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Thursday, August 28th, 2008We arrived yesterday to a very different temperature than we had been used to, cool, showers and only 18 degrees… we can already feel our tans fading. In spite of the dreary looking weather, Paris is still absolutely stunning and everything that everyone tells you that it is.
Another couple of great Amercian comments right as [...]
Friendly Sudan
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008The Ethiopian side took a long time, and while the truck is parked lots of people hooting at us and money changers prowl about, we managed to change our last dibble to Sudanese money at a back alley somewhere, the guy tried to cheat us but his competition told us and so we got a [...]
The not too good journey.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Well we knew it would take 21 hours to travel to valencia but nothing would prepare us for the journey we were about to do.
Firstly we got a train from pisa to tourin to get the connecting train striaght to barcelona. however our train was 40 mins late which meant we missed the train. hearing [...]
Our Italy Vacation.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Our Italian coffee experiences in Florence fell into two categories: either the coffee was fantastic (ensuring several cups were demolished in one sitting), or so appallingly bad that it wasn’t even drinkable. Average coffee wasn’t present. Here’s a lesson for you … a tourist trap that we unwittingly fell into … A nice little cafe [...]
Orlando, Florida
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008One of our shortest train journeys (a mere 6 hours!), marked the end of our time with Amtrak. Whilst the 30-day pass has been very good to us, carrying us from L.A. all the way to Florida, I think both of us will be happy if we never set foot inside an Amtrak train again! [...]
We just loved Vienna
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Good afternoon!
We happened upon the internet cafe again, so thought we would do another few minutes typing and rest our feet. Been doing ALOT of walking.
Vienna is very beautiful indeed. Lots of lovely baroque type buildings, and the centre is very compact so it’s very easy to get everywhere. Expensive though-today we had a picnic [...]