Below are the 18 most recent journal entries recorded in penguinabroad's LiveJournal:

Monday, December 19th, 2005
11:34 pm	i don't know if i'll have emails and livejournal and internet in cornwall or wether they are the best things anyway. let's see how old school pen and paper and telephones work out. but message me on christmas day. my mobile number is 0044 791 404 9108. maybe it will snow this christmas. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 9th, 2005
9:25 pm	so big news for the day I GOT INTO CSU AND WILL BE GOING TO BATHURST NEXT YEAR -and i totally dig cheese and wine, heaven forbid i should come back to australia with some class (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 28th, 2005
4:12 pm	In fair Verona where we lay our scene Hey all, Well I must admit I was getting a bit sick of the lifestyle of the traveller, the weather was getting depressing and I was getting more homesick than usual, but today the sun came out. Literally! It has been raining and snowing everywhere I-ve been for the last week or so, so it was great to be able to enjoy walking around the pretty streets of Verona without wearing a raincoat and without rushing around everywhere! Some quick highlights> -slept in a trainstation -saw David, he was as perfect as all the art books say -walked through snow -ate spaghetti bolognaise in Bologna -went to (Juliet-s Balcony* -went to St Francis-s church in Assisi -am going to Venice for the day 2moro -meeting up with my friend in Milan on Wednesday hope all is well back home yo (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 11th, 2005
1:56 pm	Before the olive harvest.... So now that I'm at probably my last internet cafe for the next two weeks (horror!), and since i haven't updated since the days before Etna - here's an extra loooooooong one. So if you happen to be recovering from a large birthday party (hello Walsh family!) why don't you sit back, relax and enjoy.... VOLCANO ADVENTURES IN SICILY -Topped three volcanoes in four days! Mt Etna was a big personal achievement because it was physically tough. The whole thing is like 3,380m above sea level- although you can't go all the way to the top I still had to pace myself because the air was so thin. It took us pretty much all day to hike as high as you were allowed to go, taking the jeep, bus & cable car option on the way down! It was a little foggy anyway so once we got towards the top the visibility decreased to only 3 or 4 metres at times! It was very strange to see snow covered in volcanic sand and snow in crators that were still smouldering. From Catania I made my way to the coastal resort town of Taormina. Once I got there I decided that an island escape was exactly what I needed. On the island of Lipari I met up with some people I had met in Catania and made a lot of day trips from there. It was the end of season but the weather was beautiful, the landscape was naturally beautiful to walk through, the beach was nice to relax on, the water was warm and even the jellyfish didn't sting too hard. I definately preferred the Aolian Islands to the islands I had visited on tour in Greece. -Vulcano Island was rad because, well, lets face it- it's called Volcano Island! It was a very lush island and I took the beautiful, totally untouristed, easy walk up as a nice opportunity to reflect, unwind and take in the wonderful views of the neighbouring islands. -Stromboli...... Hmmmmm what can I say..... IT ERUPTED! This was part of a boat cruise I splurged on (retail therapy anyone?) while I was staying on Lipari Island for a few days. A small boat (with a little deck up top to lie on!) took us to Stromboli in the afternoon stopping for a swim in a beautiful little cove with chrystal clear water on the way. We hiked up through this awesome jungle-like terrain as it was beginning to get dark- fully equipped with raincoats, helmuts, torches and a few really intrepid people had hiking poles (slackers). The whole time we were walking we could hear all these menacing rumbling noises. By the time we reached the top it was pitch black, freezing cold and we were all getting sick of a particular two American girls who loudly complained the whole way up. Sitting on top of the volcano and looking down into one of its crators we could see two small lava holes that were spitting out lots of smoke and the occasional flame. As cool as it was to be sitting on a volcano at night and seeing lava- I was a little disappointed- I had hiked up my third volcano for this? But then suddENLY LAVA SHOT UP INTO THE AIR WITH A THUNDEROUS BOOM! I quickly realised that photographing a volcanic eruption was near impossible and instead engaged in cheering and clapping after every eruption along with everyone else like little kids at a fireworks display. The climb down took about a third of the time it took us to get up, even though I still wished I had an Esky Lid to slide down all the fine volcanic sand, it was still pretty rad slipping and sliding all over the track. The dew was starting to settle on all the long grass and bamboo... perhaps