First Week In England
In and around United Kingdom
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler John Shawn and Dan
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First Day and Night
So I made it over here which turned out to be just fine. I got on the plane and sat next to some British man who was about 50-60 I would imagine and... Continue reading » -
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One Week Gone And Off To Paris
Well we are all here together now.
It is great to see the guys again, but the last few days have been a riot aswell. After stayin... Continue reading »
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Three Days Gone
Bonjour,
A warnging that the keyboard in France is very different so this may seem like horrible typing.
PAris has been an adventure to... Continue reading »
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Up to the North to Get Educated!!
So we were in Bayeux.
I know no one really knows where it is and this is fair. It is north of Caen which is a town known for its massi... Continue reading »
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One Interesting Night
Mont Saint Michel,
Nothing really interesting what so ever to be honest. We got there in the mornign and after finding a hostel we took... Continue reading »
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Bordeaux, Closed Due To Something?
So we are now in Bordeaux.
I have waited a long time to come down to wine country, and what a trip from the north it was. We had to cat... Continue reading »
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Bob Who?
Well.
We arrived in San Sebatien after travelling from Bordeaux and meeting a number of Canadians, yet again, on the train down. When we arri... Continue reading »
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Still Alive, So I Figure Thats Pretty Good?
So we were on the bus to Pamplona and by the time we had arrived, the two guys had convinced us that we should be running with the bulls the next d... Continue reading »
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First Taste of Ridiculous
So Madrid was our first serious taste of heat. The second day we were there, it hit 41 degrees celcius and walking around in a city that is f... Continue reading »
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A Tad Overrated
Barcelona was a bit surpsising. We ahd heard amazing things as everyoen else has about the city but we found it to be nothing special. ... Continue reading »
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Humid and Hot!
Well Valencia was a solid change from what we thought Barcalona would be like.
Valencia is just off the coast of the Med and is a beautiful t... Continue reading »
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Mixed up Travels
So if anyone has been looking closely, they may have noticed that there is a day missing from log here. Well this is a seperate entry in itself... Continue reading » -
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Unexpected Gem
So after we had done Aix, we wanted to go down along the French Cote D'Azur, but we could not find any hostels that were in our range or that looke... Continue reading »
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Heck of a Town
Interlaken was another amazing city. We arrived to find ourselves without very good directions to the Hostel and started walking to where abo... Continue reading »
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Short Stay for Frances Third Visit
Lyon was a stop that provided what we already knew of France. Nice country, nice sights, nothing new. It did have some amazing cathedrals,... Continue reading » -
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The Beauty of the French Riviera!
Nice was amazing. It was good to get back to the extremely hot tempretures since we had become so used to them in Spain. When we arrived we d... Continue reading »
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Day Trip
So this is merely just to have Monaco on the map.
I guess this would also pose a good opportunity to give a status of how we are hangin... Continue reading »
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Beauty!
Cinque Terre ( said Chinka Tera) was just amazing. The city is really just five samll towns put together under one name but seperated by mout... Continue reading »
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Floating Mazes
Who doesn't want to go to Venice? Of course we liked it!
It was as beautiful as the pictures look and the canals really do exsist!!&nbs... Continue reading »
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Living in the Countryside
Florence was somewhere Shawn really thought we should go to since he really liked it when he went last Christmas. Well he was right, Florence... Continue reading »
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Enter The Quote You Are All Thinking Here...
So Rome was to put it bluntly, GREAT!
After hearing about how dirty it is from Shawn, was i was amazed at how clean it really is. We sp... Continue reading »
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Dario's Pizza!
Just to clearify why we are in a small town that no one has heard of and not inside Naples, is beacuse we heard that Naples wasn't the best of plac... Continue reading »
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Paradise On Earth
Well Dubrovnik was excellent!
We had booked an apartment for a week which we weren't sure if we wanted, but once we arrived, there was no dou... Continue reading »
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Denied At The Border
To start off with we spent one night on a bus which took care of the night that we missed here on the dates. This bus was obviously stopped a... Continue reading »
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A Quick Layover.
Alrighty....So after finally making our way into Greece, we had to make a quick stop in Thessaloniki before heading over to Corfu. We arrived ar... Continue reading » -
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Loads Of Fun.
