Finally made it

In Barcelona. WHOOO HOO.. After a six hour train ride we finally made it here. We stopped outside of Bacelona for an hour, couldn´t understand the conductor so I am not sure why something with construction or something. Tried to find one hostel and failed so now we are at another right next to Rambles which is apparantly ¨The In Street¨ It is beautiful here the sea is georgous and I really like it. Will write more after I had a few Barcelonian experiences.

Still in Madrid

Hello. Still in Madrid. Could not get a train to Barcelona today so we are leaving at 7 in the morning tommorow and will get there around lunch time. Danny and I spent the day doing laundry, drinking the coffee and taking in some more Madrid. I was thinking I would list my favorite things of the trip so far.
Amsterdam- Walking to the Indoneasian restraunt when the snow started to fall and we were in Dam Square. It was absolutley breath taking
Paris- sitting in the rain on the last night waiting for an hour for the eifle tower to light up. It was so pretty and just fun waiting while we were getting poured on.
Madrid- its a toss up between the bar crawl which was great and last night going out then coming home and it started to snow.
I know there mostly weather related but when your outside all the time its what strikes you.

Oh and today danny saw what snow looks like when it is really built up on the ground. He enjoyed stomping around and getting me covered in snow.
Thats it for now. Till next time.

Last few days in madrid

So we are leaving Madrid tommorow ¨( it´s been one of my favorite cites so far. We went to a modern art museum today, called renia sofia..it was wonderful, lots of cool paintings but there were alot of things i´m not sure are really art..tommorow we are leaving for barcelona and going to stay there for a few days before we go to Roma. Been going to carníval parades and parties here. This town is quite the party town. Thats about it for now..nothing that intresting to talk about right now..oh danny and i did our one meal a week thing..we were not real sure what we were ordering and it turns out i ate a peice of meat that took hours to chew and salad with somthing fishy smelling on it..danny got a bowl of rice with like baby clams and some other random sea organisms...we managed to get it down though we are pretty sure its not going to stay there.

Madrid Bar Crawl

So last night we went on a bar crawl and had quite the time. There was a irish man, some argentinaias, english girl, german guy, some candians, some americans and us. First stop a pirate bar. Started with a tequilla shot. Oh boy I hate tequilla, but I took it anyways. Then danny got a drink but she miss understood him so he actually got three drinks..Off to a great start. A bunch of us got on the dance floor and were booging away and even danny started dancing his european dance which is him just bobing around. After that bar we left and went on to an argentina party..oh boy. another tequilla shot. But this time I ordered the drinks nad got the proper amount. We start dancing and doing a salsa?? line. Then after that it was to another bar. This time the tequilla shot was very big, that I could not even finish it. It was starting to make me want to barf. We danced around and then went off to another club. Phew Not a Tequilla shot this time, it was something a wee bit sweeter, which was nice. At this point I am done drinking and Danny has only one more. I am not sure the effects tequilla will have on me so i limit my other drinks. Danny and i get on the dance floor once more and boogey for awhile. Then we went off to a salsa club. It was the same one we went to the night before but this time I really tried to salsa..and i suck..i´m such a white girl. Anyways. It was such a great night.
20 Euros..for the bar crawl
30 Euros for drinks and food afterwards
Last night with Danny dancing- Priceless
ha ha that was corney

This sucks

ONE DAY OFF WHAT THE HECK!!! I WOULD HAVE CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT THE WHOLE ANGALINA JOLIE THING! ONE DAY, ONE FREAKING DAY!!
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More news from Madrid

Today was an exciting day in the lovley town of Madrid..Danny woke me up rudley by turning on my bed side light. Boy oh Boy did he see the wrath of Morning Amy and its not pretty. Anyways after waking up going outside and stopping twice for coffee our day got started. We walked around for awhile and went to the Royal Palace of Madrid. It was emense with 2900 rooms. As Danny and I were walking around we were deciding what we would make each room if it were our palace. We decided we would put dirt in the plaza in the middle of the palace and then burry all the junk...i mean artifacts in the dirt. Then we would let blue go and dig them up. When he found one we would then give it to charity so we wouldn´t piss the spanish public off to much. After that we went to plaza Mayor which has really old Spanish arcituture and it was relally nice. Its cold here only 6 degrees outside. Thats celcius of course. Danny and I are losing weight because food is expensive so if you want to send money thats cool. We´ll eat a meal on ya. Thats about it for now. Tonight Danny and I are doing a bar crawl with a bunch of other people. Were going to like four bars and a club or two. Last night Danny and I went out and tried to salsa dance..it was amusing. I´m going to take a salsa lesson tommorow night and try to learn some what. Thats about it..Oh and one more funny thing..everytime someone speaks to danny in spanish, he gets nervous and can´t think of what to say so in a real thick southeren drawl he goes..Uh English..its funny cause everyone just looks at him funny. I´ve told him 100 times its no habla espanol but he just freezes and goes uh english..its funny and puts me in stitches everytime. Adios

