hmmm.....Nice, shall we continue from there then.
After soaking up a rather large number of sun rays we left the beautiful city of Nice and headed to San Sebastion at the very northern tip of Spain about a 30 min train ride from the border to be exact! We stayed at a cute little hostel called Olgas met quite a few Canadians, the Canadians are coming out in full force, Im guessing since schooling is now all finished up! We soaked up a few more rays, found a dock WITH A SLIDE! Ate some Tapas wandered the old part of town and ate DELICIOUS gelato!
From San Sebastion we headed to Madrid we had a solid 36hrs in the capitol city, we shopped till we dropped, went on a very informative walking tour :) and enjoyed some rather tasty Pailla and then on to LISBON PORTUGAL!
Lisbon = the city of many hills.... THEY WEREN'T KIDDING! Everywhere you want to go seems to be uphill! We climbed to our hostel, climbed to a Castle and climbed to the grocery store! We went to a modern art musuem in Belem (a district in Lisbon) and ate "The Pastry of Belem"!!!! And then headed to Sintra a fairy tale land of castles beautiful gardens and magnificent trees!
From Lisbon we headed down to southern Portugal to Lagos another beach town (we do enjoy a good bit of ocean!) We found random tunnels along the coast and went swimming in the shockingly COLD ocean! On our second day we decided to try our hand at surfing....we got all decked out in the suits (CLASSY!) grabbed our boards (with the foam edging, we don't joke around) and hit the waves.... hit being the best adjective to describe this adventure :) now all kidding aside we both did stand up WHICH WAS SWEET! and the next day COULDN'T stand up but all in all it was a stellar day!
From Lagos we booked it to the bus stop, 6:30am a bit on the early side, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELSEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) (what more could you ask for on your 19th really!) So.... 3 buses and 14hrs later we arrived at the southern tip of Spain in Tarifa 30 minutes from Morocco WOWZA!!!! Sadly due to timing and passports we couldn't actually get on African soil but we could see the coast when we climbed a hill.... and well thats pretty much being there! In Tarifa we headed to the beautiful beach! wandered through the old town ate quite a high volume of Magnum icecreams! SO TASTY! And wowed the crowds with our cooking skills.
36 hrs later...... and Chel and I were ON THE ROAD AGAIN! to.... GRANADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it is BEAUTIFUL! We visited the Alhambra which was GORGEOUS! baked in the hot hot sun, munched on SO many kebabs! Decided to show off our ridiculous India pants... people were jealous... and climbed a mountain to a man living in a cave selling delicious tea and watched the sunset!
Tonight we are heading to Barcelona OUR LAST CITY!, sadly they don't have internet so this will be the last post before we arrive on Canadian soil, ON CANADA DAY I might add :)
So much love from
Chelsea and Simone!
We are celebrating our 6 month annivsary on July 8th just so you're all in the know! It's going to be a joyous occasion :) (you may bring cake for the happy couple!)
THANKS XOXOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
20 days!!!!!!
My goodness, its pitiful how little we blog! Though please take note Chel: 1 blog post, Simone: the rest.... WHERE IS THE JUSTICE!
So when we left off last Chel and I were sailing across the ocean blue to get from the island of Corfu in Greece to Bari in Italy.....
We actually arrived in Brindisi after ferries being cancelled and late, and then slowly but surely made our way up to Rome. And 24hrs later we arrived in Rome and had quite the time making it to our hostel somehow it involved 4 buses, 2 metros, a smart car and a lot of backtracking but we arrived and found our tent (in Italy we stayed in campgrounds quite a bit theyre much cheaper though WAY out of town in most cases, it was a bit of give and take :)).
Our first day in Rome we headed to the Vatican city and over the course of two days we saw St Peters Basillica, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Sistene Chapel and to many Roman ruins to count! it was lovely warm BUSY!
From Rome we headed to Florence and stayed in another campground atop Michelangelo Piazza with beautiful views of the city. We met up with the Duncan Christian girls again which was great and did a bit of shopping.... :) We also had a fantastic true Italian meal with all the courses, it set us back a bit in our budget, but dont get me started on the lemon BUTTER sauce :D TASTY!
From Florence to Cinque Terre where we hiked the BEAUTIFUL trails along the coastline connecting the five little villages! it was beautiful! and luckily we did the hike backwards and got the incredable amount of stairs over and done with at the beginning! Rather clever :) After a few days enjoying Cinque Terre we headed to Venice it was brief, but the canals were lovely and rather confusing! and the heavens decided to bless us with a little rain! little more like A MAJOR DOWNPOUR!!!!
From Italy it was SWITZERLAND TIME!!! After too many trains to count we ended up in Grindewald Switzerland, a tiny little town with beautiful glaciers cows with bells and rolling hills and valleys of wild flowers! It was GORGEOUS! We climbed 890 log steps! jumped a railing climbed up another mountain and then in shorts and a t-shirt ate lunch with some ice and snow :).
From Switzerland we decided to go on a hunt for ASHLEY WILSON!!! 15 hrs later and 7 trains later..... for some reason Chel and I felt we were smarter than the train stations computers and created our own itinerary! NEVER AGAIN! we were 6 minutes ahead of schedule though! We then arrived in Dordrecht in the Netherlands and decided that Ambucht must be smaller than it really is we were in the MIDDLE of nowhere at midnight with no address, phone number or direction, just our TERRIBLE MEMORY of where exactly their home was situated so we ended up hopping on a bus, breaking up a midnight kiss and getting driven by the mother :) in actual fact it was a rather lengthy process involving deciding the best place to lay our heads for the night under a car or in a bush hmm.....
