Blogs from Europe - page 11921

Greetings all. For those of you who don't know I've finally returned to the wonderful state of living that is a proper overseas holiday. This holdiay consists of a month travelling around Europe, primarily in the Mediterranean. The first week I'm staying in cheap hostels and with relatives. The last three weeks I'm staying in five star hotels and on the cruise ship the Grand Princess. Which will I prefer, hostels or luxury? Only time will tell . . . Before we go further with this blog I'll quickly explain a few things. I make no guarantees that any stories/people/events/claims/photos that contained herein are in any way factual or fictional. I'm on holiday for a month, which means I plan to spend as little time in front of a computer and as much time being ... read more

Buon Giorno. I'm here back at the good ol' Syracuse University computer lab and I decided to update all of you on my final days here in Europe, though I will be home in only a day and a few hours. Exciting! It seems I left you way back in Venice. It seems so long ago. I suppose I'll start at Cinque-Terre... Cinque-Terre is a national park on the northern coast. They are 5 small fishing villages with many, many hiking trails throughout the cliffs. We spent a good 3 days hiking various trails, and the last day walking through all 5 towns in succession. Luckily the Mediterranean Sea was waiting for me at the end of that very up and down hill hot-hot-hot hike. I got to swim in its delicious water for the first ... read more

Hiking TripThe Conley Family Greetings from beautiful Sevilla, where the skies are (almost) always sunny and the children (at least our's) are definitely above average. Some highlights from the last few days. We had a great visit over the weekend from Angie's friend Rebecca, who lives and works in London. I took the kids on a hiking trip on Saturday to give Angie some girl time. The kids and I had lots of fun: we took a two-hour train ride, hiked in and through a stream where we caught tadpoles and Tommy fashioned a very effective looking fish spear; and I introduced them to hitch-hiking as we caught a ride with a nice couple in a pick-up truck up 8 kms of a steep mountain rode to a nearby village. The kids picked wildflowers for Mother's ... read more

Evening all! This is just a test blog to make sure everyone can read this entry, I'll using this site for a travel blog place thingy, you should recieve an e-mail if I update my blog so you'll know when I've written something :) I'll try and write my first entry once I'm in Beijing with Dom tomorrow or the next day to let you know I'm still alive and Areoflot hasn't brought my life to an abrupt end!... read more

Greetings from Dublin! It seems crazy to believe, but we are finally here! It's happening! and it's COLD!!! When we landed in Dublin it was 50 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Brr! But, we got our flight changed to Turkey (yay!) and (finally) found and checked into our hostel. Which is pretty nice: a private bath & shower with HOT water! We spent the day taking a giant nap and then wandering around Dublin. Can't wait to get more into things tomorrow. In a haircutting accident, I, John, had to correct some mistakes by shaving my head. I look like the Comic book supervillan, Bullseye, who is incidentally Irish. My head is cold. Another kind of funny thing (the above is funny to me as I, Janie, still have all my hair is that I thought we ... read more