Banana:
Well what do you say to having an amazing time of your life, to be given this once in a life time opportuinty.... We honeslty have been so lucky on this trip, to the things we have seen to the great people we have met along the way.... I only wish to those of you who have not had the experience like this please just take the chance and do it.... DO NOT have REGRETS!!!!!
I just want to thank my MOMMA so much for the support and for Shannon and that Tuesday where you randomly txtd me saying " wanna just say fuck it and go to Greece" lol... If we never went and saw that stupid movie would we have done this???? Oh well we did and it has been nothing but amazing, am glad we did this trip and on such a whim too of all things planned it in 4weeks yes were crazy but whateves we did it and proved to all of you we could and we will continue to do it more....
Thank you for all reading our blog and supporting us along the way!! see you soon love you all xoxoxo
Friday, October 30, 2009
our final days!!!! :( :)
Banana:
SO we spent our last four days in Europe in Amsterdam, its beautiful there and all the people, were pretty chill n nice..... We basically just hung out allot in the main square and well we got high!!!! I mean we were in Amsterdam and of course that's all everyone goes there to do!!! We also did the red light district and of course it was not what we expected... We actually did not like it all we found it so sad to watch all these young women selling themselves, and a few of them were probably no older than 16 if that.... But the in the year 2015 all of the red light district will no longer exists, the Netherlands government wants it gone now.... oh and marijuana is actually not legal in amsterdam, the government is so tired of wasting time and money on ppl smoking it that they jsut turned a blind eye to it all now... they have closed down over 200 cafes now, but over 200 are still up and running. Our final night in Amsterdam we just vegged watched a movie and kinda of just took it allin because we were flying back to the Uk the next day.... So we go tup the next morning packed our bags for one of the last times and walked around town for a few hours and checked out a few markets and took in all we have done over the last three months...
We flew into Gatwick arriving at 9pm and yet another time change in London lol..... we found our hsotel after a train ride to it and a metro line to it lol... didnt get ther until 1130pm.... then the next day we went to check out portabello road( the one with mary poppins movie) but ya it was closed so we headed up the famos soho or oxford street to do a little last min shooping and souvieners... then next day we went to a famous alternative market called Cameden market and honestly it was probably one of our favs, it had amazing art work and vintage shops and awesome little things.... Very diffrent crowd and great little food vendors :) For dinner we headed to a little local pub to have one of our final dinners out and just sat and talked then finished up with us stopping ot grabb another bottle of vino lol and just veg....
Today we went to Hyde park and walked around for a bit and went to Kensigton palace, where princess Diana lived and just took it all in again, now we are heading to our hotel for our last night in the UK and then heading home 2mrw afternoon....
Bitter sweet!!!
SO we spent our last four days in Europe in Amsterdam, its beautiful there and all the people, were pretty chill n nice..... We basically just hung out allot in the main square and well we got high!!!! I mean we were in Amsterdam and of course that's all everyone goes there to do!!! We also did the red light district and of course it was not what we expected... We actually did not like it all we found it so sad to watch all these young women selling themselves, and a few of them were probably no older than 16 if that.... But the in the year 2015 all of the red light district will no longer exists, the Netherlands government wants it gone now.... oh and marijuana is actually not legal in amsterdam, the government is so tired of wasting time and money on ppl smoking it that they jsut turned a blind eye to it all now... they have closed down over 200 cafes now, but over 200 are still up and running. Our final night in Amsterdam we just vegged watched a movie and kinda of just took it allin because we were flying back to the Uk the next day.... So we go tup the next morning packed our bags for one of the last times and walked around town for a few hours and checked out a few markets and took in all we have done over the last three months...
We flew into Gatwick arriving at 9pm and yet another time change in London lol..... we found our hsotel after a train ride to it and a metro line to it lol... didnt get ther until 1130pm.... then the next day we went to check out portabello road( the one with mary poppins movie) but ya it was closed so we headed up the famos soho or oxford street to do a little last min shooping and souvieners... then next day we went to a famous alternative market called Cameden market and honestly it was probably one of our favs, it had amazing art work and vintage shops and awesome little things.... Very diffrent crowd and great little food vendors :) For dinner we headed to a little local pub to have one of our final dinners out and just sat and talked then finished up with us stopping ot grabb another bottle of vino lol and just veg....
Today we went to Hyde park and walked around for a bit and went to Kensigton palace, where princess Diana lived and just took it all in again, now we are heading to our hotel for our last night in the UK and then heading home 2mrw afternoon....