my imagination got the better of me but I almost expected a Pteradactyl to swoop down at any minute. GELATI TOUR OF RAD ROME At last it was time to head back to the mainland and finally meet up with my friends from Canberra in Rome! Got to the station about 9 hours too early so killed some time by just taking a stroll around the station. I walked down the first street I saw. Walked straight into the first church I saw as well. Made my way down to the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier (Monument to Victory) and strolled through a museum exhibition there. It didn't take long to dawn on me that there was going to be something amazing around nearly every corner in this city. Some church, some building of historical and cultural significance, some beautiful a beautiful statue, a fountain, an ancient ruin, an obelisk, a gelati store...... There was culture and art and history just oozing out of every nook and crany. Thousands of years of history, countless famous artists, incredible cuisine..... I was going to love Rome. I was very excited to be seeing a familiar face as well, to be meeting up with people who knew and understood me. Meeting new people is great don't get me wrong, but I really needed a familiar, friendly face. Met Donna and Lachlan at platform 1 (of 27) and after my first encounter with gypsy kids we made our way out to our hotel. Even though it was in like the Charnwood, no maybe Banks of Rome it handily had a PAM supermarket, mtv, nearby pizza place and our room also doubled as a make-shift laundromat! We saw a lot of incredibly rad Roman stuff: (Dammit I am going to have to make this breif- have already been at this net cafe for a while and I need to find something to eat and my way back to the hostel) -Vatican City including the Vatican Museums, Rafael Rooms, Sistine Chapel and St Peters. It was pretty crowded but the art was (obviously) awe inspiring, definately a place you wish you could see without any other tourists being there so you could really absorb everything in the paintings. -Roman Forum - with thanks to Lachlan's extensive knowledge of Roman History (and also a Magic guide book) I learnt heaps wandering around the ruins of the birth of civilisation. What each building was used for, what the Roman people were like at the time... I enjoyed it a lot more than other ruins because we could go at our own pace and a palatial picnic (prepared with fresh ingredients from PAM) on top of the Palantine was one of the most fantastic meals I have eaten so far. -Colosseum - as proved by the somewhat lame photos of us posing as Gladiators, it was very easy to imagine what it would have been like back in the day. SEA-VIEW SORRENTO & PUMPING POMPEII After getting the (slow) train down through Naples to Sorrento and 'learning the backstreets of Sorrento di Piano' for a while we made it to our hotel. Sea view- hell yeah. Spent the next day touristing it up at Pompeii- armed with a camera, a bucket hat, a raincoat, a backpack, an audioguide AND a magic guide book I got totally snap-happy. We were walking around for over six hours and I still don't think we saw everything! Will write more on Pompeii and Sorrento when I get the chance but for now I will leave with this: I really got a lot of strength from being with my friends. I had a wonderful time chatting over meals, going to exciting places, discovering and learning new things, even watching Jackie Chan movies dubbed in Italian and riding in a three person bike with them. Thanks yo and hope y'all have a rockin time in Singapore! I now feel energised to go and pick olives for ten days! Even if I get reception I am probably just going to turn my phone off, avoid the internet even if it's available and really just try and get away from everything. I am looking forward to getting settled into one place for a longer period of time and getting to know more about Italian culture, brush up my Italian, eat nice food, start reading my new book (The Three Muskateers!) spend time with a family and get stuck into doing some actual work. So expect jars of olives for Christmas! Rock out y'all, expect postcards, sorry I haven't got around to replying to emails, Elspeth PS: Happy Birthday Trish! PPS: stacks more photos up in the Turkey and Greece albums also some top shots from Sicily and two Rome albums. Rome 1 has generic Roman stuff as well as the Vatican City, Roman Forum and Colosseum. Rome 2 has the Trevi Fountain, Villa Borghese and more generic roman radness http://photobucket.com/albums/b231/penguinabroad/ will put about a million pompeii ones and sorrento up soon. Current Music: europop (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
