tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295635162011-04-21T14:11:33.703-07:00I am travelling to Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Sweden. I will be with a bunch of friends from college as well as my dad for a bit and look forward to hearing your comments and advice for places to go.Gary Foxnoreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29563516.post-1160445201300010892006-10-09T18:52:00.001-07:002006-10-09T18:53:21.320-07:00

TURKEY- the land of opportunity. Or the land of Kebaps. Probably Kebaps. Everything was new and exciting about turkey, and new and exciting in a way that I had never seen the likes of in my life. Even more so than being stuck in the dark in the middle of the night on a train and then in a parking lot in the middle of Bavaria with no cell phone and no contacts or map just hoping- hoping

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Basically, ROME is one of the few cities which I fully intend on returning to, simply because there was so much else there to do which I had not yet seen, or would like to see again for sure. I made some definitive observations here: -First, Italy is Hot, or at least it was while I was there. On lo quality trains, walking around, in hostels, in everything it is really freakin hot. I

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Continuning: -We did not see Michelangelo’s moses, or the other famous art gallery, but we did hit -Several designer shops. Thought it was out of my system from Milan, I guess not -La Fontana di trevi. Big, huge fountain that people throw money into, and lots of it. Huge fine if you come and try and collect it. Awesome -“St Teresa in Excascy” Located in a small church that is

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Of course, this doesn't even begin to cover it all: Rome: the eternal city First, the semantics. You see, when traveling from place to place, it becomes necessary to find accommodations, and that can be a tricky process. There are HI affiliated hostels, which are more expensive and require a membership, there is hoselworld.com which provides bookings for a fee that [may or may not have

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The Vatican. The freaking Vatican. Oh wow the Vatican. I could not believe it, it’s the most incredible thing I have ever seen. As you will discover later I will claim that Turkey is the best overall but this hands down beats everything else I will discuss. Rome is great, it has roman stuff duh, the Vatican, bernini, shops, more heat, hostels, great sculptures everywhere and is more

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FlorenceFlorence is a city unlike any others which I have visited. Instead of being outwardly beautiful like so many others in Italy and other places in Europe, I felt that it had an almost dirty feel to it, and its buildings obstructed views of just about everything unless you are right next to the structure. However, it is where the renaissance started which is my favorite architecture and

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I apologize for not updating, I have really been relaxing at the beach for over a week now. As it is said, I need a vacation from the vacation!That said, when I have a few extra hours in istanbul in a couple of days I will write up the beach [not much to say about this its just a few cultural notes] istanbul, my trip to turkey, rome, and florence. Its been a while I know, but I have really

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I am havıng a ahrd tıme updatıng but ı have a number for turkey90 5392314155 of course ıts free to receıve calls and call anytıme Id love to hear from you I wıll wrıte up florence and rome soon. Turkey ıs the best so far by a long shot ıf you take ın the whole deal!

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oh yeah, I can receive calls too. Right now I am in Rome and will be in Italy untill the 31st. I then head to Turkey. I expect to write up more tomorrow as I have unlimited internet for a short period of time. I guess it could be considered a plus to this extremely difficult to find and far away hostel. More on that later.country code 39 3486959486so dialing from us [using a calling card it

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Don't get me wrong, its great in Italy. Its just very, very, very warm. Although I am starting to get used to it.This section was dedicated to Milan and the cinqueterres. I came here because of some extended relatives of mine, NiNi and Shabia. They live in Italy, and I stayed with them for 5 days and 4 nights.Milan is not really nice as one would traditionally think. Its very hot and there

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Wow this place is amazing, and I really really mean it. I have been to yellowstone, banff, jasper, glacier, yosemite, zion, and the grand canyon but it was re-freaking-diculous. Lake geneva is gorgeous, the standard of living is high, the mountains are devloped yet remote and green, and the money is extremely colorful. Yes, it is the coolest looking money I have seen thus far, though this

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This post will cover the trip from madrid to switzerland, and hopefully some of the start of italy.First off, spanish are nicer than the french, and my skills were quite useful. Smoking was smoking as usual. I think the guy yes guy working the hostel desk was hitting on me because he was being a little overly helpful with my spanish learning and kept winking at me. Maybe he was just being nice

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This is a close up of the designs that permeated the entire Alahambra palace. Its really quite interesting.The ticketSagrada Familia, the unfinished yet incredible structure cathedral.A castle wall, I believe from Toledo. I love these things.And of course, the obligatory bored gargoyle from the top of one of many notre dames, but this is the famous one victor hugo wrote about in his book. Its

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This time I will just post Like five and then make comments. When I get to milan later today, I will try and tell the story of the journey here and also final comments and jokes about spain.First, its me and mauricio after a long night in Hannover. We were really tired and out late staying at a place an hour from where the game was played. You can see us in our scarves in that shot.Me and my