Bitter sweet!!!
goodbye to eu 09 :( :)
bambam:
soooo we leave tomorrow morning!! :( i cant believe how fast this trip went!!! it seems like just yesterday we were leaving and now we.re heading home already! but i wouldnt change this experience for anything..it has been so amazing and we are so so fortunate. we met some really amazing people and made friendships that are going to last forever. we saw the most beautiful sights and had great expierences in all the 13 different countries we visited!! theres places i will deffinetly go back too and spend more time there and theres soo many more places i plan on visiting in the future as well. I learned so much about myself and the world on this trip and im so happy i did it...the best joke i ever made right han! ;) well i guess this is it! i hope everyone enjoyed reading it and we.ll add some more pictures as well!
xoxoxox
soooo we leave tomorrow morning!! :( i cant believe how fast this trip went!!! it seems like just yesterday we were leaving and now we.re heading home already! but i wouldnt change this experience for anything..it has been so amazing and we are so so fortunate. we met some really amazing people and made friendships that are going to last forever. we saw the most beautiful sights and had great expierences in all the 13 different countries we visited!! theres places i will deffinetly go back too and spend more time there and theres soo many more places i plan on visiting in the future as well. I learned so much about myself and the world on this trip and im so happy i did it...the best joke i ever made right han! ;) well i guess this is it! i hope everyone enjoyed reading it and we.ll add some more pictures as well!
xoxoxox
Saturday, October 24, 2009
tourists in the rain
bambam:prague,berlin and amsterdam
So i dont have any notes for this blog so im just gonna try and remember what we,ve done in the last week or so right now! ya right....
sooo in prague we mostly spent our days shopping! lol it rained and was freezzing cold almost everyday so we mostly tried to stay inside the heater stores lol. we did bear the freezing cold weather one day for a free walking tour! it was 3 hours long and by the end of it..no one really cared what he was tlaking about anymore we were frozen!! we made a bee line to the mall to warm up!! hahah we also choose to go to a warm english theatre one night!! we went to see inglourious bastards and when we got there we found out it was only 70-30 english and french n german...yaaa turned out more 50 50 lol but it was still a good movie! another night we went to a hockey game!! it was so cool...they were pretty minor league but had a whole group of fans at the end of the rink cheering for the WHOLE game...SPARTA SPARTA...and after 3 periods..kidnaa annoying lol they also had ACTUAL cheerleaders! in an ice areana..wearing minimal clothes..strange haha
On our last 2 nights in prague the irish girls flew over to see us!! so the 6 of us all had a shared dorm in prague! when they got there i showed them around town and we had some hot wine...which i am addicted to now! soo good..im getting the recipe! then that nght the 6 of us...2 canadians 2 aussie and 2 irish all went on a pub crawl!! it was pretty cool...free beer and free shots! a couple of the bars were pretty cool and the last 2 were just ok...all in all a good night! th next day we went to our favourite resterant the bohemian bagel and had breakfast which was delicous! then spent the day wondering town...had a nap and then went out for dinner..we went to this cute little resteraunt and were having a great time until they brought out our food haha shitty portions and they didnt take off sarahs anchovies and then tried to serve her the same pizza and then argues with us all about it lol to funny we went out on the town again and this time we went to a bigger club and had a blast...
the next day the irish girls left and we headed to berliN! a pretty hungover train ride and a relaxing night in berlin that day!!
our first day in berlin we wondered around the main square for a bit and then we went on another free walking tour!! this one wasnt as cooold but still cold! we saw alot of really cool things on it as well! we saw the berlin wall and hitlers bunker.and alot more berlin is a really interesting city. the next day we went to the sachsenhausen concentration camp. its something so hard to describe...the feeling there...it was really a humbling experience seeing the things that the human race are possible and of and the amount of pain that people endured and the conditions they were forced to live in an how far we.ve come now. it was a really really amazing experience.
that ngiht was another chill night after being in the freezing cold all day!
the next day we went to the east side gallery..its basically the longest remaining part of the berlin wall and each section a different artist has painted on it..there were some really amazing paintings there...really different and interesting. after that we wondered around some shops and then went to the anne frank musuem. again a really cool experience..all the old photos they had of the war and the diary entries by anne frank used as quotes everywhere...it was really sad actually...really makes u think about ur life and how much we have and how much we all take for granted!
that night we got some chinese and then went out to a club in east germany really cool club...sweet music and we danced until about 4am when the sbahn was free again and then went home! lol
we had to be up at 8am the next day for our train to amsterdam...ya ew. nottt fun. about a 6 hr train so when we got here it was dinner and sleep! we had english tv so we watched a movie and chilllled. felt great!
the next day we went into town and wondered the streets and the markets. IN THE RAIN we also went to a "coffee" shop but had no id so we couldnt sit inside...soo we went home...and were going to go back out but got a litttlee tired! ;) so we went to a cute little pub by our hotel and had an amazingg dinner...actual home cooked food which was delicious the pub was sooo loud tho dutch people singing and yelling over the loud music lol good times....we stayed in again and watched some mtv and slept early!
today is off to wonder town again...going to do the free walking tour and then go hang out at a coffee shop with some girls from our hostel and then check out the red light district tongiht!