Madrid

Got to Madrid after a day of train riding..It took 14 hours by train to get here. The train in Paris was nice and fast though a little uncomfortable. But then we had to stop on the border of Spain at Irun then get a diffrent train to finish our trip..OH MY GOD. It seriously went like 10 miles an hour the whole entire trip. Then getting to Madrid the Metro at the train station we were at was broken so we had to walk thirty minutes away to get to another metro station. But we found a hostel called Los Amigos..you can look at the web site at losamigos.com..its a nice place to stay and its the got the best showers i´ve had on this enitre trip..
Amsterdam shower, Could change the temp. but the shower head was clogged so had to use a facuet..not fun..especially when i went to take the first shower and tried to change the water to go to the shower head..it started coming out of the pipes scalding hot..i almost ran out to the common room naked because it was burning me so bad.
Paris Shower, outside in the patio..water was luke warm but you had to push a button every thirty seconds to get more water
Madrid Shower, normal shower no problems. It was wonderful..when you lose some luxuries to life you really do appreciate the small ones you get like a great shower..
Anyways havn´t watched T.V. since I´ve been here and i don´t miss it..though i do miss watching movies..today danny and i are taking it easy cause we are so tired..tommorow were going to see the sites
thats it for now..

Goodbye Paris

Paris has been a town of walking, museums, and outdoor monuments. We saw the Louve and asked why are you smiling Mona Lisa? We've walked down Champ de Ellsyes, been to Versillle. Its been fun Paris, but today we are leaving for Madrid. Today we plan on going to Piscasso or just sitting in a park and people watching. We have roamed your streets for six days now and its time for us to go.

shoe fettish

Kinda had a relaxed lame day today...Spent £15 doing laundry.....yikes that was only on one load of clothes.Then we went and got our rail tickets to Madrid, leaving Sunday. They wanted £120 for a sleeping car..on top of thet fact that we have a rail pass..so instead we got a seat to the border then another to Madrid...its' going to take close to ten hours to get there..oh well..We went and saw the royal palace which wasn't that impressive...then Danny did the meanst thing in the world to me..he took me to a French Mall where they had a floor dedicated to designer shoes..ohhhh..how i wanted and wished for some..they were beautiful...oh it was torture..thats about it. today we are going to the louve finally..and the arc de triumph..thats it for now..

another day another 100 miles

Enjoying my time in Paris. Today's goal was to see the Louve, but like the rest of our trip it didn't go as planned. Last night Danny went to bed early and I stayed downstairs in the hostel bar and got a little tipsy on wine. Needless to say I moved slow this morning. Made a new french friend though named Pierre. So today wee went oveerr to the louve only to find out that fridays after six it is free. As we backed off the line to talk about it we were offered two free tickets inside. After I got the tickets danny decided it was entrapment and we were going to go to French prision over £8.50 tickets. So we didn't use them. Instead we went to Notre Dame, the bastille, Pantheon, Latin Quaters, and other misc. walking. I am thinking about cutting my legs off so Danny won't make me walk over gods green earth anymore. We walk close to six hours or more a day right now. NOT AN EXAGERATION! thats in for now..

greetings from paris

in paris..danny and i are staying at the three ducks hostel. our roomates are from argentina which is cool. today we saw napoleans tomb and the eiffle tower. the tomb was emense. I also managed to put my credit card in the machine to try and get metro tickets, apparently it is only for french cards though. so i told the attendent who proceeded to yell at me in french for like 30 minutes. He made me run around the station with him, why, i'm not sure. Meanwhile Danny stood there with my stuck card getting yelled at cause no one could use the machine. Anyways thats about it for now so bon voyage from paris.

