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Well.... I've done a really crappy job of keeping my blog updated with all my adventures here in Europe. I just realized that the last time I updated was in London... and well, a lot has happened since London. In fact, Paris, Brugge, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, and Vienna has happened since London. I'll do a rundown of the high points:
PARIS:
-Notre Dame; boring, quite frankly I was expecting more. Too many tourists I think.
-Eiffel tower; during the day, and sober, it was unimpressive. 2am, after an obscene amount of wine lying on the ground with all my new friends- awesome! Especially cuz is twinkles every hour on the hour for ten minutes. It was trippy and great!
-Catacombs; long tunnels filled with bones and skulls. Need I say more? (Oh, and I went through it alone... there were times when I couldn't hear anyone in front or behind me. I was getting really creeped about about half way through!)
-"The Moose"- Canadian Bar that served Moosehead; great! The bartender gave me happy hour prices all night, and even gave me a free beer!
-Famous Graveyard- saw Jim Morrision, Oscar Wilde and Chopins' graves, plus really neat Holocost memorials.
-Walking around- the city is beautiful, especially when you get away from the tourist lined street.
-Bike tour- awesome!!!!!! Biked around the city for a couple hours, and then cruised down the Seine drinking wine. Biking after the wine was more difficult.... The drinking wine under the Eiffel tower followed the Bike tour.
BRUGGE:
-Beer- belgium rocks.
-Waffles- belgium rocks.
-Chocolate- belgium rocks.
-Bike tour after which the tour guide took us to an open air rock concert after which the bassplayer (who is friends with the tour guide) lit up some joints- belguim rocks.
Need I say more? OK- there was a nice tower, and the town and country side is georgeous.
AMSTERDAM:
-Anne Frank House- neat.
-Red light district- interesting.
-"Coffee-Shopps"... I didn't go, I was only there one night.
BERLIN:
-Walking tour; hit major places: Reichstag, Checkpoint Charlie, Hitler's bunker, Potsdam Place, Big Synogoue, Brandenburg Gates, place where Micheal Jackson held the baby out the window, etc.
-Pub crawl; 5 pubs, 5 shots, and around 50 people. Enough said.
-Sachenhausen; concentration camp, very moving. Still had some of the bunkers intact.
PRAGUE:
-Don Giovanni; saw a production at the opera house where it originally priemered.
-Castel, churches and buildings; pretty.
-Charles Bridge (as seen in Mission: Impossible)- beautiful, and lined with artists. Although too crowed with tourists to really enjoy.
BUDAPEST:
-Buda Castel- pretty.
-Catacombs- creepy, I jumped out of my skin at least three or four times.
-Food- cheap and delicious.
-Time spent relaxing with Kirsty and Iain in our two star hotel room, complete with bathtub- wonderful.
-Statue park; interesting, all the old Communist Statues are placed there.
-Walking tour- crappy. The tour guide talked four at least 45 minutes about Hungarian Socialism, I want to know some, but this was too much.
VIENNA:
-Inner City Circle; fantastic buildings- opera houses, Parliment, Palace, Museums, St. Stephens Cathedral.
-Catacombs- neat cuz there was a room filled with bones from black plague victims. And the internal organs of the Hapsburg monarchs are stored in copper canisters here. Yummy!
-Leopoldburg; a little section of nature in the middle of a metropolitan Vienna. It was such a relief to get away from buildings for a while.
-Wachau Valley- vineyards and wine tasting, cycling through the valley, swimming in the Danube- wonderful.
-Zoo- hehe... it was fun! I liked the meerkats and the lemurs.
So those are the highpoints.... Next I'm onto Salsburg, then Munich, Venice, Switzerland, Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre, Nice, Barcelona, and then back to Paris and London, and hopefully Stratford-Upon-Avon.
I hope everything is going well back in Saint John! And trust me, there will be LOTS of pictures.... I think I've already taken 6 or 7 rolls of film!
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