this trip has been sooo amazing and we both realize how extremely lucky we are! sorry about the blog being all over the place this time...its hard to get the time to sit down and write it!!
love u all
xoxoxo
that ngiht was another chill night after being in the freezing cold all day!
the next day we went to the east side gallery..its basically the longest remaining part of the berlin wall and each section a different artist has painted on it..there were some really amazing paintings there...really different and interesting. after that we wondered around some shops and then went to the anne frank musuem. again a really cool experience..all the old photos they had of the war and the diary entries by anne frank used as quotes everywhere...it was really sad actually...really makes u think about ur life and how much we have and how much we all take for granted!
that night we got some chinese and then went out to a club in east germany really cool club...sweet music and we danced until about 4am when the sbahn was free again and then went home! lol
we had to be up at 8am the next day for our train to amsterdam...ya ew. nottt fun. about a 6 hr train so when we got here it was dinner and sleep! we had english tv so we watched a movie and chilllled. felt great!
the next day we went into town and wondered the streets and the markets. IN THE RAIN we also went to a "coffee" shop but had no id so we couldnt sit inside...soo we went home...and were going to go back out but got a litttlee tired! ;) so we went to a cute little pub by our hotel and had an amazingg dinner...actual home cooked food which was delicious the pub was sooo loud tho dutch people singing and yelling over the loud music lol good times....we stayed in again and watched some mtv and slept early!
today is off to wonder town again...going to do the free walking tour and then go hang out at a coffee shop with some girls from our hostel and then check out the red light district tongiht!
this trip has been sooo amazing and we both realize how extremely lucky we are! sorry about the blog being all over the place this time...its hard to get the time to sit down and write it!!
love u all
xoxoxo
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The places we added along the way!!!!!
Banana: Austria (Innsbruck, Vienna) Czech Repbulic(Prague)
Sooo last Shan had left off was us just arriving in Austria Innsbruck, this was not in the plan from the start of our trip but when you have a EuroRail pass the opportuinity is much easier to hope on a train last min and see where it takes you. Our first night arriving we got there late because of wrong information so we missed our original train yet again another one missed not to pleased!! But we made it there in one piece at 11pm... Oh an dthe owner of the hostel was not so pleased with us at all... We were put in a 8 bedroom doorm room with all boys, which we didnt understand because it was empty, but whatever they were pretty nice guys... It happens that two of the guys in our room wwere from BC and from Maple Ridge of all palces and I lknow there sisters.... Its such a small world!!!! Our first full day there we just went into the little town which we walked along the river to get too, it was very beautiful and very nice warm weather still. We had lunch at a little cafe and just walked around town in the shops and just explored... Later we decided to have a picnic in the park by the river with two bottles of VINO suprising NOT lol.... WE went there around 6pm and didnt head back until after dark it was so nice and relaxing from the previous 10days of no stop. Vienna we got there later in the day and it was pouring rain out and cold soo we decided to do our laundry saty in catch up on some stuff and make a home cooked meal!!! meaning SOUP lol!!!! The next day we went to see this famous castle in Vienna but yet again it was pouring out and we were freezinf\g but we sucked it up and went!!! It was worth irt even with the rain because of all the views from the main look out point were amazing!! We caught the tram after the castle headed into town to the shops to just loook around and get warm lol..,.. went back early made a nice dinner and went to bed early!! The next morning we had an early train to catch atr 10am to meet the Aussie girls in Czech Repblic (prague).... so we caught a 4 hour train ride to the girls to start our little reuinion all over, oh and our girlfriends from Ireland had messaged us to tell us they were coming to Prague top meet us for the following weekend to party!!!! woot woot!!!! We arrived in Prague realzing we needed to learn a new currency yet again soo not fun when you are soo use to the Euros!!!! makes it difficult and a BITCH!!!! Anywyas we caught the metro towards our hostel and yes yet again we got lost!!!!! I dnt think there is one place yet where we have not got lost in yet!!!! lol We arrived at our hostle and it was a saturday n they were advertising a pub crawl of 4 bars and you drink for free as much as you can before you leave there bar within an hour! soooo we started with 2 bottles of vino and then worked our way to voldka , free shots and a good game of KINGS CUP with some british ppl we had met!!! needless to say we made it to one pub and were at our hostle by 12am, yes we are very SAD!!!! lol oh and then we had some random guy come knocking on our door saying he was security but really he just wanted us to come party, and then he brought this hole Polish soccer team into our room so we had about 10 non speaking English boys in our room just staring at us!! So bella and I convienced them we would change and come down to get rid of them, but we never went down!!!!! Oh and then we ahd them come knocking on our door at 730am and would not leave us alone for about 45mins!!!! SOoo when we rolled out of bed it wasw about 11am with pretty bad hangovers, we got ourselves togethter and headed to town to see the old square of Prague and to shop for some warm clothes as we had dropped temperatures drastically within days!!! We basically have shopped everyday since we have been in Prague because its so cheap!!!! :) On our final night at our hostle we all suddenly woke up at 1am, not just one of us but all of us and we satyed up till 3am talking about the war and Mirrior Kats why i have no idea but it was pretty funny to us lol!!!!The next day we had to switch hostel and we were moving closer to the main square in Prague within walking distance!!!! We made the Aussie girls there first real thanksgiving dinner and it was one of the best meals we have made so far! Its been raing here alot on and off aand all we have been doing is walking around trying to keep warm! On our secoind night at this hostel we wanted to see an english movie sooo we went to the Inglourios Basterders and we were told it was 70 percent english the rest in French /German, try more like 50/50 sooo not impressed!!!We went on a free walking tour of the History of Prague and teh war and our tour guide was crazy!!!! Lets just say hes a little to honest!!!! We were Freezing our butts off and it was about 2 degrees out! We were on the tour for about 3 and a half hours, when it was over we basically ran to the mall in the main square to warm up and buy leg warmers!!!! we were suppose to go out fo rdinner but we said screw it because we were to cold! We came home made soup and sandwhiches and it was great!!!
