July 13
its obsurdly hot in rome. from the moment we got out of the metro to go to our hostel we were sweating from the heat. its been at least almost 100 degrees every day or 100. The first hour of it was miserable because we found out we had to pay for our hostel with cash. we had to search for over an hour for an atm machine.
winnie says rome is dirty, which ya it kind of is, but i think it still is quite unique. its by far one of my favorite places ive ever been to. everything here is more relaxed, and in general is missing that noisyness we had in london and paris and even from back home. Theres plazas and fountains everywhere and people just around in every part of the day. <
yesterday we went to vatican city. in one sense it does not mean the same to me as it does many people who go to visit it. but its one of the most interesting collection of people from all through out the world. you have to cover your shoulders when you go in and many women were stopped and couldnàt go in. while there we went to the sistine chapel and vatican museums. the artwork on the walls and ceiling were some of the best artwork i think iàve ev er seen. i saw an orgional piece of art by rapheal and the famous painting of his self portrait into his painting. i learned about it in art class and it wa s really cool to see it in person. i also saw the very famous masterpiece by michaelangelo, i dont really know if i could put it into words because it was so grand. it puts me in awe and wonder how he had the ability to do that at the time.
thats about it. loving italy and cant wait till have the ability to travel more and come back here to see more. i actually wish i could see more places
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
winnie and i just got to our hostel in paris but not before we got completely turned around; i will definantly say that im becoming great at directions: this was the one hostel that gave us no directions to get here and we were able to navigate ourselves here on our own: the keyboards here are diffrent then the ones in the states: so its hard to type:
dublin was great: i never thought i would ever go to ireland but im happy to say that i did: we stayed at the four courts hostel and the receptionist people were great: it was not as friendly as the one in london but not bad: we shared a room with six people from cali that were just ending their six week trip and ze shared the room with two english girls who were their on holiday: i learned a lot about britan from them and we ended up hanging out with them one night: my favorite part of dublin was the day trip we took to the howeth penninsula: we did a cliff walk around the penninsula and it was one of the most beautiful sites ive seen in a reqlly long time: we could see boats going out to sea to fish for the day and you could hear the water as it hit the rocks at the bottom of the cliffs: it was really peaceful and a great change of pace from being in the city: it made me realize what people ùmeant when they said we needed to get out of dublin to really see ireland: the homes near the coast were gorgeous and all very unique from one another: the dogs there also ran around without leashes ; or as they would say ,leads;
facts that i have learned::: dublin won its independence in 1920 from britan:
in britan cookies are biscuits; leashes are leads; pants are trousers; garbqge cans are litter or rubbish containers: a lot more too::: cant remeber and too hard to type zwith this computer:
winnie and i slept at the airport last night; interesting experience and now my body hurts
i will be in paris till july 11
dublin was great: i never thought i would ever go to ireland but im happy to say that i did: we stayed at the four courts hostel and the receptionist people were great: it was not as friendly as the one in london but not bad: we shared a room with six people from cali that were just ending their six week trip and ze shared the room with two english girls who were their on holiday: i learned a lot about britan from them and we ended up hanging out with them one night: my favorite part of dublin was the day trip we took to the howeth penninsula: we did a cliff walk around the penninsula and it was one of the most beautiful sites ive seen in a reqlly long time: we could see boats going out to sea to fish for the day and you could hear the water as it hit the rocks at the bottom of the cliffs: it was really peaceful and a great change of pace from being in the city: it made me realize what people ùmeant when they said we needed to get out of dublin to really see ireland: the homes near the coast were gorgeous and all very unique from one another: the dogs there also ran around without leashes ; or as they would say ,leads;
facts that i have learned::: dublin won its independence in 1920 from britan:
in britan cookies are biscuits; leashes are leads; pants are trousers; garbqge cans are litter or rubbish containers: a lot more too::: cant remeber and too hard to type zwith this computer:
winnie and i slept at the airport last night; interesting experience and now my body hurts
i will be in paris till july 11
Friday, July 4, 2008
where i've been more wrong then right....
