Blogs from Europe - page 11926

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

Since my last blog entry James and I have been pretty much everywhere in London, down to the southeastern coast of England, back to London, and now on the move to France. We were supposed to leave last Thursday, but decided to stay on the weekend and this week to get some more business stuff done. James has been working a lot, and I’ve been trying to help as best as I could for the last week, and not drive him totally crazy! So what have we been up to….well the highlights have been; James getting great tickets for us to see the play Wicked (the untold story of The Wizard of Oz). 8th row! It was really good! By the end of the week, both James and I had had enough of the run ... read more

Our first ferry trip in Greece!! We were so excited to take the Greek version of Bart to the port, but of course they were on strike - just our luck so we had to take a taxi... and traffic was ridiculous because of the strike so it took forever to get there. Lambrose our driver was super nice, he helped us map out our island hopping excursions. At the port we had our first Gyro's!! and free beer!!! It was so friggin hot! 31 degrees which is over 90!!! Hot hot hot. The ferry was super nice - we got suckered into upgrading to the "airplane seats" that reclined in the ac section of the boat where they showed movies in english!! We figured out later that no one checks your tickets and you ... read more

Zdrah'stvooite! No, I am not insulting you. That's how we'd say HELLO in Russian. If you guessed that I have been saying "hello" instead, you were right! I can manange "da" (yes) and "nyet" (no), and "spasee'ba" (thanks). The 10 hr flight from Atlanta to Moscow was okay. I read my "travel bible" (lonely planet) to get a refresher on Russian history, from Ivan the Terrible, to Peter the Great, to Lenin, Stalin, ... and all the way to president Putin. Than... the American by me started to talk (yeap! I was not the one talking, believe me). He happened to be working on building a facility to destroy Russian chemical weapons!!! US brings personnel and money for the plant, and contributes with other projects like hospital, orphanage, etc. According to him, the new cold war ... read more