My Trip in Review European Observations: Ireland •mayo and lots of it on everything •brown sauce hah •cheers! •"way out" instead of exit UK •vinegar for your fries •"Mind the Gap" •HP sauce (?) Amsterdam •millions of bikes everywhere •excellent waffles •nearly impossible to find garbage cans Paris •French music videos are very different (Simple Plan is #2 on their top hits...) •the police walk around with semiautomatic wea...

Today we made it back to Dublin and it was so good to be back :) We only had a couple hours to get some things done. We checked into our hostel and headed to Farringtons for brie and a Smithwicks. The bartenders told us it was U2 night and that there was no other place we should be haha so we went. It was pretty funny. Irish people sure love their U2. Anyways, our last night was a good time but we just can't believe were leaving tomorrow :( it's bittersweet. Fir...

Yesterday we made it to Rome. It is sweltering here. We are staying in a "camping village" but our place is air conditioned which is quite nice. To get here we had to take the metro and the worst, most packed bus ever. We about died when we finally arrived at our bungalow (their word not mine hah) Once we got situated we threw on our suits and headed straight to the pool. It was such a relief to jump in and be able to lay out by the pool. After about 2 hours we h...

Well, tonight was our last night in Florence. Nothing really exciting happened here except for the mass amounts of leather goods I bought. Yay! The markets here are hard to pull yourself away from. Last night, we went to a couple of bars and got to see the Duomo at night which was pretty cool. For lunch today, we ate some really good pizza. We got a pineapple gorgonzola pizza and it was fabulous. Our hostel here has an indoor pool and steam room which we took a...

Yesterday was our last day in Venice unfortunately. We started the day out by heading to the beach to get some sun. Once again another beautiful day. We have been so lucky with the weather this trip. We were at the beach for a little under 2 hours before we left to get some lunch. We went to this little restaurant where they had these swinging benches for seats. It was pretty cute and the food was of course delicious. We hopped on the water bus again and headed ...