7:08 pm	So I was thinking of going on a tour for Christmas that would include spending Christmas day in a welsh castle but it worked out at a hundred pounds per night so I have reshuffled a few things so that I can hang out with my relatives in Cornwall instead! Which when I think about it sounds a lot nicer. And for New Years Eve it was going to be Hogmany in Edinburgh but now it is.... IN DUBLIN! Doing a tour with Haggis Adventures (laugh it up) which includes 3 nights accomodation in Dublin over NYE and a tour of southern Ireland before that for 4 days. After realising I am running out of time and money I am in the process of reprioritising and reshuffling. I still get to see everywhere I wanted just in a different order and for different amounts of time. So yeah. Sicily is kinda cool. Haven't really seen much of it yet as I spent most of today sleeping. Got off one overnight ferry, waited around to catch another overnight bus so I had been travelling pretty much three days straight without showering. Yum. At least I had some cool company - met Barry the Canadian and two chicks from Ohio (which makes me think of Drew Carey). 2moro I am going to hike up Mt Etna! (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
12:54 pm	Athens Hi guys! Well I've finished the Fez tour and am sitting here using the net (2 euro per hour woo hoo!) at my youth hostel in Athens just relaxing before I get on a ferry to Italy 2moro night! I'm so excited! Italy and Turkey were probably the two places I was most excited about going to before I left so I'm pretty pumped at the moment. I have decided to go to Sicily for a week. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How cool is that, I can just go "yeah I think I want to go to this place" and there is nothing stopping me from going! Mainly just going because I can and because I have a week to kill before meeting up with Donna and Lachlan in Rome and I don't want to go any further north... so Sicily it is! This is my rough itinerary for the next little while or so, of course subject to change depending on where I can book into, transport from one to another etc: OCTOBER: 25-27: Catania, Sicily 28-29: Taormina, Sicily 30-1: Stromboli, Sicily NOVEMBER: 2-3?: Messina 3-5: Rome 6-8: Sorrento & Pompeii 9-11: Rome 12-22: Farm somewhere in Lazio 23-25: Assisi 26-28: Florence 29-30: Cinque Terre DECEMBER: 1-3: Venice 4-6: Verona 7-8: Milan 8-14: France???? 15-?: Cornwall???? From then on I'm not quite sure. Most probably London for Christmas and quite possibly Hogmany in Edinburgh for New Years. Then maybe aroung Ireland if I get time or more of Scotland and England. This is a description of the farm I will be helping at in Lazio for ten days with the olive harvest: This 5 HA farm and agritourism is run by Filippo and his wife and their two small children. They have only recently started working the farm and they cultivate organically olives, vegetables and millet and have pigs. Unable to accomodate children at the moment. Meals not vegetarian and not always organic. WWOOFers wanted for periods of one to two weeks throughout the year with various jobs on the farm. They are five mns from the Lake of Bolsena and 20 from Viterbo and hot springs. Accomodation in own room. Spanish, English and French spoken. How cool. Note the non- vegetarian meals.... lol. That's about it for now. I have put more Cappadocia photos up as well as some more from Greece. Hope you all are well, love receiving emails so keep em coming! Current Mood: excited Current Music: The Polyphonic Spree & the strokes (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 15th, 2005
6:42 pm	IOS Greetings from Greece! So far we've spent two nights in Mykonos and now we are in Ios (where you can still get very sunburnt at 4.30PM). In a few days we'll go to Santorini then onto Athens. The islands are a little disappointing in regards to natural beauty - they are very barren like with no trees and just rocks everywhere. The beaches are nice, no waves or anything. But I tell you what, stretching out on a sunbed under an umbrella near a quiet beach is just what I needed! It was getting a bit hectic going round on buses with the 30 other people on a different Fez tour, but now there is only 13 of us and the schedule is VERY relaxed! The group is great - very easy to get along with and a lot of fun. We have seen Gallipoli, Troy and the ruins of the ancient cities of Ephesus and Pergamum. Turkey was amazing - especially the Cappadocia tour with Geckos. It was unbelievable! Everything was perfect - the people, the places, the weather, the things we saw and did, the things we ate..... mmmmm Turkish food.... I had such an amazing time and have the scars to prove it! (Massive purple bruise inside my thigh from horseriding around Goreme) Hope everyone is well, I'm off to eat some traditional Greek pancakes and maybe sip a cocktail by the pool at our hotel... which looks over the bay... the beach and the beautiful blue water..... jealous yet? lol. Current Mood: content Current Music: weezer - island in the sun (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 7th, 2005
5:28 pm	CAPPADOCIA!!!!!!!!!! All I think I really need to say is: (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
2:15 pm	this place is totally amazing i can't believe i'm actually here and it is awesome beyond belief rockin out yo (Comment on this)
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
