Blogs from Europe - page 12070

Well, my last full day in the land of the midnight sun where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea... The Blue Lagoon was one of the most luxurious experiences of my life! It was very cheap actually compared to most of Iceland. It was very relaxing, despite the airy-fairy, hippy nutcases floating around (One guy was sat cross legged in the shallows in a sort of Buddhist meditation!). They were like mines full of bullshit, waiting to grind up against the thin hull of my patience and detonate! I did the full works, silica mud mask (twice!), and sat in there for a couple of hours until I was wrinkled like a prune! Anyway, I"m going shopping today. Reykjavik is slowly waking up after Easter Sunday (although shops aren"t opening til midday!) The ... read more

That's right folks, we climbed 463 steps to the top of the Duomo this morning. Now, these aren't your average stairs, they are narrow and winding 600 year old stairs. First you go up these narrow NARROW flights, then a straight stretch, then some spiral stair cases, then another set of regular stairs, the higher you go the more percarious the stairways become. Then you get these fools going the wrong way and trying to come down where you are trying to go up, did I mention how narrow these stairs are? Anyway, once you get to the top it is so worth it. On the way up you get to see the frescoed interior of the dome close up, quite amazing, then about another two hundred steps later you go out onto the roof for ... read more

Ever since I was little I have always had a desire to explore the world, to get out of the small town that I grew up in. I knew that there was more to the world than what I was used to. So I told myself that one day I will travel and see what I can. And so this is where it all begins, and why I chose to study in Milan, Italy. I know that I am starting this blog about 4 months late and that I have only a few more weeks left in Europe but I will try to back track a little bit to tell you about everything for all those people I haven’t kept in touch with (I’m sorry!!). January 2007- At Logan Airport I dragged my three suitcases ... read more

Today we're on the move from Zurick on the ICE (highspeed train) to Frankfurt the next leg of our trip before we pick up the van. While we were waiting at the Zurich central station we found a very unusual peice of artwork ... it looked like a giant square block of bulbs on the roof that flashed different colours randomly, but on closer obsveration we discovered something very cool - there was a touch screen that projected the patterns that you touched on the screen onto the giant colour square on the ceiling - check out the images. The ICE was a really comfortable train we had window seats opposite eachother in the second class coach, although about 10 minutse from arriving we were told that we were in the right seat numbers, just ... read more

We left Santorini for Athens Monday, and after a LONG metro ride later, we arrived at the hotel in the heart of the Plaka near the Acropolis. We walked around and I enjoyed my first real gyros pita in Europe (every city has their own inferior imitations and variations)! We saw some ruins, old churches and houses just walking around the city. I then really wanted to see Kallimarmaro Stadium, home of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and used in the 2004 Olympics for some of the events - it was built in the 4th Century B.C. for the Panathenaic Games and then restored for the modern ones! We walked to Parliament and watched the changing of the guards, done every hour here. It was quite a show, complete with the guards' cute ... read more