Back in Canada now after a great month of touring with 15kg packs. Backs feel good this morning since we don't have to shoulder all our possessions and yesterday was a looong day of travel.
Took off from London Gatwick after sitting on the tarmac for 1.5 hours and were conveniently seated in the perfect storm of 3 babies. Screaming began as soon as we boarded the plane and stopped only when the Gravol drugged the little buggers. Never thought I'd see the Hannah Montana movie, but when you fly Air Transat they apparently dig through the Bargain Shop movie bin for their feature films. A mere 9.5 hours later, we landed at Pearson where a little Barb (Halsall) picked us up.
We'd like to thank all those for following the blog throughout our adventures. Many more pictures to come and Calgary is in under a week now... we enjoy travelling apparently!
Guelph/London crowd - around next Wednesday?
Au revoir!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Last day being Europeans :(
Today we are in Bruge. We got here yesterday late afternoon and we were done exploring by early evening. We sat around at the bar in the hostel with some other Canadians and the guy that works here; it was quite entertaining. Also, somehow with the cheap prices and happy hour, we ended up getting 8 drinks for 9 euro: best place ever! Anywho, we are off to Brussels today to catch the chunnel train back to London and then we fly home tomorrow.
We will see you all very soon, once we are on Canadian soil again. Please take note of the picture of Graham as that is what he looks like now...give or take a couple pounds as we have been in the land of fries, waffles, and chocolate. Oh and please pick us up at the airport someone? We arrive shortly after 3pm.
Signing off,
Graham and Jess
We will see you all very soon, once we are on Canadian soil again. Please take note of the picture of Graham as that is what he looks like now...give or take a couple pounds as we have been in the land of fries, waffles, and chocolate. Oh and please pick us up at the airport someone? We arrive shortly after 3pm.
Signing off,
Graham and Jess
Sunday, July 26, 2009
We in Amsterdam, mon...
Hello in Dutch to you all,
We are safe and sound in Amsterdam after a busy day of travel yesterday followed by an evening of touring the city. Have 6 other roommates in our little room, so sleeping wasn't the smoothest in the world, but we woke up for a huge breakfast at the hostel.
Got out around 10:30 this morning for a tourist day in the city. Saw what the red light district looks like on Sunday mornings (ie. dead) so we'll make it back there tonight and see what we can see. Best idea of the day was a boat cruise through the canal/river system they have chopping through the city. Still coming down from our second-hand smoke highs and have just finished some ice cream as a result. Everything is pretty damn expensive in this city, yet the freaks of the world seem to assemble here (see pictures for more detail).
Off to Belgium tomorrow and ending up in Bruges eventually. We posted pictures of previous days so have a peek.
Happy hour, so bye!
We are safe and sound in Amsterdam after a busy day of travel yesterday followed by an evening of touring the city. Have 6 other roommates in our little room, so sleeping wasn't the smoothest in the world, but we woke up for a huge breakfast at the hostel.
Got out around 10:30 this morning for a tourist day in the city. Saw what the red light district looks like on Sunday mornings (ie. dead) so we'll make it back there tonight and see what we can see. Best idea of the day was a boat cruise through the canal/river system they have chopping through the city. Still coming down from our second-hand smoke highs and have just finished some ice cream as a result. Everything is pretty damn expensive in this city, yet the freaks of the world seem to assemble here (see pictures for more detail).
Off to Belgium tomorrow and ending up in Bruges eventually. We posted pictures of previous days so have a peek.
Happy hour, so bye!
Friday, July 24, 2009
An Irishman, an Aussie, a Dane and a Canadian are in a canoe...
Not really a canoe, but more of a hostel. We have hit the international motherlode of a hostel in Heidelberg and it is a great place to stay. Made some international friends who we will never see again. We also have the creepiest room mate possible (from Iowa, explains it) who is here on a pilgrimage for church music and Bach's life history. Other than him, things are cool in Heidelberg.
Climbed a 17% grade hill today to get to Schloß (castle) perched high above town. Rented bikes and rode around town and up and down the river bike path. Very bike friendly place with paths and bike lanes everywhere. Jess would like to mention the 'most important' event of today: hunting down two gummie bear shops right beside each other. We've already eaten an entire pack of these things and our chins are multiplying daily.
Heading out to show the Irish how to drink, then off to Amsterdam in the morning. We have some awesome pics and hope to post them once in the land of red lights and green plants.