6:40 pm	ISTANBUL! Just quickly (before I get on an 11 hour overnight bus to Goreme in Cappadoccia) to let you know I'm alive and IN ISTANBUL! Today I visited The Topkapi Palace - now I'm excited about Sultans and Palaces rather than Knights and Castles - which included it's treasury (wow- one candlestick had 48 kg of solid gold, plus a few thousand diamonds), it's meeting rooms, the room where they kept their hats, the gardens, the armoury (some really amazing swords) etc The Basilica Cistern - Underground water storage system built by Justinianus in the 5th Century AD- huge columns, awesome atmosphere The Blue Mosque - very beautiful and was lucky enough to have a guide who spoke openly and honestly about the Muslim religion ok off i go! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 25th, 2005
9:41 pm	grrr.... Lost my phone in Salzburg, it might turn up at the hostel but I doubt it. So yeah no mobile, yay, I hate feeling out of touch, even though I didn't use it much, I will miss waking up to it's mexican hat dance alarm ring tone. So now you have more excuses to EMAIL ME ALL THE TIME lol. Apart from that -I have mastered the Austrian keyboard! no more zz's and ßßß's for me. -I went for a lovely bike ride this morning out of Salzburg and to Hellbrun where I saw the Sound of Music Pavilian (you know, I am sixteen going on seventeen?) -Went to an ice cave in the alps and also a fortress on a hill! -Adored Salzburg, itäs my fave so far, with Cesky Krumlov a close 2nd. -Saw squirrels!!! -2moro I'm going on a short hike in an area where these german guys told me they saw mountain goats the other day -Went in a maze in the gardens of a palace in Vienna, other than that it was a pretty dull city. -Innsbruck seems nice enough, I'm going to an alpine zoo and the Swarovski (sp?) Chrystal Cave hoorah! -Happy birthday Julia Collin! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
9:02 am	BEARS! Hello from Cesky Krumlov! I'm down in the south of the Czech Republic, in a town that's like a mini-Prague, only ten times less busy! But first - Kutna Hore. We went on a day trip from Prague with some people we met on the train, two girls from Melbourne and a Texan dude. We went to the Ossuary there, which was like this church with all these sculptures made from human skeletons. During the plague too many people were dying and they didn't have enough room in the cemetary so this blind monk started making sculptures out of the bones of 40, 000 dead people! It was very strange, kinda gruesome but still very interesting. There are some more pictures up and a few of Prague, but if I put all of them up it would take all day! We walked up to Prague Castle and the view was amazing so we took like a billion photos... all of pretty much the same thing but from different angles ha ha ha. We caught a train this morning to Cesky Krumlov - it was a really nice journey through a fir tree forrest. Cesky Krumlov is pretty small so we're only staying a night here. We were going to go night rafting but it's a bit cold and not exactly something I would want to do just by ourselves, we were also going to go canoeing on the river here but it's hell cheap to get a bus to Linz then Vienna in the morning so we're doing that instead. Today we walked around the city (I still haven't gotten over the novelty of cobbled roads) and then made our way up to the castle. We went to a sculpture exhibition in the cellar of the castle which had some amazing peices and such a moody setting! But by far the coolest thing which has happened so far was when we were looking down into the moat of the castle. I was like "Hey it looks like a place where a bear would live" and then lo and behold out walked a bear. A surprise bear is really something particularly rad. Especially if that bear happens to be in the moat of a really cool castle in a really cool town! So yeah, off to Austria for a week 2moro! Ha ha we're going to do a Sound of Music bike tour in Salzburg. Hope y'all are well, drop me an email or leave a comment and say hello! We're Rockin' the Republic just like Lenin did. (ok I stole that fro mTerry) (Comment on this)
Friday, September 16th, 2005
9:45 pm	hi y'all. just a quick one to let you know i put a few more photos up on the other site http://photobucket.com/albums/b231/penguinabroad i'll put up the social pics and ones of poznan when i get around to it. today i went to aushwitz & birkenau... wow. more on that later off to prague 2moro! pity the only one we could get was at 10.30PM and gets in at 8.30 the next morning... fun times ahead! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
