Molly and Filip

June 25 We packed our things, stopped by the tourist office to buy some gifts and got our tickets to Paris. We left Tours at 10:30, and arrived in Paris around 12:45. We took the metro to our hotel. It was the worst metro experience yet, busy and hot. We had to wait for three trains at one station because the first two were too full for us to fit. Just about everything was closing for the afternoon so we grabbed lunch at Carrefour and went to Sacre Coeur. We had lunch overlooking Paris and listened to some street musicians. There were two guys playing guitars and singing cover songs in English and then a lady showed up and played two cover songs of Janis Joplin. They were really good. Sacre Coeur is one of the ... read more

June 18 It was really hard to wake up this morning since we only got 4 hours of sleep. Our train to Madrid was departing from the Seville train station at 6:45 am and we planned to leave the hotel at 6 am to have enough time to walk there. When we got down to the lobby and checked out, Carson and Jenny were still nowhere to be seen, so Molly went to knock on their door and tell them to hurry up. It turned out they were still sleeping. Molly told them they had 5 minutes to meet us downstairs. We were all downstairs at 6:20 and ready to go, so now we only had about 25 minutes to catch the train. We made it to the train station at the last minute and were ... read more

June 11 Our train left Avignon at 6am this morning, so we were up much earlier than I would have liked. We took the first train from Avignon to Montpellier with one of the many people that like to listen to their headphones so loud that others can hear it. The next train was from Montpellier all the way to Barcelona. This was our first time on one of the Spanish trains, and not a nice one. There was another loud person on this train too, but fortunately he wasn’t right next to us. He talked for a couple hours to the women sitting across from him, even though they spoke different languages and didn’t really understand him. Then when he finally decided to listen to music, he didn’t put the headphones in his ears, and ... read more

Wow it's been a while since we last blogged. We really don't have a better excuse than we've been too busy enjoying our time to write about it. Time to play catch up I guess. June 5 Like all travel days so far, we got up early this morning, packed our things, and headed to the train station. We went over to Monterosso again because that’s where the Intercity train that took us to Genoa stopped at. We had about two hours in Monterosso, which I used to get a light breakfast at a restaurant on the beach. We boarded our train to Genoa, where we had to transfer to another train to Ventimiglia, a small town on the French-Italian border. We met a nice family from Virginia. They were traveling around Europe and their next ... read more

May 30 The train from Rome to Florence was pretty crowded. The trip took about 3 hours and we got to Florence before 2 pm. When we arrived to Florence we went directly to our hotel - B&B Bonsignori. The B&B was one of the highlights of our stay in Florence. It is located across the river from most of the main attractions, but still in the historic part of town (built 400 or 500 years ago). The B&B was in an apartment on the second floor. Two rooms in the apartment were turned into guest rooms with bathrooms and the other part was the owner’s apartment. When we showed up, we were greeted by Elizabetta, the owner, with her two little kids. She was really friendly, explained everything to us, answered all of our questions, ... read more