Today we woke up to light snow and the Aussie girls have never seen snow fall so it was pretty exciting to see them get excited about it, even though its not sticking its still pretty cool, but really cold! Todays weather is 1degrees but they say it feels like -1degrees!!! oH and our heater in our room isnt always working so we are freezing to death.... We walked to see the Castle in Prague in the snow the church on the grounnds was alot nicer looking than the castel it self! but i guess after seeing so many of the samethings everything starts to look the same lol!!!! Now we are heading out again in the freezing weather yes were crazy but hey we are now taking in as much as we can before we have to leave, which by the way we DONT WANT too!!!!! But i hope you enjoyed this blog!!! Miss you all love you!!!!!
Ps. the Aussie girls are coming for a visit to Canada in November woot woot!!!!!
Sooo last Shan had left off was us just arriving in Austria Innsbruck, this was not in the plan from the start of our trip but when you have a EuroRail pass the opportuinity is much easier to hope on a train last min and see where it takes you. Our first night arriving we got there late because of wrong information so we missed our original train yet again another one missed not to pleased!! But we made it there in one piece at 11pm... Oh an dthe owner of the hostel was not so pleased with us at all... We were put in a 8 bedroom doorm room with all boys, which we didnt understand because it was empty, but whatever they were pretty nice guys... It happens that two of the guys in our room wwere from BC and from Maple Ridge of all palces and I lknow there sisters.... Its such a small world!!!! Our first full day there we just went into the little town which we walked along the river to get too, it was very beautiful and very nice warm weather still. We had lunch at a little cafe and just walked around town in the shops and just explored... Later we decided to have a picnic in the park by the river with two bottles of VINO suprising NOT lol.... WE went there around 6pm and didnt head back until after dark it was so nice and relaxing from the previous 10days of no stop. Vienna we got there later in the day and it was pouring rain out and cold soo we decided to do our laundry saty in catch up on some stuff and make a home cooked meal!!! meaning SOUP lol!!!! The next day we went to see this famous castle in Vienna but yet again it was pouring out and we were freezinf\g but we sucked it up and went!!! It was worth irt even with the rain because of all the views from the main look out point were amazing!! We caught the tram after the castle headed into town to the shops to just loook around and get warm lol..,.. went back early made a nice dinner and went to bed early!! The next morning we had an early train to catch atr 10am to meet the Aussie girls in Czech Repblic (prague).... so we caught a 4 hour train ride to the girls to start our little reuinion all over, oh and our girlfriends from Ireland had messaged us to tell us they were coming to Prague top meet us for the following weekend to party!!!! woot woot!!!! We arrived in Prague realzing we needed to learn a new currency yet again soo not fun when you are soo use to the Euros!!!! makes it difficult and a BITCH!!!! Anywyas we caught the metro towards our hostel and yes yet again we got lost!!!!! I dnt think there is one place yet where we have not got lost in yet!!!! lol We arrived at our hostle and it was a saturday n they were advertising a pub crawl of 4 bars and you drink for free as much as you can before you leave there bar within an hour! soooo we started with 2 bottles of vino and then worked our way to voldka , free shots and a good game of KINGS CUP with some british ppl we had met!!! needless to say we made it to one pub and were at our hostle by 12am, yes we are very SAD!!!! lol oh and then we had some random guy come knocking on our door saying he was security but really he just wanted us to come party, and then he brought this hole Polish soccer team into our room so we had about 10 non speaking English boys in our room just staring at us!! So bella and I convienced them we would change and come down to get rid of them, but we never went down!!!!! Oh and then we ahd them come knocking on our door at 730am and would not leave us alone for about 45mins!!!! SOoo when we rolled out of bed it wasw about 11am with pretty bad hangovers, we got ourselves togethter and headed to town to see the old square of Prague and to shop for some warm clothes as we had dropped temperatures drastically within days!!! We basically have shopped everyday since we have been in Prague because its so cheap!!!! :) On our final night at our hostle we all suddenly woke up at 1am, not just one of us but all of us and we satyed up till 3am talking about the war and Mirrior Kats why i have no idea but it was pretty funny to us lol!!!!The next day we had to switch hostel and we were moving closer to the main square in Prague within walking distance!!!! We made the Aussie girls there first real thanksgiving dinner and it was one of the best meals we have made so far! Its been raing here alot on and off aand all we have been doing is walking around trying to keep warm! On our secoind night at this hostel we wanted to see an english movie sooo we went to the Inglourios Basterders and we were told it was 70 percent english the rest in French /German, try more like 50/50 sooo not impressed!!!We went on a free walking tour of the History of Prague and teh war and our tour guide was crazy!!!! Lets just say hes a little to honest!!!! We were Freezing our butts off and it was about 2 degrees out! We were on the tour for about 3 and a half hours, when it was over we basically ran to the mall in the main square to warm up and buy leg warmers!!!! we were suppose to go out fo rdinner but we said screw it because we were to cold! We came home made soup and sandwhiches and it was great!!!