6:06 pm	everybody gdansk now do do do do Greetings from Poland! It's the last day of the voluntary workcamp I have been doing and man, am I excited about starting to TRAVEL! The workcamp has been a good experience, even if it wasn't what I expected and even though the first week was really hard. The organisation and communication was complete crap and we hardly did any work, BUT getting to know the other volunteers and doing cool stuff with them was really awesome. I now have friends from Serbia, Italy, Bulgaria, USA, Thailand, Poland, France and Switzerland.... Actually, the Swiss guy was a bit of a jerk, but anyway. It was really interesting learning about their cultures and they are really creative people so working with them was really fun. They're funny and like to dance so we had some good nights out. At night time we either went out to clubs in Gdansk or caught trains to Sopot (greatest nightlife, just a big beach with clubs all along it) or Gydnia to check out the many festivals that are happening at the moment. We went to a few outdoor concerts with mainly reggae music but also funk and rock. My fave night was when we went to Sopot and danced on the beach to a band playing James Brown covers and also some original stuff. Last night we went to see a play - aparently it was about families in wartime Serbia but it was all in Polish so we didn't understand much of it. Even so, the acting was incredible and it was a pretty dramatic and violent play. We've also visited a concerntration camp and a castle this week. I can't remember the name of the camp but it was very moving. Malbork Castle was huge and I had fun imagining all of the characters from plays that are set in Medieval Castles. Yesterday we had our performance with the kids. We've been working on (well for like two days...) a short performance in groups about multiculturalism with a class of nine year olds. They aren't disadvantaged, like I thought, neither are they refugees, actually they were pretty rich for Poland and the school had excellent facilities. It was a challenge communicating with them when they didn't speak much English - I think our group had it pretty easy cos ours was mainly dance so we didn't need to say much. We had to talk about our culture and play games (like we did chinese whispers with words from different languages) with small groups of kids. We pretended we were in the Eurovision Song Contest and danced to Daft Punk's Around the World - we did a traditional Thai dance and also some hip hop (hey! it's a combination of Australian and American culture.... c'mon!). We were meant to be working with highschools this week like going around advertising a local youth theatre company by running workshops with classes, but for some reason we didn't... We've also done some street theatre in a Mall with the kids (was meant to be the opening of the theatre group's new space but the theatre people didn't show, and there was hardly anyone in the mall... Still, we made it to the local paper and it was fun doing it). We have also checked out an exhibition on Solidarnosc (solidarity) which began as a trade union, or a protest movement to fight for the right to be able to form trade unions, which played a huge role in bringing down communism in Poland. It all began here in Gdansk and it's currently the 25th anniversary so it's a really interesting time to be here and learn about the history. When I first got to Poland I went straight from Warsaw to Poznan, to meet up with the group to travel to Gdansk together. Poznan is such a pretty city with a beautiful old market square. Gdansk is a very pretty city as well - the Old Town is very cool, with long pedestrian streets with outdoor cafes, colourful shops, stalls selling amber and paintings, next to the river.... yes yes it's all very romantic. So that brings it up to now.... Tomorrow I'll be in Krakow! Next week I'll be in the Czech Republic! I'm going to Oktoberfest (purely by accident of course.... The day I fly out of Munich just happens to be in the middle of it)! And Austria! Hope all is well with y'all, email me and tell me all the goss! tricky_penguin@hotmail.com ps: I hhave sent a few postcards/letters but Polish post is not too reliable so hopefully you get them in the next year sometime... pps: yes mum I had an early night last night and got some rest Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
10:08 pm	Notting Hill Today I met up with Amy (friend from school) and we went to the Camden Town Markets & the Notting Hill Carnival. Camden Town was full of hippies and punks, which meant there was miles and miles of cool shops and lots of interesting people. It was cool but by the end I was well and truly marketed out - having been to Portobello Road markets in Notting Hill the day before. Then we headed out to Notting Hill where there were HEAPS of people for the carnival - which is like this big Carribean thing, like lots of reggae music, Jamaican food, steel drums and crazy-assed dancing. No really, it was like their asses were not really attached to their hips at all, they moved SO fast. (Ha, and I thought our Fresh Funk Missy Elliot dances were insane...) It took a while to warm up, and we did a lot of standing around but some of the floats were pretty cool. Each float had a truck just full of speakers blasting crazy-African drum carnivale music, then some dancers and then people all dressed up. other cool things\; THE GLOBE THEATRE: I saw The Tempest and had a tour around. It was kind of weird being