Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Update from Rome

While we were talking around outside the Coleseum today we got handed flyers for 3 different pubcrawl things, that seemt to actually be an amazing deal, except weàre too cheap to spend the money at this point (it actually seems to be a good deal, considering alcohol is basically twice as expensive at bars and resaurants compared to home), and weàre scared weàll wake up in some random ruin somewhere the next day!
Speaking of pub crawls, we were woken up by some buy in our hostel yesterday who was apparantely puking his guts out...for like 2 hours, so that was interesting :p This hostel is by far the most sketchy place that weàve stayed. It basically looked like it used to be an apartment, and they kicked the guy out 5 minutes before we got there. There were clothes in the closet and random bottles of water around the room! There was also a tiny figure out a man with a chainsaw above the mirror, we fully expected to be murded by some chainsaw maniac in the night, lol.
The trip into Rome was pretty cool though, we met up with a bunch of random Canadians and Americans and we had 16 of us travelling from one side of Italy to the other, we basically took over an entire train car. It was nice to hang out with people who speak english!

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Trip Update Update from Venice, Italy

Today was our second day in Venice, which is an amazing city. Yesterday we walked all around and shopped at the little glass and mask shops, the glass work is beautiful. The city itself is like nothing Iàve ever seen, today it was raining but we went anyway, and got lost for about an hour trying to find out way back to the boat we take from our campground. Luckily we decided to pull out our map after a bit of random walking, or we would have been lost forever!

Days are starting to blend together, weàre having tons of fun, but we always have to think pretty hard about what day it is, where we were yesterday, and even where we are right now!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Eurotrip 2006 - Update from Munich

Finally found an internet cafe that´s cheap enough for me to type this all out!

Swizerland was amazing, we stazed (Iäm just going to ignore the kezboard errors, Iäm sure zouäll get it.) in Lucerne, which is just outside the Alps. It had an amaying view of the mountains across a huge lake. The citz was prettz small, so we walked around most of it during the daz. Imagine having small cobbled streets with buildings running down both sides, and everz building was filled with trendz clothes and food stores. It was like an amaying outdoor mall! We also went to see a giant 20 metre lion carved into some cliffs, but it was under restoration:p We could still mostlz see it, though. I was tempted to buz a swiss watch (basicallz everz store sold them), but reallz, thez werenät overlz cheap. In fact, wine in France wasnät that cheap either (although it was good).

Speaking of cheap, weäre in Munich right now, and I canät believe how cheap beer is! Thez sell it everzwhere and zou can walk around the streets with it. At one store we were in there was beer for .30 euro a bottle, which is like...42 cents! We went to Olzmpic park and sat in a beer garden drinking some sort of wheat beer called Weissbeir, which was quite tastz...although the girls didnät seem to like theirs :p

Tomorrow weäre going on a tour of the castle that thez modeled sleeping beautzäs castle after (Neuchwanstein...or thereabouts). It should be fun, itäs a bike tour and we also get to go swimming. The girls were quite insistant about visiting the ´princess castle´!

Iäll see if I canät update again sometime soon, but for now, I need some sleep!