we're in belgium!
it's just like home..... 10 degrees and raining!
we went to a chocolate museum today as well as walked around the city in the pouring rain... man we're troopers! ;)
tomorrow we are off to rotterdam where i will inform you of our adventures there.
we've basically just had a lazy afternoon here b.c of the rain.
i'll post again soon! :D
love dani and kirk
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Luxembourg
Hey there.
well euro disney was a blast! A full day of excitement! We managed to get around the whole park... the only thing we did not see which kirk was kinda disapointed about was a princess! We did manage to get our pics with most of the other characters though ;)
We arrived in Luxembourg on Monday. We have both decided that it is the most beautiful city weve ever seen! Its small, yes, hehe. But it is georgous! It has a huge valley that our hostel is actually located in. The river flows throughout the whole town, and it only takes about 20 minutes tops to walk accross the whole city. Weve been to acouple museums and castles. The hostel is amazing. It is very clean and nice....we dont want to leave it. The food here is super cheap and they have a salad bar that is onlz 4 Euros , so weve been stalking up on our veggies.
We are leaving today for Bruge... this was originally not part of the plan. but we have changed some of the schedule becuase we have decided that a week in some places is going to be too long. unless we know people who tell us where to go and what to see.... we get everything we want to accomplish in a couple days, so we have cut some of our longer places in half and added a few cities.
For those of you who do not know... Bruge is a city just north of Brussels. I guess I will be able to tell you more about it afterwards.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Well report again in acouple days.
Love Dani & Kirk
ps: kirks mom has informed me that i have many spelling mistakes in the blog enteries.... just so you all dont think im stupid, there are mistakes becuase i am typing as fast as i can with out proof reading it b.c were paying for the internet access! Thanks for understanding ;)
well euro disney was a blast! A full day of excitement! We managed to get around the whole park... the only thing we did not see which kirk was kinda disapointed about was a princess! We did manage to get our pics with most of the other characters though ;)
We arrived in Luxembourg on Monday. We have both decided that it is the most beautiful city weve ever seen! Its small, yes, hehe. But it is georgous! It has a huge valley that our hostel is actually located in. The river flows throughout the whole town, and it only takes about 20 minutes tops to walk accross the whole city. Weve been to acouple museums and castles. The hostel is amazing. It is very clean and nice....we dont want to leave it. The food here is super cheap and they have a salad bar that is onlz 4 Euros , so weve been stalking up on our veggies.
We are leaving today for Bruge... this was originally not part of the plan. but we have changed some of the schedule becuase we have decided that a week in some places is going to be too long. unless we know people who tell us where to go and what to see.... we get everything we want to accomplish in a couple days, so we have cut some of our longer places in half and added a few cities.
For those of you who do not know... Bruge is a city just north of Brussels. I guess I will be able to tell you more about it afterwards.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Well report again in acouple days.
Love Dani & Kirk
ps: kirks mom has informed me that i have many spelling mistakes in the blog enteries.... just so you all dont think im stupid, there are mistakes becuase i am typing as fast as i can with out proof reading it b.c were paying for the internet access! Thanks for understanding ;)
Friday, June 22, 2007
Well we've had 2 full days of paris sight seeing! We hiked up the eiffel tower, went into the louve and saw the mona lisa, went to notre dame, saw the champs elysees, saw the musee d'orsay, and the hotel do ville. Instead of taking a tour bus around, there was a tour boat that we got on and took us to all of these stops. We were allowed to get on and off whenever we wanted throughout the day!
Kirk has finally agreed to go to Euro Disney :D :D :D :D We are going to go on Sunday, because that is when his family friends leave to go up to their cabin!
Today we're probably going to go into town and check out some other sites, as well as hang around here for a bit and visit. We check into a cheap hotel tonight that is close becuase there is not enough room for everyone unfortunatly.
Yesterday there was a music festival on all throughout paris. Everywhere there was little bands playing, it was neat to walk by and listen to them... especially when they were singing the english songs hehe!
Anyways, that's what we've been up to for the past 2 days.
the pictures will not upload onto this computer becuase it is too full. Hopefully in luxemburg we will be able to find one that will work!
