Blogs from Europe - page 13062

hola there from valencia! we arrived on saturday morning after a manic 5 hour train journey!!! got up at like 8 and packed then got to barcelona sants estacio at like 9 after having already got our tickets from snr miguel the day before!!! the aforementioned had a little trouble with our spanish and we equally had just as much trouble with his spanish....he thought we were going to france...valencia, sounds like it i guess... anyways, got on the train and met a feelow english person which was good to compare notes and the such, and when we arrived at about 2ish..we realised..blimey its hotter down here!! it was 38 degrees centigrade today and its getting hotter for the festival tomorrow i think..the tent might be eqilivilent to that of setting ourselves on fire while sleeping! ... read more

So i arrived yesterday evening in Sorrento, a charming little town with cute shops...i walked up this gigantic hill to the campsite i was staying at, but the digs are awesome and well equipped...i have a whole cabin to myself (which is supposed to hold 3)...i had a pretty bad night just thinking about stuff and just feeling pretty alone. being alone really makes you think about things to the extent that you might not usually if you werent alone (does that make sense?) but yea, just puts you in a contemplative mood and causes overthinking...it also makes me get really anxious and stressed...travelling alone is pretty stressful (i think my entries are pretty repetitive, sorY!) but yea, i get anxious really easily...but anyway, to the good stuff that you guys will want to read... i ... read more

Well we made it through Florence which was sorta boring. Unless u like a 18 foot high statue with his balls out (sorry Michalangelo). But Rome has been real sweet. Our hostel is within walking distance of everything. We went and checked the Vatican city and St Peters ballsica, Pizza Venezia, Palantine Hill, The Colleseum, The Pantheon, and a bunch of other crazy stuff. Everything is rediculously old. Love it. But the city is basically shut down completely on Sundays so we just realxed today. Went and Saw the Pope do his big speech thing. Sorta wild. The tourists havent bothered me that much here because ive been to busy gawking at the crazy old buildings. Florence on the other hand i was ready to snap. So We re off to Naples in the morning to ... read more

We just spent 2 of the most wonderful, perfect days in Denmark. Zak has an old musician old friend from Ghana called Eddie, whom he hadn't seen in 2 1/2 years. So it was in hindsight, rather presumptuous of Zak to just SMS him and ask to stay at his place, assuming everything was the way it had always been. To our pleasant surprise, Eddie was moving up in the world: he had recently gotten married, had a new baby, and he and his wife expanded their apartment -- annexing the one next door -- and renovated it into something amazing. Well, thankfully, as imposing as we might have been, Ditte, Eddie's wife, was very hospitable and friendly, and we had a good time in Copenhagen. We had arrived late Friday nite, during the Jazz festival, ... read more

I’m back at Paris. I finally caved and called in the Marriott Calvary. (My brother, Greg, works for the Marriott and can get good family rates at times.) When we got to Biot I had a little bit of a meltdown. I was a little homesick, I realized I didn’t know where the heck I wanted to go after Wendy left, and I was sick of planning. So Paris and a week at the Marriott sounded pretty darn good. I loved Paris, and this would give me time to see more of the city and regroup to figure out what I wanted to do for the rest of my six weeks. THANK YOU GREG! Tour de France I’m not a big biking fan, but I did read Lance Armstrong’s book and lived with a triathlete long ... read more