July 27, 2008 Santorini: Imagine your best, most serene, romantic, beautiful, magical dream, that is how I can best define Santorini. It is peaceful, kind,warm, relaxed, soothing and fun. We decided to stay only in Santorini (no other island) so we will be here a total of about six nights! And honestly it is a total vacation, we do no sightseeing, train catching, plane missing, luggage lugging. Our days consist of getting up, reading by the pool for an hour o...

July 22, 2008 It has been a long long time and many cities since we last spoke and here is a treat for you, and here he is (Nick the stage is yours)... -> Thank you, thank you! I will admit when Kelly handed my the journal I threw it on the floor but an hour of it looking at me and realizing I have 8 more hours on this train, here I am... REMINDER: I AM NOT A BERKELEY ENGLISH GRAD Since our last journal entry, we have visited Florence, Sienna, Rome and Na...

July 15, 2008 I think I am going to start claiming that I am Italian. Dont get me wrong I love being Irish (and Native American) but wow, being Italian almost takes the gelato. If I was Italian I would be about 20lb heavier and be absolutly comfrotable with it. The food here, I have decided, is worth putting on the pounds. Everything is so incredible you cant not finish your plate, you cant not help getting another bottle of wine, a double scope of gelato, ...

July 10, 2008 We have escaped Spain! I feel like the word choice of escaped is a bit harst, Nick and I had an extremly long, hot, unfun day of today of dealing with travel issues in Barcelona. Let me catch you up, so first off from Madrid we decided to get in some r and r in the lovely town of Malaga in Southern Spain. And so thatàs exactly what we did. We arrived around six checked out our hostel, walked to the beach enjoyed the pink sunset and lazy waves wh...

July 13, 2008 Top 5 Descriptions of What it Feels like to get stung by a jelly... Feels like... 1. getting attacked by an entire beehive and getting stung in one concentrated area, and instead of the bees dying after they sting, they sting again this time with electric currents 2. getting unschedueled electroshock treatment by Nurse Ratched without consent, underwater 3. the finding Nemo scene, where Dora keeps getting stung over and over, except this time ...