think only on our second day or so. It seems like a while ago now! Alright...well our hostel lets your rent bikes to get a real feel of Amsterdam from the locals perspective. So for a day we rode these bright yellow rental bikes around town. Vondelpark was one of our first stops, just this big park in the middle of the city. I'm quiete directionally challenged so Alyx is the one who leads us around haha. Unfortunately she lost her bearings for a bit and was leading us around town not really knowing where we were going. She ended up ... read more