Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
"Cola, Fanta, Cervesas, Agua!"
Hello.
This will probably be one of the last updates on our blog, which is very sad to say indeed. I cannot believe we go home in two days, although it feels as if we¨ve done so much in the past 5 weeks that I dont feel as if the trip has been short. Barcelona is as awesome as I remember it being the first time I was here, actually I would say its better because this time I actually got off my lazy ass and have seen 5 times the number of things I did the first time round. Christi and I have been keeping very busy seeing the sights, going to the beach (of course) and partying it up.
So far seen some of Gaudis (sp?) architecture, gone to the Park Guelle, the Olympic Park, and we did the Picasso museum. The Dali gallery and amusement park on the hill will be our next sights.
The nightlife in Barcelona has been a bit outrageous, by far the best of our trip. First night was pretty ridic (shortening random words is the new black okay...), we met a huge crew of people at the hostel, like 15 people, and hit the streets. Ended up going to a one euro shot bar with a completely loco bartender. When I went to pay for some drinks he literally took my hand and shoved it in his mouth, like knuckle deep, and slobbered all over it. It was so digusting. He then grabbed christi took her behind the bar and made her take photos with the bartenders. Being the rad person she is, she was able to negotiate some free shots in return for a picture with a pretty lady.
Thanks Kurt for all the skater bar recommendations, they have been fun. Met loads of skate bums from all over the world. One thing that sucks about Barcelona is the theft and prostitutes. Well boys get more victimized than we do, but seriously three of the people we have been out with so far have been robbed of their cameras. Our good Quebec friend Olivier lost all his pics of this epic 800 km Spanish pilgrimage he just completed, which left him with a really sour taste in his mouth on his last night in Barcelona. The prostitutes are crazy too, they seriously harrass the boys grabbing and pulling them into alleys. One of our Brit friends pretended to be this Aussie ´s girlfriend so that he would stop being harrassed and she ended up getting punched by one of the prostitutes. So theres been some drama, although, luckily none for us.
SO after 5 nights of being here and drinking tequila too often, I am looking forward to some down time in Van. to be honest we have literally dranken every single day (usually just a few beers :)) since weve been on this trip (yep im sure your really impressed, right parents?) so my liver is ready for a break.
anyways next steps for us are to fly back into London on Tuesday night, take a bus to a different airport, sleep in the airport til 11am when we catch our flight home. long story short we ve kind of effed around with our flight home so I am hoping that there are no issues in that respect (we cant really think of why there would be a problem) but we were supposed to fly out of Croatia not London. oops. :)
anyhoo I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Canada day and let us know what the plans are. muchos gracias.
Jess
This will probably be one of the last updates on our blog, which is very sad to say indeed. I cannot believe we go home in two days, although it feels as if we¨ve done so much in the past 5 weeks that I dont feel as if the trip has been short. Barcelona is as awesome as I remember it being the first time I was here, actually I would say its better because this time I actually got off my lazy ass and have seen 5 times the number of things I did the first time round. Christi and I have been keeping very busy seeing the sights, going to the beach (of course) and partying it up.
So far seen some of Gaudis (sp?) architecture, gone to the Park Guelle, the Olympic Park, and we did the Picasso museum. The Dali gallery and amusement park on the hill will be our next sights.
The nightlife in Barcelona has been a bit outrageous, by far the best of our trip. First night was pretty ridic (shortening random words is the new black okay...), we met a huge crew of people at the hostel, like 15 people, and hit the streets. Ended up going to a one euro shot bar with a completely loco bartender. When I went to pay for some drinks he literally took my hand and shoved it in his mouth, like knuckle deep, and slobbered all over it. It was so digusting. He then grabbed christi took her behind the bar and made her take photos with the bartenders. Being the rad person she is, she was able to negotiate some free shots in return for a picture with a pretty lady.
Thanks Kurt for all the skater bar recommendations, they have been fun. Met loads of skate bums from all over the world. One thing that sucks about Barcelona is the theft and prostitutes. Well boys get more victimized than we do, but seriously three of the people we have been out with so far have been robbed of their cameras. Our good Quebec friend Olivier lost all his pics of this epic 800 km Spanish pilgrimage he just completed, which left him with a really sour taste in his mouth on his last night in Barcelona. The prostitutes are crazy too, they seriously harrass the boys grabbing and pulling them into alleys. One of our Brit friends pretended to be this Aussie ´s girlfriend so that he would stop being harrassed and she ended up getting punched by one of the prostitutes. So theres been some drama, although, luckily none for us.