Today we woke up to light snow and the Aussie girls have never seen snow fall so it was pretty exciting to see them get excited about it, even though its not sticking its still pretty cool, but really cold! Todays weather is 1degrees but they say it feels like -1degrees!!! oH and our heater in our room isnt always working so we are freezing to death.... We walked to see the Castle in Prague in the snow the church on the grounnds was alot nicer looking than the castel it self! but i guess after seeing so many of the samethings everything starts to look the same lol!!!! Now we are heading out again in the freezing weather yes were crazy but hey we are now taking in as much as we can before we have to leave, which by the way we DONT WANT too!!!!! But i hope you enjoyed this blog!!! Miss you all love you!!!!!
Ps. the Aussie girls are coming for a visit to Canada in November woot woot!!!!!
Monday, October 5, 2009
10 days cramed into a crazyy europe trip
bambam:
ok everyone im sorryy it has been sooo long but the last10 days have been go go go and have not had anyy time to write the blog!! so im going to break down each city now for you...ive got notes..lots and lots of notes lol
ok here goes
MADRIDok everyone im sorryy it has been sooo long but the last10 days have been go go go and have not had anyy time to write the blog!! so im going to break down each city now for you...ive got notes..lots and lots of notes lol
ok here goes
well we took an awful overnight train from lisbon to madrid which was hell! nooo ac and is smelt like shit.we-re in agreement that overnight trains suck ass!! lol but we made it to madrid and basically we did a quick tour of the city saw the castel and cathedral...another one!! ah and then shopped!! needed some winter clothes as we.re leaving the sun behind in portugal :( in spain we once again had mcd cuz their food is shit and spent the next day pretty much doing the same thing...all in all madrid not so eventful!!
PARIS
sooo we took an all day train to paris with a 4 hour stop over pretty boring!!! ithink ive actually read over 20 books on this trip now and hanas not to far behind!! haha we got to paris at about midnight to our hostel and we were staying in a dorm room with 2 other people...well one was sleeping and one was awake and he was like yelling at us to turn out the light at midnight when all we wanted to do was shower and sleep!!! hana was none to impressed with this asain lol
the next day we woke up early to go ssee the eiffel tower!!! i cant even describe how amazing it was and yesss i know i overexaggerate alot but seriously this was unreal it is hugee and so beautiful!! we stayed there for about 3 hours taking pics, had a crepe with nutella n banana mhhh and it was family fun day at the park there so we checked that out for a bit,..it was such a gorgeous day out but we decided to wait until night time to go up the eiffel tower so we left to go buy souvieners and met thse 2 guys at the stand and they kept giving us deals and then asked us to go out for a glass of champagne with them for his bday! lol so we said we-d come back later and we left to check out some famous street in paris ..cant remmeber the name now tho lol seen so many damn famous streets...its just shopping with a big statue!! lol anyways our feet killed from our new boots so we went back to meet the guys n went for a glass of champagne that he bought hehe so that was cool!! then it was home to get ready for the eiffel tower and going out at night! we decided to wear our new stilleto heals to the eiffel tower and out...why we thought this was a good idea ill never know!! we had to walk in a train station for like 8hrs just to get to another train to get tothe eiffel tower and by the time we GOT there they already hurt!! haha good thing the eiffel tower was absolutely breathtaking that it helped us to forget for a little bit how bad our feet hurt haha we took about a thosand pics of it...i reallly couldnt stop!! then went to the top floor and took more pics!!! it was the most amazingg view...one of the most amazing things we have seen yet even with hurting feet we still enjoyed it soo much! by the time we got down tho we werre both in agreement that we were not going out in these shoes!! so we justsat for a while staring at it and then went home for the night!