day five

Leaving for Paris today , can't wait...Yesterday danny and I did a museum then ate indoneasian food..it was yummy..i had beef in cocnut milk and a traditional indoniasian cake for dessert. It snowed here for hours yesterday so we frooze our butts off. It was really pretty though..none of it stuck to the ground though..thats it for now..gotta shower and pack..tots zien

day 4 part 2

Day Four..night time edition..
Went to the Red Light District..can't decide whether its the men that are nasty or the women for letting them..it was amusing no the less..like a car crash you can't help but stare..got offered cocaine ten times there, i started counting cause it was funny they ask you in like ten diffrent lanuages till you notice them then they are like you want some..they say its just dish washing soap though...its safe though there is 24 hour survalience there with cameras..any ways went a beer bar and had some local stuff then went to a club called teasers and got extremley overpriced drinks..thats it for now..

DAY FOUR

day four..got like the most consecutive sleep in a night since i've been here. Woke up at ten and went to the lobby..got free breakfast..two boiled eggs and two peices of bread (one white one wheat. kinda weird) then we FINALLY went to the Van Gogh muesuem..wasn't all its cracked up to be..when i look at art I like to sit back and enjoy it, but since it was saturday it was pretty crowded so we had to move in an assembly line down the way to look at the paintings..there were some really good peices there though..after that danny and i walked and found a restraunt with some of the best split pea soup i've ever had (apparently its really big here.) Danny commented on how he'd never heard of some of the food here and i had..then he figured it out since i'm from pa dutch area its very similar here..new guy moved into the room today..he's from japan, he seems pretty cool..better then my sorority sisters anyways. Were going out tonight and danny wants to try abstenith..i'm not sure i want him too but hes been begging since we got here so maybe i'll let him have a little..no way am i trying that stuff..gross..by the way there is internet at my hostel..just couldn't get onto the blogspot site last night to write..oh well thats it for now..ready for paris..tired of amsterdam..tots zien.

Day three

Day 3
Found a hostel..its intresting..its called bob's youth hostel. We are on the fourth floor and considering the lobby is in the basement, thats alot of stairs. Narrow, sprial stairs..its fun, i'm a huffing and a puffing by the end of the time i get up there..ten beds in the room and 7 of them are sorority/greek people..ya that sucks..went to ann frank house, it was diffrent from how i always pictured it in my head..the rest of the day we walked around and drank cappicinos..danny and i are in the habbit right now of walking in circles.. we walk for awhile then turn then turn agian.. we must of crossed the same bridge 3-4 times. That night we went to a vodka bar. Then back to the hostel..thats it for day three. still no where to post pics.

Day 2

Today Danny and I were planning on seeing a muesuem..didn't happen..we walked for awhile till we found somewhere to eat breakfast this morning..i had a good english breakfast..danny had a burger on his quest to eat a hamburger in every country...then we walked to the central train station to get tram passes and a eurorail ticket..on that trip we found the red light district..intresting..anywho..continued to the train station and got our stuff then decided to walk around agian..we walked for another few hours..this town is really pretty and intresting so its alot of fun to just walk and look and stop get a cappicino and walk some more..when we left it was 5pm and we stopped got some break and cheese and came home..as rode the tram home i discovered how far we walked today..gees it was alot..that's about it..tommorow were out of the hotel and into the hostel so danny and i are having a low key night just hanging out..our time is still messed up so we are just trying to adjust...that's about it for day two....lno where to post pictures yet so when i find a place to do that i will..

day 1 in amsterdam

Okay we found the hotel...phew that only took like 5 hours....anywho..we wandered enough around this city today that we have our bearings..five hours with a 25 lb pack on equals not much fun.. but it was an adventure...went to sleep at like 2 there time and woke up at midnight now its close to three in the morning and were wide awake tooling around on the internet...i'll post pics tommorow if i can..feel free to e-mail me at cycletiger@aol.com , also still taking donations if you want to help the amy in europe fund that would rock..i'll write more later..
tots zien. (that's dutch for good bye i think)

Lost in Amsterdam

In Amsterdam...it's 1:12 here and danny and i can not find the hotel..so now were at a cafe chilling..i'll write later if i can find the hotel

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN!!!! WE ARE LEAVING FOR EUROPE TOMMOROW!!! WOO HOOOO!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen..danny and i have made it to PA this morning..and we are two days away from being in Europe for seven weeks..I'll try to post as regularly as possible while i'm there..ohh i'm so excited..in other news blue is going to be staying with the parents. I don't quite think he knows whats about to hit him. Later