Once in Holland again we got some laundry done again! Enjoyed breakfast at home :) and were able to plan the rest of our trip out.... sort of :)
We found Ashley and Jaime in Amsterdam :) so exciting wandered around the canals, caught up and enjoyed Indian food for dinner :) ALOO GOBI!!!!! (and Biryioni!)
From Amsterdam we headed to Rouen in France and then Dieppe which were both beautiful and then headed across the English channel and stayed in Brighton which was so nice and SUNNY! we stayed with some friends we met in Greece which was GREAT then headed to London for a few days saw the sights and stayed in a gnarly hostel! Went back across pit stop in Dieppe one more time and off to Paris.
Paris well Im not really quite sure where we stayed it wasnt in Paris city thats for SURE! it was called Hotel Cheap Beds... and thats exactly what it was! We ran up Montmartre saw the hotel we stayed in with school and ate a crepe and then hopped on a train to Dijon.
Dijon we bought Dijon mustard, found a park, went to a lovely wine tasting in a large old cellars with quite a few barrels and stayed in a hostel on the side of a highway! France is not cheap for hostels, as you can probably tell, we tend to go for the outskirts!
From Dijon we headed to Nice which is where we are situated at the moment and have been enjoying the sun and the sea! BEAUTIFUL!!!
Well folks hopefully youll get one more before we return! Maybe not though.... :) perhaps youll just hear it from us!
20 days and the countries left are.....
A bit more of France
Spain
Portugal
and Morroco!
see you all soon
xoxox
Simone and Chelsea!
So when we left off last Chel and I were sailing across the ocean blue to get from the island of Corfu in Greece to Bari in Italy.....
We actually arrived in Brindisi after ferries being cancelled and late, and then slowly but surely made our way up to Rome. And 24hrs later we arrived in Rome and had quite the time making it to our hostel somehow it involved 4 buses, 2 metros, a smart car and a lot of backtracking but we arrived and found our tent (in Italy we stayed in campgrounds quite a bit theyre much cheaper though WAY out of town in most cases, it was a bit of give and take :)).
Our first day in Rome we headed to the Vatican city and over the course of two days we saw St Peters Basillica, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Sistene Chapel and to many Roman ruins to count! it was lovely warm BUSY!
From Rome we headed to Florence and stayed in another campground atop Michelangelo Piazza with beautiful views of the city. We met up with the Duncan Christian girls again which was great and did a bit of shopping.... :) We also had a fantastic true Italian meal with all the courses, it set us back a bit in our budget, but dont get me started on the lemon BUTTER sauce :D TASTY!
From Florence to Cinque Terre where we hiked the BEAUTIFUL trails along the coastline connecting the five little villages! it was beautiful! and luckily we did the hike backwards and got the incredable amount of stairs over and done with at the beginning! Rather clever :) After a few days enjoying Cinque Terre we headed to Venice it was brief, but the canals were lovely and rather confusing! and the heavens decided to bless us with a little rain! little more like A MAJOR DOWNPOUR!!!!
From Italy it was SWITZERLAND TIME!!! After too many trains to count we ended up in Grindewald Switzerland, a tiny little town with beautiful glaciers cows with bells and rolling hills and valleys of wild flowers! It was GORGEOUS! We climbed 890 log steps! jumped a railing climbed up another mountain and then in shorts and a t-shirt ate lunch with some ice and snow :).
From Switzerland we decided to go on a hunt for ASHLEY WILSON!!! 15 hrs later and 7 trains later..... for some reason Chel and I felt we were smarter than the train stations computers and created our own itinerary! NEVER AGAIN! we were 6 minutes ahead of schedule though! We then arrived in Dordrecht in the Netherlands and decided that Ambucht must be smaller than it really is we were in the MIDDLE of nowhere at midnight with no address, phone number or direction, just our TERRIBLE MEMORY of where exactly their home was situated so we ended up hopping on a bus, breaking up a midnight kiss and getting driven by the mother :) in actual fact it was a rather lengthy process involving deciding the best place to lay our heads for the night under a car or in a bush hmm.....
Once in Holland again we got some laundry done again! Enjoyed breakfast at home :) and were able to plan the rest of our trip out.... sort of :)
We found Ashley and Jaime in Amsterdam :) so exciting wandered around the canals, caught up and enjoyed Indian food for dinner :) ALOO GOBI!!!!! (and Biryioni!)
From Amsterdam we headed to Rouen in France and then Dieppe which were both beautiful and then headed across the English channel and stayed in Brighton which was so nice and SUNNY! we stayed with some friends we met in Greece which was GREAT then headed to London for a few days saw the sights and stayed in a gnarly hostel! Went back across pit stop in Dieppe one more time and off to Paris.
Paris well Im not really quite sure where we stayed it wasnt in Paris city thats for SURE! it was called Hotel Cheap Beds... and thats exactly what it was! We ran up Montmartre saw the hotel we stayed in with school and ate a crepe and then hopped on a train to Dijon.
Dijon we bought Dijon mustard, found a park, went to a lovely wine tasting in a large old cellars with quite a few barrels and stayed in a hostel on the side of a highway! France is not cheap for hostels, as you can probably tell, we tend to go for the outskirts!
From Dijon we headed to Nice which is where we are situated at the moment and have been enjoying the sun and the sea! BEAUTIFUL!!!
Well folks hopefully youll get one more before we return! Maybe not though.... :) perhaps youll just hear it from us!
20 days and the countries left are.....
A bit more of France
Spain
Portugal
and Morroco!
see you all soon
xoxox
Simone and Chelsea!
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