Guten nacht!
Climbed a 17% grade hill today to get to Schloß (castle) perched high above town. Rented bikes and rode around town and up and down the river bike path. Very bike friendly place with paths and bike lanes everywhere. Jess would like to mention the 'most important' event of today: hunting down two gummie bear shops right beside each other. We've already eaten an entire pack of these things and our chins are multiplying daily.
Heading out to show the Irish how to drink, then off to Amsterdam in the morning. We have some awesome pics and hope to post them once in the land of red lights and green plants.
Guten nacht!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
One beer, two beer, three beer Graham is on the floor...
Hello all,
Just a quick note to report today. We made it to our hostel in Heidelberg and it is quite nice..mind you, we have yet to meet our two roommates so we will have more to report once that happens. We have free internet so we thought we would take some time to post pictures and a little note about the Haufbrauhaus. As you can tell by the title of this post that one of us may have had one too many litre beers last night. I will let you decide who that was, but seeing how I am the only one of us that can concentrate on a computer screen it is a pretty easy guess. The Germans are really to blame though, who serves litre beers and expects you to still be able to walk home in a straight line, or get home at all for that matter. We went last night at 7ish planning on staying for a couple hours and being home before all the crazies came out..unfortunately 4 litres of beer later Graham was one of the crazies...I'm not sure but Erich you can correct me, I think 4 litres of beer is more than 3 litres..am I right? That was a little note from Graham. I was a baby though and only had 2.5 litres.
All is well at this hostel. It was raining when we arrived so we went and did some laundry and sobered up. Now out on the town for a evening of sobriety.
Unfortunately see you all in less than a week.
Peace and Love.
Just a quick note to report today. We made it to our hostel in Heidelberg and it is quite nice..mind you, we have yet to meet our two roommates so we will have more to report once that happens. We have free internet so we thought we would take some time to post pictures and a little note about the Haufbrauhaus. As you can tell by the title of this post that one of us may have had one too many litre beers last night. I will let you decide who that was, but seeing how I am the only one of us that can concentrate on a computer screen it is a pretty easy guess. The Germans are really to blame though, who serves litre beers and expects you to still be able to walk home in a straight line, or get home at all for that matter. We went last night at 7ish planning on staying for a couple hours and being home before all the crazies came out..unfortunately 4 litres of beer later Graham was one of the crazies...I'm not sure but Erich you can correct me, I think 4 litres of beer is more than 3 litres..am I right? That was a little note from Graham. I was a baby though and only had 2.5 litres.
All is well at this hostel. It was raining when we arrived so we went and did some laundry and sobered up. Now out on the town for a evening of sobriety.
Unfortunately see you all in less than a week.
Peace and Love.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
It was zee greatest beer in all zee world
Guten noon hour,
Had an adventurous day yesterday with some classy bus tour companions en route to two castles built by crazy King Ludwig some time ago. As the first and last bus tour ever, it was the only way to get into the mountains to see these places and it was well worth it.
Started with an 8am rendez vous across the street from our ho(s)tel. Naturally had 2 pastries and a cheese covered pretzel for breakfast and headed to Linderhof Castle. Quickly realized we were in the presence of THE token American tourists; talking about the Green Bay Packers and how they were totally going all the way this year.
Castle was great, Jess and I were the fastest walkers, and then headed up to an unpronounceable ski resort town for lunch. Had another cheese covered bread and sandwich. Off to Neuschwanstein and we needed to carb up on beer for the 1.5km uphill '40 min' hike. We nailed it in 16 minutes in 30' heat. Castle was awesome, the tour guide was off his rocker creepy, and we headed back to the bus for 4:20. Ended up sitting there for 30 more minutes because 2 people never showed and we left them behind in the end 2 hours away from Munich.
Headed out for supper where Jess downed 5 sausages and I had jagershnitzel. Lauenbrau all around.
Today we may rent some bikes and cruise the city. Evening will bring Hofbrauhaus which will likely bring an early morning for our departure to Heidelberg. That's all for now and thanks for reading!
Emma: I guess I deserved that. But those are lies.
Grahamhaus and Jessicaschnitzel
Had an adventurous day yesterday with some classy bus tour companions en route to two castles built by crazy King Ludwig some time ago. As the first and last bus tour ever, it was the only way to get into the mountains to see these places and it was well worth it.