So after another excellent night of sleep on yet another night bus/ferry. It was time to visit the infamous Pink Palace. At full capaci... Continue reading »
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Olympics' Past
So we had decided it would be pretty interesting to go see where the Olympics first started. Unfortunately Olympia was harder to get to... Continue reading »
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History Under Construction
We arrived in Athens after seeing a bit of older Greece in Olympia, so we were pretty set for seeing these sights that we've seen since we were kid... Continue reading »
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Fun Doing Nothing
Crete provided us a bit of time to relax again. We got to do some things that we haven't done in a while, like hike!
It was such a reli... Continue reading »
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Fun Doing Nothing 2
Again we found another great spot to really do nothing all day except rent MOPEDS! As the island is really small and there are no attractions... Continue reading »
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Almost To Asia
This is and most likely will be the closest to Asia as we will and have gotten on this trip. And it was great!
Istanbul was much cleane... Continue reading »
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Out With The Old, Kind Of In With The New
Coming from Istanbul, Turkey and reading that Bucharest is supposedly a "metropolitan" city, I sort of expected a bit more. We were greeted a... Continue reading »
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Finally Some Real Weather!
So we finally did it. We made it to cooler weather. I don't think anyone can truly appreciate how happy we were when we looked outside... Continue reading »
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I´m From the Old School, I Like My Coffee Black and My Communism Red
Back into communist country and this time we got to see some incredible stuff.
Of course lets get down to business. Thanksgiving!... Continue reading »
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Looking For More Cheap
We actually stayed in Vienna for this night, but we spent all day in Bratislava, exploring what is supposedly the "cheap." WEll it was very chea... Continue reading » -
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If Nothing Else, Just Get the Hot Dogs!
This town is one of the more beautiful we have been to in a while. It has buildings still in great condition but from long ago, and people th... Continue reading »
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And Then There Were Three
So this adventure begins with us accidentely purchasing a first class sleeper for our train into Krakow. Well let me tell ya, it was de... Continue reading »
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Spliting up
So as Shawn, Matt and Josh went off on their own to Krakow, Poland Dan and I decided to take an alternative route to Prague. The first place... Continue reading »
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In a Fairytale
Cesky Krumlov is a tiny town in the south of the Czech Republic. We had heard about it when we were in Budapest and decided that we would vis... Continue reading »
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Little Mother Prague
Well Prague had some great things to see, and over all it was a very picturesque city. The saying up above is just something that the locals... Continue reading »
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Withered Past Meets Present, Finally
I think we got exactly what we expected out of Berlin. It has culture, history, stories, great food and a welcoming presence of the cities wi... Continue reading »
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Nazi Beginnings
Only having one day in Nuremberg we spent the day at a very elaborate and very informative museum about the Nazi rally grounds and the Nazi party.&nbs... Continue reading » -
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Beer!
Well maybe we didn't drink as much beer in Munich as we have in other places, but Munich is known for their beer and has some good stuff to show.&n... Continue reading »
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Time for Some Kick Back
Well Freiburg was not really a planned destination. In fact we had only decided to go here the night before in Munich, so we really had no id... Continue reading »
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Little to Nothing
We knew coming into Cologne that there wasn't much to do in the town so we had thought it may be a good place to just relax for a couple of days.&n... Continue reading »
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Try the Falafels at Maos
Amsterdam was a great time. We tried to enrich our lives through seeing everything you should in Amsterdam, but of course one can not see eve... Continue reading »
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Back Into English Territory
Well we have made it back into the place where english is the first language! It's been fun trying to learn other languages but it makes it s... Continue reading »
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Bangers and Mash!
Please ask us for the story as I don't think it will be put up on the website anymore.
Thanks John
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Beatles and Football!
We saw a beatles museum but mostly ammusesd ourselves witha trip to the Liverpool FC game at night, loads of fun.
John
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One Day Left
Stayed a night before heading down to visit a cousin. Got to see my aunt and uncle again before leaaving which was great.
John
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Back to the Beggining
The End.
It was great, I got to see my cousin again before I left and saw the city where I first arrived almost six months ago.
I... Continue reading »
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