the next morning was the louvre!! it was HUGEEEE this building is massive and inside is impossible to navigate!! we went straight for the mona lisa but stopped for pictures of everything along the way lol the mona lisa was pretty cool u cant get very close to it tho and u have to push ur way to the front of the crowd to try and get a picture of it!! but nonetheless it was cool to see such a historical piece of artwork! we also saw a pretty cool tomb of a sphinx and the rest was pictures and statues! after about 3 hrs we were done and hungry!
we went to the eiffel tower,,again!! to have a picnic!! we bought fresh bagettes, salami, and brie cheese and 2 bottles ofwine :) we sat underneath the eiffel tower and ate and drank and talked for about 3hrs!! it was one of the best afternoons we.ve had here and really started to appreciate just how lucky we are to be here!! ihope everyone gets to see the eiffel tower one day it really was soo special.
that evening after the picnic we were a littleee tipsyyy haha sowe had more wine and left over pizza and called it an early night!
BORDEAUX
the next day we left for bordeaux...we didnt get directions to our hotel and got sooo bloody lost and couldnt find a taxi sooo frusterating! but by the time we made it there our hotel was worth it! we had our own kitchen and a bath tub!! lol so after a 2hrs excursion to get damn groceries we both had a bath (seperatly!!) haha and then went to bed for an early day the next day!
we had planned to do a wine tour this day but when we made it to town it was already booked up!! soooo dissapointing seeing how this was one thing i was really looking forward too! but the lady said we could still go to the town and walk around and do wine tasting and see the wine caves and winerys.
sooo that was the only option...hana wasnt feeling up to it so i decided to go alone since i didnt want to miss out on the wine tour. it was a gorgeous little town and i just wondered up the little stone streets and saw rows and rows and rroowss of vines and huge castles. I found the wine caves and went into them...it was crazy!!! ive never seen so much wine in my life!!! bottles and bottles of it lined up everywhere and all full!!!! but i was down there seriously alll alone and i was so freaked out that i didnt stay to long lol after i did a bunch of wine tasting and watched a lil info video on making wine which was reallyy cool! then i just sat in a little park alone and drank some wine and hungout...really not the same drinking wine byurself but it was a really beautiful quiet little town and i really enjoyed myself!
the next day we were leaving for paris to get to munich...welll we didnt plan our time to well and for the first time in europe we missed our train!!! sooo lame luckily a train left in 2hrs so we got on that one and got to paris at 4ish welll we had 1hr at this time to catch another train to cologne where we were meeting ashley to go to munich the next day!! so we hauled ass only to find out it was full!!! thennn we hauled ass to a diff train station to try somewhere else and thatt was full! soo we had to go back to the OTHER train station and try something else!! realllyy very frusterating day! we finally got on a train that got us into cologne at 2am where we were suppose to meet ashleyy butt we couldnt find her sooooooooooo we slept at the train station at mcds!! AHHHH it was so awful...well i didnt sleep hana did just a tiny bit..luckily tho our train leftfor munich at 7am and we found ashley at 655 haha but it all worked out on we were on our way to munich!
MUNICH
got to munich around 12 and had a repeat of bordeaux, got stupid lost trying to find our hotel!! ah but finally we made it and our taxi driver offer to drive us to town for free!! so we had 5mins to drop offour bags check in and change lol 3 girls..noteasyyy plus had to sneak hana in as it was only for 2 ppl! lol but we made it! and we got to town and set off looking for oktoberfest! along the way we looked for dindels!! we decided if we were going to oktoberfest we might as well go all out!!! so we bought dindels!!!!!! and were so excited to wear them!! that day tho we justwent to oktoberfest and looked around...i had no idea it was a fair like the pne!! so may rides! the tents though were INSANE! there was thousandssssss of people inside sitting at tables standing everywhere drinking HUGE beers!! we checked out a few and then i had a beer n a pretzel:)...then left to get a good nights sleep for the next day!!...got lost again going back to the hotel..dont ask ugh.