SO after 5 nights of being here and drinking tequila too often, I am looking forward to some down time in Van. to be honest we have literally dranken every single day (usually just a few beers :)) since weve been on this trip (yep im sure your really impressed, right parents?) so my liver is ready for a break.
anyways next steps for us are to fly back into London on Tuesday night, take a bus to a different airport, sleep in the airport til 11am when we catch our flight home. long story short we ve kind of effed around with our flight home so I am hoping that there are no issues in that respect (we cant really think of why there would be a problem) but we were supposed to fly out of Croatia not London. oops. :)
anyhoo I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Canada day and let us know what the plans are. muchos gracias.
Jess
Thursday, June 25, 2009
YO!!
Christi here!
Just wanted to fill on my pees in on the change "O" PLAN!
jESSE AND I BEING THE CRAZY CATS WE ARE DECIED TO PEACE OUT OF CROATIA AFTER A FEW DAYS OF BAD WEATHER...and tornados. So we grabed a flight to London and stayed with some friends. (Tom and Matt honourable mention) thank you for having us.
After a short stay in london we were off the Barcelona to tear up the town for a few days before we are back in van to bother all of you..........if anybody acually read this. (jesse´s parents i very much appercitate the comments and support over the past few weeks).
Alright talk to yalll soon see you in a week.
PEACE LOVE AND MOLLY
CLC
Christi here!
Just wanted to fill on my pees in on the change "O" PLAN!
jESSE AND I BEING THE CRAZY CATS WE ARE DECIED TO PEACE OUT OF CROATIA AFTER A FEW DAYS OF BAD WEATHER...and tornados. So we grabed a flight to London and stayed with some friends. (Tom and Matt honourable mention) thank you for having us.
After a short stay in london we were off the Barcelona to tear up the town for a few days before we are back in van to bother all of you..........if anybody acually read this. (jesse´s parents i very much appercitate the comments and support over the past few weeks).
Alright talk to yalll soon see you in a week.
PEACE LOVE AND MOLLY
CLC
Barcelona
Hiya,
This is gonna be a quickie because people are boring their eyeballs into my backside as they wait to use the computer. Looong story short we are now in Barcelona for a week, having flown through London from Croatia. To sum it up - shit weather in Croatia (tornado! although no one believes me on this...), and a general desire to have good times in the warm sun have led us to Barcelona.
Will give a better description later, but just in case we disappear into oblivion you will know where to start looking for us (have youn guys seen the movie Taken?).
J
This is gonna be a quickie because people are boring their eyeballs into my backside as they wait to use the computer. Looong story short we are now in Barcelona for a week, having flown through London from Croatia. To sum it up - shit weather in Croatia (tornado! although no one believes me on this...), and a general desire to have good times in the warm sun have led us to Barcelona.
Will give a better description later, but just in case we disappear into oblivion you will know where to start looking for us (have youn guys seen the movie Taken?).
J
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Vis, Croatia
We arrived to our little fisherman/ touristy island yesterday after a hellish hot hangover day on the boat. so happy to be off the boat!
The little island is very quaint, we lucked out with a very cute little apartment (the lavendar apt - named for all the lavendar that surrounds the house) that has a big kitchen and three beds. I think I forgot to mention that we have adopted another traveller with us for the past week and a bit - Erin from Aus. So the three of us were so excited about having our own little apt. We went for an intense bike ride yesterday which was actually a bit scary. It was like mtn biking without the sick mtn bike. so skidding on rocks and being thoroughly trashed around was the standard experience for a majority of the trip - I now give extra props to all u mtn bikers out there. It was a perfect day for biking though the weather was a bit overcast and windy so we didnt die of heat exhaustion. We found a really cool little cave/pool of water that Christi and I jumped into which resulted in some funny footage to maybe post. good times.
afterwards we picked up some food, some wine and some cherry brandy at the supermarket and made a huge feast while it monsooned outside. being able to make our own dinner for $12 each including everything was really awesome. the cheerry brandy, however, was not an awesome idea. maybe one glass would,ve been... :)
today we go to this other little town on the other side of the island to go adventure to some blue caves. we also say goodbye to erin as she heads up to slovenia. tomorrow we go back to split to catch a ferry to either the party/beach island of Pag or to Rijeka a big port city where we might be able to find another connecting ferry.