there, like I thought it would be this magical inspirational big experience seeing something performed there, but yeah I dunno. I couldn't really see much from where I was sitting, and the whole thing was done with only three actors (?) and these weird interpretive dancer girls in leather jackets... But it was cool just sitting there in the seat and thinking 'wow, here I am', and in the tour getting right up close to the stage, that was VERY cool. I'm totally going to perform on that stage one day (just the same as I'm going to be on the Parkinson Show too... ha ha). -The Tower Bridge - surprisingly cooler than London Bridge. Why didn't they sing about that instead... -The Fashion & Textile Museum - very zany 80's designs (Xandra Rhodes?) And yeah I think that's pretty much it... Going to Poland 2moro!!! Woooo! My new mobile number (without area codes) is 0791 4049 1081 Stuff I have purchaaaased: -black leather belt with metal square holes -steel capped docs (10£) YES ONLY TEN POUND BOOTS! THAT ACTUALLY FIT! AND LOOK NEW! ARG¬! -brown long hippy skirt (one that is too small and one that fits) -khaki bag (which is either the uglies thing ever or kind of funky - it looks like a camel pack) -square beads That's about it, really. I'm not feeling lonely anymore - calls/msgs/emails from home are very awesome, and catching up with Amy was rad. An Poland 2moro! Hope all is well there yo. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
8:24 pm	Adventures in Town hey y'all, Some cool things I saw at the British Museum today: -eskimo clothes -mammoth jaw http://photobucket.com/albums/b231/penguinabroad But probably the coolest thing was holding a 350,000 year old rock axe. Caveman technology. Yeah I might be a nerd, but man it felt rad holding something that old in my hand. That was like the first tool developed, one of the first examples of higher level thinking. Well not that exact rock that I held, but still. When I picked it up I held it like some kind of skull smashing weapon, then the guy was like 'actually it was more of a cooking utensil.' psh, way to ruin my fun old man. Yesterday I went to the Tate Modern art gallery. A lot of it was pretentious art-fart crap but some of it was pretty interesting. Then I walked over to St Paul's Cathedral which was pretty amazing. The detail of the glass mosaics, the paintings on the roof, the view from the top, the 523 freakin' steps... In the afternoon I walked over London Bridge and along the Thames (it was lined with trees and had a huge 2nd hand book market set up, how very romantic). Met Cathy & Bill for dinner and went to see 'The UN Inspector' at the Royal National Theatre. It had like, three huge theatres in the one complex and all the tickets are always ten pounds. it's all very cool and all but TOMORROW I'M SEEING THE TEMPEST AT THE GLOBE THEATRE ARRRRGGGHH! And also the Fashion & Textile Museum. I remembered that Aardman are England-based so I'm going to try and get to one of their studios as well... maybe on Friday. Hope all is well back there, post a comment and say hi, biznitches. PS: I don't know how to do lj cuts so y'all are going to have to deal with it Current Mood: quixotic Current Music: ben folds five - kate (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 22nd, 2005
2:04 pm	Cricklewood Greetings from not-very-sunny-at-all Cricklewood, London, Britain! It's kind of surreal, like, it really doesn't feel like I'm in a foreign country at all. Like yeah there's some funny looking houses and people sound weird, but the suburbs are just like areas of Sydney or Melbourne where there's heaps of terrace houses. Maybe when I go into the city where there'll be a million people it will feel different. It hasn't really sunken in that I'm actually gone either, it just feels like I've gone away for a weekend and my brain is still like "Yeah you'll see everyone in a few days". I guess that's a good thing. Cathy (Uncle Bill's fiance) picked me up from the airport and has been very nice showing me around everywhere. We went for a walk to West Hamstead (where there are hanging baskets of flowers on every lightpole) where there are lots of opp-shops. We went out for dinner last night (with an Aussie waiter), Bill & Cathy are being very welcoming. The flight was pretty cool, like awesome in-flight entertainment and decent food. Dubai airport had palm-trees inside and it was 31 degrees at 5.30 AM. Yeah so I'm alive, nothing really exciting has happened yet though. Catch ya round biznitches. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: IPOD! 1804 SONGS! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 20th, 2005
1:06 pm	OK, so... LONDON, ENGLAND: 20 - 28 August WARSAW, POLAND: 29 AUGUST POZNAN, POLAND: 30 - 31 AUGUST GDANSK, POLAND: 1 - 14 SEPTEMBER WARSAW, KRACOW: 14 - 20 SEPTEMBER GERMANY? AUSTRIA?: 20- 30 SEPTMEBER CAPPADOCIA EXPRESS TOUR, TURKEY: 2 - 8 OCTOBER INSTANBUL TO ATHENS TOUR, TURKEY & GREECE: 8 - 24 OCTOBER ITALY: OCTOBER/NOVEMBER FRANCE, ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND: DECEMBER/JANUARY (Comment on this)