Kirk has finally agreed to go to Euro Disney :D :D :D :D We are going to go on Sunday, because that is when his family friends leave to go up to their cabin!
Today we're probably going to go into town and check out some other sites, as well as hang around here for a bit and visit. We check into a cheap hotel tonight that is close becuase there is not enough room for everyone unfortunatly.
Yesterday there was a music festival on all throughout paris. Everywhere there was little bands playing, it was neat to walk by and listen to them... especially when they were singing the english songs hehe!
Anyways, that's what we've been up to for the past 2 days.
the pictures will not upload onto this computer becuase it is too full. Hopefully in luxemburg we will be able to find one that will work!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Trip from Barcelona to Paris
Hello Everyone.
Our trip from Barcelona to Spain was quite adventerous. We did not book our train ride until the day before.... note to self, never do that again! All of the sitting room was already reserved, so if we wanted a direct train ride from Barcelona to Paris it was going to cost us an extra 70euro's each on top of our already paid train passes! Luckily the man behind the counter spoke a little bit of english because kirks spanish skills didn't really include stuff about train rides. He was able to tell us that if we wanted to catch a different train out of barcelona to another city then we could catch a train from there to paris that would only cost us an extra 17euro's each, becuase all the sitting room was reserved so we'd have to get beds. We obviously decided to do that instead of paying the 70euros.
The train ride out of barcelona to this weird city was quite interesting. A train arrived at the time ours was suppose to leave at the right platform. Unfortunatly this train station did not have any posted signs as to where the next train was heading etc. sooooo about 200 ppl hoped onto this train thinking is was the right one. Most of these people were american students, and therefore pretty much Everyone crammed onto this train was confuesed as to if we got on the right one. Luckily Kirk heard some spanish lady that said it was the wrong one getting off at the next stop up, so we decided to fallow her! Turns out she was correct! Fuef!!!
About 4 stops down the way on the "right" train now, all the american students caught up with us again! This was rediclious.... we were all crammed onto the train like sardines. Honestly we could not move and were standing for the whole 2.5 hour train ride. It was 30 degrees outside aswell, so as you can imagine we were all sweating buckets and eventually even the windows of the train started to sweat and steam up. It was not fun.
Finally when we arrived in this town, both kirk and i had to pee. we found the washrooms but were so discusted by them we both decided we could hold it! haha. lets just say we didn't need to pee That bad!
The train to paris was very nice. I think the beds were 17 euro's well spent seen as the train left at 9:30pm and arrived in paris at 7:30am. We watched a movie on my i-pod and slept the rest of the night!
We are staying with some family friends of Kirk's in paris here for 3 nights. Then we are moving to a hostel becuase they have relatives comming to stay with them from Toronto acutally. This morning we walked to a local market and have bought some lunch which kirk is cooking up now. This afernoon we're planning on going to see the efel tower! Woot. We are here until Monday, so i'll report later on paris.
We havn't figured out how to upload picutres yet on this computer, it's not letting us. but as soon as we do i'll post them.
hope everyone is doing well.
xoxo
Our trip from Barcelona to Spain was quite adventerous. We did not book our train ride until the day before.... note to self, never do that again! All of the sitting room was already reserved, so if we wanted a direct train ride from Barcelona to Paris it was going to cost us an extra 70euro's each on top of our already paid train passes! Luckily the man behind the counter spoke a little bit of english because kirks spanish skills didn't really include stuff about train rides. He was able to tell us that if we wanted to catch a different train out of barcelona to another city then we could catch a train from there to paris that would only cost us an extra 17euro's each, becuase all the sitting room was reserved so we'd have to get beds. We obviously decided to do that instead of paying the 70euros.
The train ride out of barcelona to this weird city was quite interesting. A train arrived at the time ours was suppose to leave at the right platform. Unfortunatly this train station did not have any posted signs as to where the next train was heading etc. sooooo about 200 ppl hoped onto this train thinking is was the right one. Most of these people were american students, and therefore pretty much Everyone crammed onto this train was confuesed as to if we got on the right one. Luckily Kirk heard some spanish lady that said it was the wrong one getting off at the next stop up, so we decided to fallow her! Turns out she was correct! Fuef!!!