OKTOBERFEST
this gets its own post...it was crazyy!! we woke up at 445!!!!!!!!! ran aroundgettin our dindels on hehe and then were out the door at 515am ! RAN to the train station to get our train to town which didnt end up coming until 6am it took about 50mins to get to town and then we RAN through the train station and the streets of munich..in our dindels to get to oktoberfest!! then weRAN thro oktoberfest trying to find the tent that ashleys german friends were at and the best one...we needed to be thereby 7!! we got there at 710 and the lineup wasnt tooo bad!! 5minslater...doubled in size!! i cant believe how many people get up that early on a sat to drink beer!!!! the lineup was 8times as big by the time we got to move a bit at 8 and then we were fairly close to inside...i should mention they DO NOT line up the way we do at home...there is nosuch thing as single file..or standing to close to someone..or no smoking...or any order really...just push!!! haha o god...so finally at 845 we got to PUSH into oktoberfest! worth it though since we got an awesome table and within 15mins had our first beer!!! a HUGE beer!! and we had a dougnut!! mhh then it was just drinking and everyone would cheers all at the same time...thousands of people in the tent! then at 1030 am the band started!! EVERYONE stood up on there benches and sang and drank!! we did this for hourrss! had about 4 beers...they are massive...sang a bunch of german songs and pretty much had the best day!! (the lineup to pee tho) OMG abouttt100 girls NO STRAIGHT LINES just shove and try and get in..took about 40mins! INSANE...but it was sooo worth it...some point in the day we also had chicken which was delicous! and then drankmore beer!! haha it is to hard to explain how cool it was but we havetoonss of pics and videos to show u guys!! we left around 530 to go get our bags from our hotel and bring them to ashleys friends placein muncih...took for everrr but we had some wine and some dinner and danced in the train lol we got to there place and decided to go to a club!!hana stayed in so me n ash n her 2 german friends went out! itwas a really cool club and we stayed out dancing until about 3am!! such a fun day!! such a longggggggday ahahha but oktoberfest was deffinetly a highlight for us!!
SWITZERLAND
the next day we slept in ahah and then left for switzerland...we met up with ashleys friend there and went to our hostel..bed early after the night before!!
the next day we did atour of switzerland..basically a 3hr boat ride on lake lucern and then 6hrs on trains...it wasbeautiful but we are sooo sick of trains that by the time it was over we were over mnts and lakes lol it was another early night
the next day we split up and hana and i decided to go up mnt rigi. we took a boat there and then we took a cog train ..the first ever mnt railway in europe! going up the views were sooo beautiful and the top was breathtaking...about 30mins up to panoramic views of the alps,13 lakes, and central switzerland..sooo beautiful! we walked from the top for about 45mins down to anther point where u can get on the cog train it was a really nice walk and we had time to sit and take it all in...veryy beautiful! boat back to the train station and then on a train to austria!! we wanted out of switzerland asap...as pretty as it is it is sooooooooo fucking expensive!!! like 13dollarsfor burgerkingand 12dollars for my pasta...STUPIDDDD haha anyways of coursewe-re dumb and had the wrong train station so we didnt get into austria until late last ngiht!
AUSTRIA
idont know we just got here its prettty but im sooooooo done writing this now!! ahha hana will update next...and ihope sooneer for her sake and urs!! haha
love u all xoxoxooxox
the next morning was the louvre!! it was HUGEEEE this building is massive and inside is impossible to navigate!! we went straight for the mona lisa but stopped for pictures of everything along the way lol the mona lisa was pretty cool u cant get very close to it tho and u have to push ur way to the front of the crowd to try and get a picture of it!! but nonetheless it was cool to see such a historical piece of artwork! we also saw a pretty cool tomb of a sphinx and the rest was pictures and statues! after about 3 hrs we were done and hungry!
we went to the eiffel tower,,again!! to have a picnic!! we bought fresh bagettes, salami, and brie cheese and 2 bottles ofwine :) we sat underneath the eiffel tower and ate and drank and talked for about 3hrs!! it was one of the best afternoons we.ve had here and really started to appreciate just how lucky we are to be here!! ihope everyone gets to see the eiffel tower one day it really was soo special.
that evening after the picnic we were a littleee tipsyyy haha sowe had more wine and left over pizza and called it an early night!
BORDEAUX
the next day we left for bordeaux...we didnt get directions to our hotel and got sooo bloody lost and couldnt find a taxi sooo frusterating! but by the time we made it there our hotel was worth it! we had our own kitchen and a bath tub!! lol so after a 2hrs excursion to get damn groceries we both had a bath (seperatly!!) haha and then went to bed for an early day the next day!
we had planned to do a wine tour this day but when we made it to town it was already booked up!! soooo dissapointing seeing how this was one thing i was really looking forward too! but the lady said we could still go to the town and walk around and do wine tasting and see the wine caves and winerys.
sooo that was the only option...hana wasnt feeling up to it so i decided to go alone since i didnt want to miss out on the wine tour. it was a gorgeous little town and i just wondered up the little stone streets and saw rows and rows and rroowss of vines and huge castles. I found the wine caves and went into them...it was crazy!!! ive never seen so much wine in my life!!! bottles and bottles of it lined up everywhere and all full!!!! but i was down there seriously alll alone and i was so freaked out that i didnt stay to long lol after i did a bunch of wine tasting and watched a lil info video on making wine which was reallyy cool! then i just sat in a little park alone and drank some wine and hungout...really not the same drinking wine byurself but it was a really beautiful quiet little town and i really enjoyed myself!
the next day we were leaving for paris to get to munich...welll we didnt plan our time to well and for the first time in europe we missed our train!!! sooo lame luckily a train left in 2hrs so we got on that one and got to paris at 4ish welll we had 1hr at this time to catch another train to cologne where we were meeting ashley to go to munich the next day!! so we hauled ass only to find out it was full!!! thennn we hauled ass to a diff train station to try somewhere else and thatt was full! soo we had to go back to the OTHER train station and try something else!! realllyy very frusterating day! we finally got on a train that got us into cologne at 2am where we were suppose to meet ashleyy butt we couldnt find her sooooooooooo we slept at the train station at mcds!! AHHHH it was so awful...well i didnt sleep hana did just a tiny bit..luckily tho our train leftfor munich at 7am and we found ashley at 655 haha but it all worked out on we were on our way to munich!