Started with an 8am rendez vous across the street from our ho(s)tel. Naturally had 2 pastries and a cheese covered pretzel for breakfast and headed to Linderhof Castle. Quickly realized we were in the presence of THE token American tourists; talking about the Green Bay Packers and how they were totally going all the way this year.
Castle was great, Jess and I were the fastest walkers, and then headed up to an unpronounceable ski resort town for lunch. Had another cheese covered bread and sandwich. Off to Neuschwanstein and we needed to carb up on beer for the 1.5km uphill '40 min' hike. We nailed it in 16 minutes in 30' heat. Castle was awesome, the tour guide was off his rocker creepy, and we headed back to the bus for 4:20. Ended up sitting there for 30 more minutes because 2 people never showed and we left them behind in the end 2 hours away from Munich.
Headed out for supper where Jess downed 5 sausages and I had jagershnitzel. Lauenbrau all around.
Today we may rent some bikes and cruise the city. Evening will bring Hofbrauhaus which will likely bring an early morning for our departure to Heidelberg. That's all for now and thanks for reading!
Emma: I guess I deserved that. But those are lies.
Grahamhaus and Jessicaschnitzel
Monday, July 20, 2009
Beer Fest!
Hello all,
Last time we wrote we were about to go out to get some delicious dinner and boy did we! We had mega schnitzel for dinner....schnitzel as big as your head (and really your head not ours...our heads have grown three sizes because we have eaten so many delicious pastries and soon to be schnitzels. Anywho our second daz in Freiburg we went to the Shauinsland Cable Car...ascended 1300 vertical metres and walked around a scenic trail...and then of course had some black forest ham for a midday snack. For dinner this night we decided to forego the usual meat, potatoes, vegetables and just have ICE CREAM!! That's right mom's (Barbs) your kids had ice cream for dinner and then PIZZA for dessert....fat kids, fat kids, fat kids. If you would like to start donating to our two seats on our way back please send a little comment...we'll need the extra space! We also had our first translation error at a restaurant; while it was no egg lasagna I did accidentally order a tomato and onion salad. Only tomato and onion, nothing else; but that is what i get for trying to order cheap and healthy!
This morning we caught a train to Munich at 6:52, however it was 5 minutes late and we only had 8 minutes for a transfer....close call but we're here. We've had our schnitzel sandwich, beer, and now heading out for some more schnitzel and beer. Graham has also found DAS BOOT...for those who don't know, it's from Beer Fest (a movie)...that is what he will be bringing home as a souvenir/maybe he'll bring two for party pleasers.
We'd like to post pictures but cannot unfortunately. Tomorrow we're off to the Neuschwanstein castle tour to do some more walking. Hope you are all doing well. Please seriously start thinking about the money you can donate towards us being too fat to come home in two seats.
Gutentag.
Last time we wrote we were about to go out to get some delicious dinner and boy did we! We had mega schnitzel for dinner....schnitzel as big as your head (and really your head not ours...our heads have grown three sizes because we have eaten so many delicious pastries and soon to be schnitzels. Anywho our second daz in Freiburg we went to the Shauinsland Cable Car...ascended 1300 vertical metres and walked around a scenic trail...and then of course had some black forest ham for a midday snack. For dinner this night we decided to forego the usual meat, potatoes, vegetables and just have ICE CREAM!! That's right mom's (Barbs) your kids had ice cream for dinner and then PIZZA for dessert....fat kids, fat kids, fat kids. If you would like to start donating to our two seats on our way back please send a little comment...we'll need the extra space! We also had our first translation error at a restaurant; while it was no egg lasagna I did accidentally order a tomato and onion salad. Only tomato and onion, nothing else; but that is what i get for trying to order cheap and healthy!
This morning we caught a train to Munich at 6:52, however it was 5 minutes late and we only had 8 minutes for a transfer....close call but we're here. We've had our schnitzel sandwich, beer, and now heading out for some more schnitzel and beer. Graham has also found DAS BOOT...for those who don't know, it's from Beer Fest (a movie)...that is what he will be bringing home as a souvenir/maybe he'll bring two for party pleasers.
We'd like to post pictures but cannot unfortunately. Tomorrow we're off to the Neuschwanstein castle tour to do some more walking. Hope you are all doing well. Please seriously start thinking about the money you can donate towards us being too fat to come home in two seats.
Gutentag.
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