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Trip Itinerary (Travel Blog Entries)
1	El Barco de Avila	May 28 '06	Vaughan Town "The objective at Vaughan Town is to create an English “village” where for one week someone learning English is not only immersed in the language but exposed simultaneously to several dialects or accents."
2	Pinto	Jun 02 '06	My First Surf "Would I return to the states, tail between my legs, humbled, and find one of those real jobs or would I just hide out forever in Vaughan Town?”"
3	Madrid	Jun 04 '06	A Day in Madrid, No Wait, Make that Two "I was grumpy and hot and tired but had certainly made the most of my day searching for Madrid’s redemption."
4	Cuenca	Jun 06 '06	Crazy for Cuenca "‘WOW’ simply does not adequately describe this place."
5	Pinto	Jun 07 '06	Training Days
6	Madrid	Jun 09 '06	Some Goodbyes Come Too Soon... "Carrie was full of questions about life and we sat on the porch drinking wine from a 48 cent carton until the not so wee hours of the morn."
7	Avila	Jun 09 '06	Some goodbyes don't come soon enough! "Avila - St. Teresa dos NOT live here anymore! And certainly not at the El Rastro!"
8	Reinosa	Jun 10 '06	A Quiet Reprieve "One day it is just too late to do things you kept meaning to do one day."
9	San Sebastian	Jun 12 '06	The Tides Always Turn "Skeleton buildings unfinished, abandoned buildings that had once been great palaces, and empty beaches littered with boat pieces and garbage gave the wayward tourist an eerie sense of life and death and the passing irrelevance of mankind’s fads and obsessions."
10	Barcena Mayor	Jun 14 '06	Barcena Mayor "A lovely little village in the valleys of Cantabria where time seems to have stood still."
11	Santiago de Compostela	Jun 15 '06	Santiago Compostela "There is something in the air around Santiago that speaks to me."
12	Santiago de Compostela	Jun 16 '06	The Pilgrimage to Santiago "Mankind is, I believe, at his best when engaged in sharing the spirit of joy, of accomplishment, of common experience. This is an everyday reality in the little town of Santiago de Compostela."
13	Santiago de Compostela	Jun 17 '06	Churros y chocolate
14	Santiago de Compostela	Jun 19 '06	Great Tourist Days "One of the things I am quite enjoying as a vagabond writer is the many opportunities it gives to do little things for strangers."
15	Granada	Jun 20 '06	Granada - Land of the Alhambra "Piles of ornate pillow coverings spill over from one booth into the next and beautiful skirts and blouses are hung from the doorways."
16	Seville	Jun 22 '06	Siesta in Seville - A Necesity not a Luxury! "The Cathedral is indeed an impressive sight – the Muslim and Christian religions sit side by side in architecture, Muslim domes rising on one side, the traditional bell tower of Catholicism on the other."
17	Madrid	Jun 22 '06	Just a Simple Smile "Life just feels better with a smile."
18	Barcelona	Jun 25 '06	Having a Great Time in Barcelona! "I Love this city. It is a wonderful vacation city – well organized, vibrant, relatively clean for Spain, with plenty of things to do."
19	Civitanova Marche	Jun 26 '06	Seven Days in Paradise
20	Ascoli Piceno	Jul 08 '06	Everyone Gets Their Cut
21	Assisi	Jul 09 '06	America in Assisi
22	Milan	Jul 14 '06	Milano Meanderings "Think how the world would change if everyone believed, through experience, that the people of this world could be trusted and could give trust; that people were not out to get you but to help you."
23	Geneva	Jul 15 '06	Geneva - My Tastebuds' Home Away From Home! "Geneva will forever hold a place in my heart..."
24	Montreux	Jul 16 '06	A moment of light is sometimes enough to cast a shadow of greatness "“Vladimir Nabokov?” I said the name out loud to myself – butchering it I’m sure. I had never heard of Vladimir Nabokov."
25	Fribourg	Jul 17 '06	From Montreux to Fribourg "Monday was a lovely, long, lingering day in Dmitri’s home high above Lake Geneva."
26	Bern	Jul 18 '06	Beautiful Bern "I have been discovering long forgotten memories of my little girl self as I have walked the streets and hills of Switzerland, filling me all over again with a child-like love for this fairy tale land"
27	Gruyeres	Jul 20 '06	Heidi Where Are You Hiding? "If you made a Crayola box and filled it with every shade of you can see off the shore of the islands in the Caribbean, you could find a lake that color in Switzerland."
28	Fribourg	Jul 20 '06	Switzerland Gets An A++ "Whatever creates this tranquility, this connectedness, it warms my heart to see that man can live in modern times and still retain his connection with tradition and nature. For this Switzerland definitely gets an A++"
29	Grindelwald	Jul 21 '06	Dumb Blonde American Survives Mountain Hike "I sat on the train, mouth agape, at the mountains and hills, little towns, and the steel grey rivers rushing from the glaciers still melting above."
30	Rheineck	Jul 25 '06	Writing in Walzenhousen "Appenzell was almost annyoingly adorable."
31	Vienna	Jul 26 '06	Unbelievable Luck!
32	Eisenstadt	Jul 27 '06	It's Not What You See, It's Who You Meet "Commune living, along with studying abroad, should be an educational requirement."
33	Vienna	Jul 31 '06	Envious of the Viennese "Again and again I saw families walking through the streets or in the parks, laughing, joking, telling stories – completely engaged with one another."
34	Salzburg	Aug 02 '06	The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Mozart "But the real attraction to this small, quaint riverside city is its fortune of having been the birthplace of Mozart – never mind that he had little love for the city and spent most of his life elsewhere."