About 4 stops down the way on the "right" train now, all the american students caught up with us again! This was rediclious.... we were all crammed onto the train like sardines. Honestly we could not move and were standing for the whole 2.5 hour train ride. It was 30 degrees outside aswell, so as you can imagine we were all sweating buckets and eventually even the windows of the train started to sweat and steam up. It was not fun.
Finally when we arrived in this town, both kirk and i had to pee. we found the washrooms but were so discusted by them we both decided we could hold it! haha. lets just say we didn't need to pee That bad!
The train to paris was very nice. I think the beds were 17 euro's well spent seen as the train left at 9:30pm and arrived in paris at 7:30am. We watched a movie on my i-pod and slept the rest of the night!
We are staying with some family friends of Kirk's in paris here for 3 nights. Then we are moving to a hostel becuase they have relatives comming to stay with them from Toronto acutally. This morning we walked to a local market and have bought some lunch which kirk is cooking up now. This afernoon we're planning on going to see the efel tower! Woot. We are here until Monday, so i'll report later on paris.
We havn't figured out how to upload picutres yet on this computer, it's not letting us. but as soon as we do i'll post them.
hope everyone is doing well.
xoxo
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Barcelona-Spain
Hey Everyone.
So we arrived in Barcelona on a smooth flight that only cost us $29pounds ($60 dollers) each!
We arrived here on Tuesday at about 9pm, and had trouble finding out way into the city where we were staying b.c we got on the wrong bus from the airport. lucky we started talking to an english bloke (hehe) who was about our age who did the same thing. He had been here before though, so luckily we stuck with him and he found our way hehe!
We´ve almost been here a week now and it´s been awesome. We did a very tousity bus tour of the city, as well as rented bicycles and rode around the city, down the boardwalk ect. Yesterday we spend the day on the beautiful beach here, and tomorrow we are planning on taking a day trip to Blanes, where there is supposidly Super nice beaches! The water here is amazingly beautiful, like cuba but Cold! Which is nice though because the weather has been soooo hot! It´s been about 30 degrees everyday except today which was a bit cooler with clouds. Plus there is a lot of humidity here, i´ve been sweating like crazy haha. Kirk is super tanned already, and i´m getting there!!! hehe
We´ve tried to be thrifty here with food. there is a local market just down the street where we have bought a lot of meats and bagettes.. but a few times we have gone out for dinner. the restaurants here are mostly tapas... which is fun.
Anyways, we´re off to Paris on Monday. I´ll try to upload some pictures then because we´re staying with Kirks relatives and these computers don´t have a monitor i can plug my camra into.
Hope everyone is doing well,
love dani & kirk
So we arrived in Barcelona on a smooth flight that only cost us $29pounds ($60 dollers) each!
We arrived here on Tuesday at about 9pm, and had trouble finding out way into the city where we were staying b.c we got on the wrong bus from the airport. lucky we started talking to an english bloke (hehe) who was about our age who did the same thing. He had been here before though, so luckily we stuck with him and he found our way hehe!
We´ve almost been here a week now and it´s been awesome. We did a very tousity bus tour of the city, as well as rented bicycles and rode around the city, down the boardwalk ect. Yesterday we spend the day on the beautiful beach here, and tomorrow we are planning on taking a day trip to Blanes, where there is supposidly Super nice beaches! The water here is amazingly beautiful, like cuba but Cold! Which is nice though because the weather has been soooo hot! It´s been about 30 degrees everyday except today which was a bit cooler with clouds. Plus there is a lot of humidity here, i´ve been sweating like crazy haha. Kirk is super tanned already, and i´m getting there!!! hehe
We´ve tried to be thrifty here with food. there is a local market just down the street where we have bought a lot of meats and bagettes.. but a few times we have gone out for dinner. the restaurants here are mostly tapas... which is fun.
Anyways, we´re off to Paris on Monday. I´ll try to upload some pictures then because we´re staying with Kirks relatives and these computers don´t have a monitor i can plug my camra into.
Hope everyone is doing well,
love dani & kirk
Monday, June 11, 2007
Well
Just for all of you who are wondering.... the lump has gone down! i'm not dieing anymore! :DThanks again pat & Ginette for letting us stay at your wonderful cottage as well as Sandy for letting us stay at your house on our last night. You too Reed!
