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Europe » Netherlands December 23rd 2012

Greatings! Today is the Eve of Christmas Eve. This draws the last full daybin Amsterdam. This marks the longest time period we have at any country, at 4 nights and 5 days ( except for the week and a half I'll be staying in Brno, Czech Republic which I'll be stayin with my Awesome friend Nick Bunzle who lives there! Our procrastination may prove to be aweful as we have delayed booking our train reservations to Munich tomorrow on Christmas eve. Since its an overnight train we need one and it might be fully booked and miht have to spend a few extra days in Amsterdam, which wouldn't be tbat bad! lol. Our new roommates that got into our hostel today arr from LA and said that they did the same procrastination and the next non ... read more
Tomatto anf Onion Dutch Pancake!
in the Anne Frank House
Epic Palace!

Europe » Netherlands » North Holland December 23rd 2012

Dear Diary, Dec 22nd 2012.: I am glad the world. Did not end o.n the. 21s because I had thee greatest time today! Emma' s. Family as nice enough to invite us over for Lunch and Dinner to experience a non- tourist look at eating genuine Dutch food with a Dutch family! We spent the whole day here in North Holland in the outskirts of Amsterdam. We took the. Trolley/bus thing. to meet Emma at her place, it was a very quick and convenient jurny that was only about 30 minutes with no transfers to the outskirts of Amsterdam. It was a little more run down of an area ane it was coolt only be surrounded by locals. It was fun trying to read the map on the transit when its all in Dutch! Lol. When ... read more
Eating at Emma's House!
Our directions to Emma's place!
The Birthday Girl!

Europe » Netherlands December 21st 2012

Captains Log -- December 21st 2012 (The End of the World) Today is the day the World ends. That really sucks, assuming it to be correct. Since I will be Experiancing it 9 Hours before you, I shall notify you Via Facebook at 12:01AM Dec 22nd that Amsterdam is not Destroyed if the world here continues. If i don' t post anything, assume the worst, that the World will be distroyed by a hurd of wild Elephants, this is, of coarse, the most likely senaro. We started the day by checking out of our first Hostel in Amsterdam, The Flying Pig. For just the night and morning I was there i really enjoyed it. I was in a room wwith 20 others, which was connected to another room of 20 people by an open door, so ... read more
The Vegas of Europe!
In an Underground Smoke Shop
At the Nightclub

Europe » Netherlands » Frisia December 20th 2012

Greengs from Amsterdam! Dec 20th 2012. it was like Alex and I were in th Amazing Race today, runnung throuh Londo with our backbabkstrying to meet a deadline to get first place in our compititiion. I'm typkng with my phone again on this entry so wihout spell check and using a ouch screen, my typing will once again look like a Retarted Falcon trying to type with its mighty Talons Anyway, we were flyin out of a different airport on the complete other side of town i Southend London, and were running throuh town tryining to find the right train. Acter many stops in the wrong dirrection and wih time running out, we found an above ground train hat led jus to the airport. It was an Adventure, we barely made it ith about 15 minutes ... read more
The Room
Accesories the Hostel Gives us to Use

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London December 19th 2012

Dear Dairy -- December 19th, 2012: So today I went to see something that I never thought I would ever in Person, STONEHENGE!!! It was simply one of the most Amazing sights that I have ever seen! It is quite remarkable to even fathom how those gigantic stones were moves over miles and then set up in a close to perfect mannor without any in depth math or any heavy duty machines to set them up. It unfortunately was raining pretty good, so many of my photos had water marks on the lenses that distorted my pictures :( But they were really good pictures regardless, and they will all be up on Facebook in not too long. It took 1 and a half hours to get there and we stayed for one hour. This is my ... read more
At the Natural History Museum!
My English Meal!
An Awesome Model Picture!  Lol.

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London December 18th 2012

To Whom may read this -- December 18th, 2012: I just want to Say right up front that I walked down the One and Only Abbie Road Today!!! Today has been possibly my most eventful day yet. After getting a complimentary breakfast that was pretty good, with a lot of coffee since I've slept maybe 1 and a half hours last night, we decided to go on a walking tour through London! One of the highlights in my pictures are all the zoomed in pictures I took of penises on statues! Lol. Just kidding, not a highlight, but entertaining non the less! I got to see Big Ben, one of those Red Telephone things, The Changing of the Guards, took a pictures with the Guards, saw Buckingham Palace, a Ton of Churches and amazing Buildings and ... read more
With the Un-moving Guards!
Cool Place!
Big Ben!

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London December 17th 2012

Cheers Fellow People and Stuff! December 17th 2012: Today we flew into London from Dublin, and I was surprised that we did not have to go through customs. We took the Underground to our Hostil, and our Hostil is pretty Amazing. It is four stories at the Palmers Swiss Cottage, and I'm staying in a room with 14 people. We got to the Hostel at about 5pm. Everyone here is very nice, their accents are cool, but not as cool as in Dublin. They have a pretty cozy bar area that most people hangout at when they're not in town, and leads to a beautiful patio that is coverd for most of it, and has an outdoor area for smoking. We found a local grocery store and I bought a sweet Bagette and Humus for less ... read more
Free Drinks with the Bartender!
Awesome People!
On the Underground Train

Europe » Ireland » County Dublin December 16th 2012

Dear People who read this: With my last day in Ireland, i would not be surprised if Dublin would be my favorite city. I am really sad to be leaving, i will really miss all the kick-ass accents, the really nice people who are super laid back and the beautiful city. I am been haven a lot of trouble typing these entries on my phone as i've been running into a lot of connection problems that have been taking a lot of time to type these out, as well as there is no spell correction and really hard to type on a touch screen so i will try to limit how many entries i put out in the future, maybe combining a couple of days. Anyways, with my last day we went on a walking tour ... read more
Christ Church
Trinity College
Last Night

Europe » Ireland » County Dublin December 15th 2012

Entry for today, Dec 15th 20012, Dublin Ireland Oh my gosh! Only day 2 in Ireland and we just had one of thee most Epic of days that will bw very hard to top. I dont' t even know where to begin!! I suppose the begining of the day is a good starting point, I'll try to be quicker than my last entry It first started by running into some Irish Ravers the second we walked out of our room. They were pretty cool and invited us to there room to Party. This was at 10am and said they were looking to be loud and get kicked out, so we went. There were about 15 Irish locals drinking and smoking in the room getting ready for a Rave that was going to happen at like 2am ... read more
At the Guiness Brewery
Pub Crawl
Rave at our Hostel Lobby

Europe » Ireland December 14th 2012

Captain's Log: Dec 14th, 2012: I made it to Dublin! I left the San Diego Airport at 10:30am Dec 13th, caught a cconecting flight at Chicago, and finally made it to the Dublin Airport at 8am Dec 14t I got to see the Sunset on the way to Chicago and the Sunrise on the plane to Dublin. The first plane had the most turbulance I've ever had on a plane, it was pretty intense! People were screaming and stuff, and i wanted to poop my pants, lol. First off I am typing this all on the touch screen of my newphone, so that makes me almost kind of cool and stuff. It also makes for a lot of mispellings and punctuations errors and that sucks. Anyway, so my roomate Alex isnt getting here until around 9PM, ... read more
Church




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