MUNICH
got to munich around 12 and had a repeat of bordeaux, got stupid lost trying to find our hotel!! ah but finally we made it and our taxi driver offer to drive us to town for free!! so we had 5mins to drop offour bags check in and change lol 3 girls..noteasyyy plus had to sneak hana in as it was only for 2 ppl! lol but we made it! and we got to town and set off looking for oktoberfest! along the way we looked for dindels!! we decided if we were going to oktoberfest we might as well go all out!!! so we bought dindels!!!!!! and were so excited to wear them!! that day tho we justwent to oktoberfest and looked around...i had no idea it was a fair like the pne!! so may rides! the tents though were INSANE! there was thousandssssss of people inside sitting at tables standing everywhere drinking HUGE beers!! we checked out a few and then i had a beer n a pretzel:)...then left to get a good nights sleep for the next day!!...got lost again going back to the hotel..dont ask ugh.
OKTOBERFEST
this gets its own post...it was crazyy!! we woke up at 445!!!!!!!!! ran aroundgettin our dindels on hehe and then were out the door at 515am ! RAN to the train station to get our train to town which didnt end up coming until 6am it took about 50mins to get to town and then we RAN through the train station and the streets of munich..in our dindels to get to oktoberfest!! then weRAN thro oktoberfest trying to find the tent that ashleys german friends were at and the best one...we needed to be thereby 7!! we got there at 710 and the lineup wasnt tooo bad!! 5minslater...doubled in size!! i cant believe how many people get up that early on a sat to drink beer!!!! the lineup was 8times as big by the time we got to move a bit at 8 and then we were fairly close to inside...i should mention they DO NOT line up the way we do at home...there is nosuch thing as single file..or standing to close to someone..or no smoking...or any order really...just push!!! haha o god...so finally at 845 we got to PUSH into oktoberfest! worth it though since we got an awesome table and within 15mins had our first beer!!! a HUGE beer!! and we had a dougnut!! mhh then it was just drinking and everyone would cheers all at the same time...thousands of people in the tent! then at 1030 am the band started!! EVERYONE stood up on there benches and sang and drank!! we did this for hourrss! had about 4 beers...they are massive...sang a bunch of german songs and pretty much had the best day!! (the lineup to pee tho) OMG abouttt100 girls NO STRAIGHT LINES just shove and try and get in..took about 40mins! INSANE...but it was sooo worth it...some point in the day we also had chicken which was delicous! and then drankmore beer!! haha it is to hard to explain how cool it was but we havetoonss of pics and videos to show u guys!! we left around 530 to go get our bags from our hotel and bring them to ashleys friends placein muncih...took for everrr but we had some wine and some dinner and danced in the train lol we got to there place and decided to go to a club!!hana stayed in so me n ash n her 2 german friends went out! itwas a really cool club and we stayed out dancing until about 3am!! such a fun day!! such a longggggggday ahahha but oktoberfest was deffinetly a highlight for us!!
SWITZERLAND
the next day we slept in ahah and then left for switzerland...we met up with ashleys friend there and went to our hostel..bed early after the night before!!
the next day we did atour of switzerland..basically a 3hr boat ride on lake lucern and then 6hrs on trains...it wasbeautiful but we are sooo sick of trains that by the time it was over we were over mnts and lakes lol it was another early night
the next day we split up and hana and i decided to go up mnt rigi. we took a boat there and then we took a cog train ..the first ever mnt railway in europe! going up the views were sooo beautiful and the top was breathtaking...about 30mins up to panoramic views of the alps,13 lakes, and central switzerland..sooo beautiful! we walked from the top for about 45mins down to anther point where u can get on the cog train it was a really nice walk and we had time to sit and take it all in...veryy beautiful! boat back to the train station and then on a train to austria!! we wanted out of switzerland asap...as pretty as it is it is sooooooooo fucking expensive!!! like 13dollarsfor burgerkingand 12dollars for my pasta...STUPIDDDD haha anyways of coursewe-re dumb and had the wrong train station so we didnt get into austria until late last ngiht!
AUSTRIA
idont know we just got here its prettty but im sooooooo done writing this now!! ahha hana will update next...and ihope sooneer for her sake and urs!! haha
love u all xoxoxooxox
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