AH...one of my many homelands! Mother to polski ogorkis, perogies, and many people who have `ski`in their last names. Hoorah! So we arrived here this morning after a less-than-pleasant-but-more-pleasant-than-the-last night train. Here were our predictions: - It was at one point behind the iron curtain, so we were expecting grey, drab buildings with graffiti. - Good food - Well, we actually came here not knowing what the city was like at all, and boy were we ...

Hello from Austria! It has been a few days since we last posted a message, and so we figured we would let you know where we have been. We were staying in Menaggio, a small town on the shore of lake como. Karen and Derek, we will let you know absolutely everthing there is to know about that area, and you are so lucky to be going there as it is has been the prettiest place so far. We went for a hike up Mount Refuggio, and had a view of the enourmous lake and its ti...

Hello from Rome! Again, I must be brief s here I go! Please bear with mispelled words as Italian keyboards are quite amusing... We are now in another campsite outside of rome in a small bungalow. After a sleepless night beside yet another night club with tribal drumming that is cool when you're having dinner, but not so when your head hits the pillow. So we were up at the crack of dawn and off to the colloseum, the forums, sites around the capitol and the disap...

Hey all, weve reached Venice! Just a quick disclaimer, I dont know how to type apostrophes on Italian keyboards, and subsequently will not be entirely grammatically sound throughout this web log entry. Anyways... Weve been travelling hard for days now. We left Egypt at 9:30 AM on Monday the 16th and arrived in Venice around 11:30 AM on Wednesday the 18th. The worst part of that trek was easily the 31 hour ferry ride. But we are here, and it is very cool. We...

oops, I think we accidentaly tripped off Santorini and landed on Africa... in Egypt? Can't deny an all-inclusive hotel, round trip airfare, and private two day tours with meals at the top restaurants in Giza...all for about 900 CAD (mostly covered by cancelling some other...shiver...dorm style hostels) Internet is NOT CHEAP here so we thought we'd tell you we're at the Zoser Hotel until Monday and Egypt is BY FAR the coolest place we've been too so far. Can't WAI...