We went to Bath today to see kates university and the town. it was a very cool little town, pretty much in a bowl! I will post pics of it and stonehenge tomorrow hopefully!
Tomorrow we catch a plane from here to barcelona! we got a great deal... 29pounds each for a 3 hr flight! not bad i think!
Friday, June 8, 2007
London Adventures
Hey Everyone,
So we finally arrived in Europe!
We flew into London, where we met my friend Kate who showed us around the town. We pretty much walked and took the tube around all of downtown London that day! Weirdest thing to see them driving on the other side of the road and cars though!
On the 2nd evening we went for curry with kate, steve and an english/sweedish boy we met at the hostel, which was fun, and then went to a student's pub.
We are now in Salisbury, the countryside, at Kates farm. It was gorgeous here! It is a huge property with tones of horses on it as well as crops! We just got in this afternoon, so she's going to take us into town tomorrow and show us around. It's beautiful here though, which should be nice and relaxing before our real adventures begin trying to work our way around europe with out knowing people!
Anyways, i'll post again soon!
Monday, June 4, 2007
French River
So we're back from Pat and Ginette's Cabin which was located right on the french river. It was beautiful. We spent 2 full days there. There is two cabins, one in which all of us "kids" slept with 3 rooms, and then one in with the "adults" slept. The "kids" (us) took out the canoe and kayaks for three hours yesterday and went up to the rapids where Kirk and Sara went over the rapid in the canoe... and Kirk and Reed also went body surfing down it! It was quite the afternoon... although i got burnt :S i know not good dani, but i did put sunscreen on three times, so it's not my fault. Also I got 100000000 bug bights! i guess bugs arn't very common in BC because i'm definatly not use to it. i also have this one lump on the side of my neck that everyone is saying is another bug bight, but i am skeptical... I know i know i'm a hypocondriac, but still!
Anyways. we're back from the cabin now which was a wonderful trip. Tomorrow we head back into toronto for the day then at 10:50pm we get on our flight to England :D Woowoo!
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Trip to Toronto
Hey Everyone...
So we're off. The start of our trip was not as good as expected unfortunatly. We had to leave our house by 4am to catch our 6am flight. As the plane was about to take off, Kirk started feeling sick. About half an hour into the flight Kirk once again felt very sick and decided to puke all over! This didn't help me as I am a horrible flyer anyways. Once I cleaned up his puke, as he was in the washroom, the flight attendent brought him some gingerale to hopefully calm his stomach... Unfortunatly as he opened it, it fizzed all over him aswell. Definatly not Kirk's day. Once we arrived in Toronto we had a 2 hr wait for our next flight to Sudbury (where we are now) to see Reed's (Kirk's brother) graduation. This plane was TINY! It only had 12 rows and we had to walk out onto the tarmat to get into it! We got delayed because of the lightening showers in Toronto.
Since we've arrived things have been good though! It is just Way too humid here for my liking!
The graduation went well and Kirk and Daveen's speaches were excellent!
We're off to One of Reed's professors cabin for the next two days, and then on Tuesday we're heading back to Toronto then off to England :D
Missing everyone already,
Love Dani
So we're off. The start of our trip was not as good as expected unfortunatly. We had to leave our house by 4am to catch our 6am flight. As the plane was about to take off, Kirk started feeling sick. About half an hour into the flight Kirk once again felt very sick and decided to puke all over! This didn't help me as I am a horrible flyer anyways. Once I cleaned up his puke, as he was in the washroom, the flight attendent brought him some gingerale to hopefully calm his stomach... Unfortunatly as he opened it, it fizzed all over him aswell. Definatly not Kirk's day. Once we arrived in Toronto we had a 2 hr wait for our next flight to Sudbury (where we are now) to see Reed's (Kirk's brother) graduation. This plane was TINY! It only had 12 rows and we had to walk out onto the tarmat to get into it! We got delayed because of the lightening showers in Toronto.
Since we've arrived things have been good though! It is just Way too humid here for my liking!
The graduation went well and Kirk and Daveen's speaches were excellent!
We're off to One of Reed's professors cabin for the next two days, and then on Tuesday we're heading back to Toronto then off to England :D
Missing everyone already,
Love Dani
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