Blogs from Europe - page 12016

Hi, Well once again sorry it's taken so long. (seems to be a recurring beginning to these blogs) However in my defence I'm sure that you don't really want to hear all about us working, eating and sleeping which is pretty much what we've been up to. So today has been a little disruptive. Our bathroom upstairs is undergoing some maintenance in the bathroom. (For the last week we have had no toilet - so this is being fixed - the problem is quite disgusting and I'm not going into it). Anyways since the room is construction zone it's meant that Tyson has spent all day sitting around downstairs computering. (which I'm sure he does really enjoy). Hmmmmmm what else has been happening. Oh yes grocery shopping was done this morning. (fun times - Tyson ... read more

The last days were really fully booked. On Friday we were rock climbing the whole day with some mentors outside in the Buda Hills. Really good and nice to learn/try it a little bit. Saturday morning I went with Andre to Tokaj - the famous white wine region in the northeast of Hungary. There had arranged to meet with the other esn-group from Debrecen. In price it is quite cheap here. Accomodation less than 7€ and beer in the Disco also only 1€. Before we started with wine tastings, we looked around in the village of Tokaj and visited the wine museum. If you want wine, you must only ring at some door and ask to get one. Then you go with the wine grower to his wine cellare, taste some and drink what you ... read more

Bonjour. We are having lots of fun here in Paris. We've had incredibly beautiful weather, which helps alot, as we are doing tons of walking. We've seen all the major sites, and also just wandered around a good bit. We're staying in the 10th arrondisement, which is a working-class neighborhood about a mile north of the Seine and the tip of the Island that Notre Dame is on. One of our highlights was having dinner last night at the house of Marine's parents. Marine was our au pair in Minneapolis three summers ago; she is now a law student here in Paris. Her parents live about a mile from our apartment, and they very graciously invited us over last night. We had an all-French meal: pate, bread, cheese, sausage, champaigne, red wine, macaroons, etc. Both ... read more

Monday we took another trip to the Pig park; this time one of the mama pigs had had babies! They were so cute. Just as amusing and entertaining as the baby pigs was watching Gerald, the pig park ranger, interacting with the mama pig and her babies. It is incredible how comfortable he is with the pigs, and vice versa. There are significantly fewer pigs in the park now than there was when I first visited the park five weeks ago. They have been slowly selling the pigs to other parks, and selling some to people to be consumed. There are only about a dozen or so pigs left in the park, and soon the park will close because of the owner of the land does not want the pigs there anymore. Gerald is obviously ... read more

Well, we've arrived in Germany safe and sound :) It's 2:20 in the afternoon here, which is 8:20pm Eastern Time back in the States (Sorry...I was tired and meant to say 8:20am!!) and we're all pretty tired. We're in Hanau for the night and they're putting us on a bus to Mannheim first thing in the morning. If permanent housing is as nice as the temporary place they put us in I'll be pretty okay with living on post :) Our plane got into Frankfurt at 7:30 this morning and it took us a while to clear immigration, get all of our luggage and the dogs, and go through customs (which is where they look at the boys' medical paperwork). It all got slowed down because there were a lot of those big green Army duffels ... read more