35	Fussen	Aug 03 '06	The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Really... "It definitely wasn’t the fairytale day I had imagined for seeing Neuschwanstein – the storybook castle built by Mad Ludwig and the castle that served as Walt Disney’s inspiration for the universally known Disney icon. I"
36	Bamberg	Aug 04 '06	Bam, Bam, Bamberg "Can you hear the beer mugs? Bam! Bam! Bam! in time on the long wooden plank tables…."
37	Berlin	Aug 07 '06	Broadband in Berlin "can you tell I have decidedly taken the day off and have time to mentally meander?)"
38	Berlin	Aug 08 '06	Buzz Through Berlin "This is not a city you meander through. Berlin must be attacked, strategically, with a plan."
39	Szczecin	Aug 09 '06	Szczecin "Time may fly when you are having fun, but it lingers where there is love and laughter."
40	Copenhagen	Aug 12 '06	It's The Little Things In Life "The greatest sacrifices in traveling are often the little things we take for granted in everyday life - curling up with a good book wrapped up in your favorite blanket, renting a movie after a long hard day at work, having a drink with a friend, doing laundry, home cooked meals"
41	Copenhagen	Aug 12 '06	The Danes Got It Down! "Copenhagen is the land of cuties. Let me assure you ladies and gents, the next time you want to fetch yourself a new love interest, forget about the Caribbean – head to Copenhagen."
42	Copenhagen	Aug 15 '06	Calling on Copenhagen "The sculptor, though relatively unknown, brings to life beautifully the emotion of the lost little mermaid. She seems to be entirely within herself, reflecting on some deep loss while at the same time nursing the slightest embryo of hope that the loss is not forever."
43	Stockholm	Aug 16 '06	Sweep Through Sweden
44	Helsinki	Aug 18 '06	The Finns - Fireworks and Firewater "We walked through Esplanade Park, Helsinki’s favorite promenade, which was brimming with street performers on a sunny summer Saturday."
45	Tallinn	Aug 20 '06	Tourin' Tallinn "Cute young girls with pug noses and pigtail braids dressed as wenches from days of old serve up village friendliness at wooden plank tables offering ceramic mugs full of ale in an interesting array of flavors including honey, cinnamon, and heavy herb."
46	Tampere	Aug 23 '06	Funny Finn Train Travel "I don’t know about you, but I’d be scared poopless if I were a Chihuahua and a bear-hunting dog was sniffing my testicles!"
47	Rovaniemi	Aug 24 '06	Guess Who I Met?! "He looked like a fairly robust Santa but I don’t think anyone would want me sitting on their lap twenty minutes, well, not with clothes on any way…."
48	Rovaniemi	Aug 24 '06	Rovaniemi Reindeer "I could barely say yes I was so excited running from reindeer to reindeer petting them and shooting pictures at the same time."
49	Hell	Aug 25 '06	The Twenty-Four Hour Road To Hell "Where the Hell is Hell?"
50	Trondheim	Aug 27 '06	Trip Through Trondheim
51	Alesund	Aug 28 '06	Alesund "And here words fail…. And yet what can I do but try – pure isolation, air clear as a hurricane swept island the day after, to the right islands dropped in the water like fall leaves on a lake, the coastline rising dramatically to the left, water sometimes blue like an autumn sky other times dark like oil shimmering in the sunlight, mirror-like images of the clouds above upon the water disturbed only by the ripples of our passing barge; nature dressed in her most beautiful gown accentuated only by her natural beauty."
52	Maloy	Aug 29 '06	Someone Give That Girl A Soapbox "Who fed us the plate of crow that said we can’t make a difference?"
53	Bergen	Aug 31 '06	Bergen
54	Oslo	Sep 02 '06	7-Elevens Rock! "Okay – I admit it. I’m having an affair. I’ve fallen in love with 7-Eleven."
55	Oslo	Sep 03 '06	Changes "We’ve all had a sense of time flying or time dragging but this was different, time was palpably changed."
56	Cologne	Sep 09 '06	Cologne
57	Rotterdam	Sep 12 '06	When in Rome.... "Half the joint and about ten minutes later it starts. Paranoia."
58	Paris	Sep 17 '06	Connections and Community (and parties in Paris!) "Imagine if you could see the whole world that way? The person you know who knows the person who knows a person you think you are unconnected with. Could we still drop bombs? Would we still need to?"
59	Oignies	Sep 18 '06	Life's Coincidences a/k/a Answered Prayers "I saw in him the wide-eyed amazement for the world and the interconnectedness of all things that I had, I realized in that moment, been slowly losing."
60	Oignies	Sep 23 '06	The Power of Perspective "I closed my eyes and drifted into a heavenly reverie that had lasted almost a minute when suddenly it was pierced by a flashback image of Friday the 13th."
61	Oignies	Sep 24 '06	Where's Waterloo?? "Where do these 8 year old scenes in our minds come from?"
62	Paris	Sep 26 '06	An Affair to Remember
63	Mont Saint Michel	Sep 30 '06	Mont Saint Michel
64	Paris	Oct 01 '06	An Affair to Remember Continues
65	Ascoli Piceno	Oct 04 '06	Home Again
66	Ascoli	Oct 05 '06	The Journey of Creation "I will give it to you, to the world, freely, to do with it as you wish with only the hope that it can fill you with the love and possibility that I feel as I give birth to this dream."
67	Ascoli	Oct 11 '06	A Day in the Life of a Dreamer "Maria is snipping bunches of grapes and tossing them into the bucket. “Ciao Bionda! Vieni, vieni.”"

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