\london has been great but the dollar is worth nothing here. we have tried to do everything we wanted to do but it definatly has held us back a little. The hostel we are staying at is called Astor kensington and i reccemend it to anyone coming to london that wants somewhere clean and friendly. its also convientiently located next to the underground and down the street from a market. the market is great because today we discovered how much cheaper it is to cook your own food. comparted to the 16 to 20 pounds we would have each spent, today we only spent 1.83 pounds each.
i've discovered winnie is more observant then me but details have never been something i'm good at. We have found it difficult to cross the street here. when we are inclined to look left for cars, we should be looking right and because of this we've almost gotten hit by cars several times. people also walk up on the left on stairs and down on the right. thats something i'm not going to get used to...which is ok because we are leaving for dublin tommarow.
the first day we were here we saw london tower and walked across tower bridge. we also walked along the river thames and the site was great. i'm in love with the architecture here and it makes me more excited for the other places we are going. we also saw shakespeare globe theatre, westminister, parliment, big ben...the usual tourist attractions. yesterday we went to the tate modern and its been one of my favorite places here. its modern art and i really enjoyed it. i learned that i can pinpoint a piccasso painting from across the room even if i've never seen it before. we went to the national gallory to and saw a lot of orginal van goughs and monet. i also really enjoyed some other artists that i didn't know i would like so much, renoir and camille and one more that i forgot. yesterday we went to st pauls cathedral and walked up about 500 steps to see the best view of london. my entire body hurts now. buckinham palace was not as exciting as i thought because we went too late and missed the changing of the guards.
today we went portebello road and i loved it. its just a street full of people selling things, simiular to a flea market but i liked this better. we checked out kensington park too and just sat and relaxed a little.
what i love about this so far is that i've been meeting people from all over the world and i've only been here for 2.5 days. i want to say london is the cleaner, more victorian, friendlier version of new york. there are so many people from every where here.
tommarow we leave for dublin early.
i've discovered winnie is more observant then me but details have never been something i'm good at. We have found it difficult to cross the street here. when we are inclined to look left for cars, we should be looking right and because of this we've almost gotten hit by cars several times. people also walk up on the left on stairs and down on the right. thats something i'm not going to get used to...which is ok because we are leaving for dublin tommarow.
the first day we were here we saw london tower and walked across tower bridge. we also walked along the river thames and the site was great. i'm in love with the architecture here and it makes me more excited for the other places we are going. we also saw shakespeare globe theatre, westminister, parliment, big ben...the usual tourist attractions. yesterday we went to the tate modern and its been one of my favorite places here. its modern art and i really enjoyed it. i learned that i can pinpoint a piccasso painting from across the room even if i've never seen it before. we went to the national gallory to and saw a lot of orginal van goughs and monet. i also really enjoyed some other artists that i didn't know i would like so much, renoir and camille and one more that i forgot. yesterday we went to st pauls cathedral and walked up about 500 steps to see the best view of london. my entire body hurts now. buckinham palace was not as exciting as i thought because we went too late and missed the changing of the guards.
today we went portebello road and i loved it. its just a street full of people selling things, simiular to a flea market but i liked this better. we checked out kensington park too and just sat and relaxed a little.
what i love about this so far is that i've been meeting people from all over the world and i've only been here for 2.5 days. i want to say london is the cleaner, more victorian, friendlier version of new york. there are so many people from every where here.
tommarow we leave for dublin early.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Leaving on a jet plane....
While hanging out in my kitchen with my mom, I realized that today is a monumental moment in my life and maybe also winnies. After years of talking about going to Europe after graduation we actually intiated it and we are going in about 5 hours! I some how managed to also pack for two weeks in a backpack the size of a carry on.
On a side note... this picture describes winnie and mine friendship in a nutshell...
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