Thursday, July 15, 2010

Not sweating in Ireland

Mitch and I have made it to our final destination. The weather here is in the mid 60s everyday, a welcome change from 90s. We have spent 2 nights in Dublin where we have visited probably about 10 different pubs and drank a ton of different kinds of beer. Reasons why Ireland is great: 1. The weather 2. They speak English 3. People are nice 4. There are about 4 pubs on every block.

All is well here, we are heading to cork for a night then working our way up the coast to Galway. We fly back on Tuesday from Dublin, it is hard to believe that my 40 days in Europe are almost over.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

http://www.alpinraft.ch/sites/eng/activities/bungy_jumping.html

Check out this site for the activity that Mitch and I took part in yesterday. It was the time of my life. Scared, nervous, thrilled, relieved, and happy all at once.

We bungy jumped from the Stockhorn. Check out the video, it is pretty insane.


The day before that we floated down the river in Bern, freezing cold, but extremely exhilerating. Here is a link to a video of that from youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqI9oxEw0zo

all is well here, headed to Zurich today for a night, then off to Paris for 2 nights, then flying to Ireland.


10 days left....sad

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

PJ

Concert day is upon us.
Gomez at 3pm.
Ben Harper at 7pm.
Pearl Jam at 9pm.

The fact that this was the only thing we actually planned on doing on this trip makes this day all the sweeter.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Hot and sweAty in Italy

Summer in Italy sounds wonderful for most, but unless you love to sweat through your clothes then it is not for you. 2 days until the pearl jam concert. Also realized that Gomez is also playing the same day along with Ben Harper. Shoulde be a blast, most likely going to be hot as hell there, but it should be well worth it.

Three more nights in venice then off to Bern for 2 nights and Zurich for 2 nights. I cannot wait to see the alps. Happy 4th everyone, Mitch and I will be spending the evening at Harrys American Bar right on the water....maybe they will have karoake.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Last day in Split

Spent the day on an island beach of the coast of Croatia, and i managed to only get a little sunburnt. We have a full day left in Split, our ferry leaves around 7 tonight.


What the hell Twins!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Croatia

Who would have thought that Croatia is such a beautiful country. Our 5 hour train ride from Zagreb took us through mountains and valleys, pretty impressive. Looking forward to some relaxation these next few days before we head to Rome.

The sunburn is actually not all that bad right now, carrying a backpack yesterday caused me some of the worst pain of my life.

As of now Mitch and I are in Split, Croatia. That is located right on the Adriatic Sea, we are planning on being here for about 3 days. On Tuesday night we are taking a ferry over to Italy, where we will begin the last 20 days of our trip.

Not sure how much money i have spent thus far, all i know is that Waconia Public schools will be paying me in 3 days !) Well all is good here, all I keep hearing about in MN is all the severe weather.

Friday, June 25, 2010

I fought the sun and the sun won

after a full day at the bathes yesterday, I have now visited 2 pharmacies in Budapest to help solve the problem of awful sunburn. I came out with a special spray that says something in Hungarian, so far I have used it twice, and have been pleased with the results. I think that i say this every time that i get sunburnt, but here it goes again, I will never forget to put on sunscreen again.

heading to croatia tomorrow.....for four days in the sun....I am going to need to stock up on sunscreen