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This is not about swiss cheese, but it does cover my journey from barcelona to geneva switzerland, with stops in Granada and Madrid and Toledo in between.Barcelona:The highlight of this portion was visiting the unfinished, but still spectacular sagrada familia there. A combination of gothic and modern design, it has plans so vast that they intend to build a spire taller than any other complete

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This is going to be very long. I am at my friend John Linton's house, a get away cabin in the middle of the swiss alps, 10 minutes by foot to the nearest ski lift. This place is incredible but more on that later. Its my first access to a straight up regular new computer with DSL and everything and no limit. So here is a major picture update, the first for a while, that hopefully will give an

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i graduated from UW officially i just found out.This may be a mistake to post this, as its not like summa cum laude, but for 4 years and no summers school and almost half of my credits going towards premed, which isn´t a major, and which were significantly harder than the classes that were, I am proud of it.3.27 cumulative gpa. lifetime member of UW alumni association. I think that was my mom.

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Austrailians have been the theme of this vacation. I met them first in munich, then in paris, and then again 2 consecutive nights staying in our hostel with 2 different groups of them.A jolly bunch they are, they like beer, being loud, and lots of other stuff that I like. They have given me many pointers on what to see. Some notes about australia, new zealand, canadia, and other UK

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Paris: what a trip that place is. There is so much to see, and so little time to get it all in. There is a Paris musem pass that allows you unlimited visits with short lines to all 70, thats right 70 participating museums. We got it for 2 days and it let us into like 6 a piece. I went to the-Cluny, which contains medeval artOrsay, art from 1848 to 1912 or soLourve, which has everything before

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This is the arc of the last leg: Bruges to Paris, to Rouen, Caen, Hon Fleurs, Bayeux, Omaha beach, Point Du Hoc, Mont St. Michel, and Back to Paris.Paris is a gigantic site. It includes the arc de triomph, lourve, Notre Dame [a bunch of these] many impressionist museums, and much much more. It in itself is a huge project. I don't know if it would be ever possible to see it all, the lourve

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I became well again, and took off from Nurenmburg to Bruges, and from there to paris.I stopped in Cologne, Germany by accident, but it turns out they have a really good cathedral there so I stopped anc checked it out. Supposedly contains the bones of the 3 magi, but I thought the place was reconstructed like nearly everything else in the country. I was wrong, the planes were circling it nearly

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I don't have meningitis. I might have had mono, but now it looks like I had strep throat. And possilby ear problems in the past. German doctor stated that I had strep, possibly [not likely] mono. I will talk more about that below.I have improved from the illness down to a 100.5 temperature today. I will leave tommorrow thursday for belgium.I went to german doctor yesterday for this, and he

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I am absolutely miserable. I have cancelled all of amsterdam untill later in september or october. I hope to be better by wednesday. I am super sick and very down right now. I hope this doesn't happen to anybody else, and I am going to try and get to paris by friday at best. I have a high temp of 102+ and a pounding headache. If there isn't improvement soon, then I will seriously go insane.

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oh yeah, go ahead and check out students.washington.edu/asa2It has some pictures Alex Allen took on the trip. Its his blog, so don't take it too seriously.

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Hey friends, its good to be back to talk about my travels. What have I been doing? Recovering from a nasty illness.For those of you who don't know, I have an obnoxious problem with ear infections, and I have gone through 3 courses of amoxicillin in the last month and a half, and just as I ran out of emergency drugs which I specifically brought here, it flares up to 102 fever. I missed

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The latest portion of this trip sent me to Bavaria's Capital, Munchen. Home to the Hofbrauhaus, the Deutches Museum, and numerous lion sculptures, it was a fun and exciting place to go.Alex and Mauricio had tickets to Australia v Brazil, so I hung it solo for a while. We managed to find a last minute hotel for 50 euro apiece, which wasn't bad considering two entire countries decided to

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I am back in Vilseck, at least for one more partial day.Here is the story so far: [warning: long]I arrived in Frankfurt, which is a sprawling metropolitan city. Most of Germany's major medivel and ancient areas were wrecked during the war, and the country was more or less completely rebuilt over the last 60 years. All I have to say about that is that the marshall plan certainly did work,

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I am currently in the small town of Vilseck in Germany. It is mostly a US military establishment and my friend Alex Allen's parents live here and work for the US in some sort of capacity. I took a train from the Frankfurt Airport to Nurenburg, and then from there to here. The trains are quick and relatively reliable, especially with a Eurail pass which I have. Luckily, I was able to figure out a

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Well Everybody, I just graduated from UW yesterday and will be heading off to Germany on Monday. I am pretty excited about the trip. I will be flying out of Vancouver Canada to save a few bucks on the way out, and stopping in london for a few hours before getting to Frankfurt, Germany. Then I will be taking the train from there to Nurenburg, where my friends Mauricio and Alex are staying with

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