Jess
P.S. Happy Fathers Day Dad!
The little island is very quaint, we lucked out with a very cute little apartment (the lavendar apt - named for all the lavendar that surrounds the house) that has a big kitchen and three beds. I think I forgot to mention that we have adopted another traveller with us for the past week and a bit - Erin from Aus. So the three of us were so excited about having our own little apt. We went for an intense bike ride yesterday which was actually a bit scary. It was like mtn biking without the sick mtn bike. so skidding on rocks and being thoroughly trashed around was the standard experience for a majority of the trip - I now give extra props to all u mtn bikers out there. It was a perfect day for biking though the weather was a bit overcast and windy so we didnt die of heat exhaustion. We found a really cool little cave/pool of water that Christi and I jumped into which resulted in some funny footage to maybe post. good times.
afterwards we picked up some food, some wine and some cherry brandy at the supermarket and made a huge feast while it monsooned outside. being able to make our own dinner for $12 each including everything was really awesome. the cheerry brandy, however, was not an awesome idea. maybe one glass would,ve been... :)
today we go to this other little town on the other side of the island to go adventure to some blue caves. we also say goodbye to erin as she heads up to slovenia. tomorrow we go back to split to catch a ferry to either the party/beach island of Pag or to Rijeka a big port city where we might be able to find another connecting ferry.
Jess
P.S. Happy Fathers Day Dad!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Micasa, Croatia
Tonight is the last night on the boat. I (and I know Christi too) are so ready to be out of our 4ft by 10ft little boat cabin and the severe boat rocking that occurs every morning as our our boat sails off in stormier weather than we experienced earlier this week.
I am also ready to not shower in a 2ft by 3ft cubicle of a bathroom where u literally shower in the bathroom, no differentiarion between the shower and bathroom, u can shower on the toilet if u so choose. Its pretty funny but at least we have our own compared to the other boats!
Enough whining though really - geeze eh? the boat has really been so nice. and the food, amazing, and so much of it!. fish soup, salad, fresh seafood, olive oil, olives, and flaky pastries are served every day for lunch. everything is homemade and fresh, i think the boat food has honestlly been the best we have eaten the entire trip. I see why they say the mediterrean diet is so good for u. croatians are also big into making their own crazy strong liquor 50 percent plus, which we got to drink last night thanks to our generous boat crew. oh god, so strong, burns the whole way down. but makes it a bit easier to sleep besides the biug party boats. speaking of parties tonight we celebrate our final night with a pirate slash cant believe u wore that to this party - party, then off to a club that is located in a rock cave off the side of a cliff. we,ll see how we feel tomorrow morning in our rocking boat in our hot rocking cabin :).
next up for up for us is still unchartered (no cheesy boat pun intended, i swear ) think we,ll be heading off to a desolate northern croatian island for some relaxation and scooters then either Montenegro or Italy - wherever the sea takes us I guess.
Wish us luck for tomorrow am :). hello seasickness.
J
I am also ready to not shower in a 2ft by 3ft cubicle of a bathroom where u literally shower in the bathroom, no differentiarion between the shower and bathroom, u can shower on the toilet if u so choose. Its pretty funny but at least we have our own compared to the other boats!
Enough whining though really - geeze eh? the boat has really been so nice. and the food, amazing, and so much of it!. fish soup, salad, fresh seafood, olive oil, olives, and flaky pastries are served every day for lunch. everything is homemade and fresh, i think the boat food has honestlly been the best we have eaten the entire trip. I see why they say the mediterrean diet is so good for u. croatians are also big into making their own crazy strong liquor 50 percent plus, which we got to drink last night thanks to our generous boat crew. oh god, so strong, burns the whole way down. but makes it a bit easier to sleep besides the biug party boats. speaking of parties tonight we celebrate our final night with a pirate slash cant believe u wore that to this party - party, then off to a club that is located in a rock cave off the side of a cliff. we,ll see how we feel tomorrow morning in our rocking boat in our hot rocking cabin :).
next up for up for us is still unchartered (no cheesy boat pun intended, i swear ) think we,ll be heading off to a desolate northern croatian island for some relaxation and scooters then either Montenegro or Italy - wherever the sea takes us I guess.
Wish us luck for tomorrow am :). hello seasickness.
J
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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