Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

 

Dublin, Ireland- St. Patrick's Day '06

on thursday we (me, rachel, andy, and mike) woke up at 5 a.m., walked to haymarket, took the metro to the airport, and took a plane to dublin. we got settled in our hostel and went to a pub, dinner, and then the hotel bar. we met helen and chris who we...

 

Friends are the family you choose - 2 years in London

I have been asked by a number of people to keep the stories coming. The feedback l have had from many of you has been so complimentary and flattering. I hope l can continue to make you laugh (l would be happy with a smile), sometimes cringe and l know ...

 

Europe 2006

I arrived at Dusseldorf airport to have Pam and Pier pick me up. It was quite late in the evening, and the weather was not the flashest - so we grabbed a quick beer, a bite to eat, and headed back to Pam's place to have a nice long cachup! The next ...

 

Europe 2005-2006

Paris, my new love...

 

Europe and Asia Extravaganza 2006

Hi! I have skipped over this entry temporarily. I have someone anxiously waiting on news about Ireland. I will come back to it as soon as I can. Best wishes from Yangshuo, China, Tiff...

 

Life of a Working Holidaymaker

A significant month. The 15th marked my 6 month anniversary of arrival in London. In celebration, I spent the day in Cambridge. It was a great day, with beautiful weather and plenty of green fields, pretty rivers, funky old buildings, and lazing uni st...

 

Ireland St. Pattys Day

Dublin Ireland has been my first big trip since getting to England. It was insane! We (amanda, rachel, mike and I) flew into Dublin on the 16th and met a fellow traveler Chris and his friend Helen who were staying at our airport. We immediately foun...

 

Europe and Beyond 2005-2006

Flew from Santiago de Compostella, Spain to Hahn, Germany, then travelled up to Frankfurt to fly back to the USA....

 

Un Soggiorno in Italia

Today I was stopped on my bike in the middle of Via Saraceno because there was a truck blocking the way. After a couple seconds, I decided it would be better to dismount and walk the bike around. However, my bike is a boy bike and not a girl bike, mean...

 

Ireland June 2006

Ireland... It was a gloomy day arriving in Dublin and upon leaving the rain was out. it's a lovely country ireland... it actually reminds me alot like home... very green fields...sheep and beautiful scenery. we drove from dublin to cork then t...

 

FreeMegan

ok.... so ive been slacking on the whole travel journal thing... but thats probably becuase i havnt been doing much actualy traveling out side of home....work...pub...home...work...beach...pub... and it goes on... heres the updates anyway. -didnt m...

 

Ireland

I arrived in Dublin at 8am and got a bus transfer to the train station. My train didnt come for another 4 hours so I put my bags in a locker and went into Dublin town. There was heaps of nice shops and little stalls. I got on my train at the front onl...

 

Ireland 2004

Aug 1 - London → Cork Aug 2 - Cork → Cobh Aug 3 - Cobh → Limerick Aug 4 - Limerick → Waterford Aug 5 - Waterford → Kilkenny Aug 6 - Kilkenny → Dublin Aug 7 - Dublin Aug 8 - Dublin Aug 9 - Dublin → London...

 

My Semester Abroad

Our weekend in Paris was full of interesting sites and people. Communicating in another language is always fun, especially when you don't know it. And as most of you all know I have a hard enough time communicating my thoughts in English let alone in...

 

Ireland and Northern Ireland, January 2007

It seemed like a good idea to take half a day off work to get to Dublin early and explore the city before leaving on our Northern Ireland tour on the Friday morning. Unfortunately Mother Nature had other plans for Navin and I as our original flight wa...

 

Celtic Honeymoon

Irish mornings are amazing, full of mist and cold, evoking a sense of magic. We gathered up our stuff, had a wonderful breakfast, and set out for our next destination, the Rock of Cashel, on our way to Dingle. As we drove down the road down the Tipp...

 

IRELAND

Ireland is as beautifully green as one might imagine, which is the result of plenty of rain. I spent a few days in Dublin just after visiting London. During my time, I took a day tour down to Wicklow. It is actually the place where Braveheart was filme...

 

Let´s play the traveling game.

That's what I like in my cities. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg blaring through the streets. We decided to take a mini detour to Budapest. It's been muggy and chock full of fun stuff. The day we got here, we discovered that President Bush was following us i...

 

Exchange 06/07

so flight was rather unveventful most interesting thing was my flight attentents name was Poo. yeah thought it was funny... got lots of free alks yeww! had a stop over in japan sayed in a like 5 star hotel its was cool. It had a toilet that squirted wa...

 

Ireland

well its been ages since i've written in here, and it's not from lack of doing anything. As you know we now live in Ireland and are having a great time. Since I last wrote we have seen plenty of things from Paris for a second time (I really enjoyed it ...

 

Tour of Ireland

toured ireland with paddywagon tours...

 

Ireland 03-04

QUB Queens University (from here on out referred to as QUB) is a beautiful campus. The Lanyon building is the landmark building,and unfortunately i didn't have any classes in there. I took three classes: Beginners Irish 1, Pest and Disease Biology, ...

 

Euro Trip 2006

We spent this past weekend in Budapest, Hungary. The train ride there took almost 15 hours and our seats were right next to the smoking car (yuck)! Scott and I probably had three packs each by the time we arrived in Budapest. Once we got checked-in to...

 

APs European Vacation

Musee D'Orsay: awesome. Sculptures rocked the house. Three in particular reminded me of the superior AP, Diz and me. Hard to explain why. There was also a painting that screamed Rohan. Waves of purple. Cool stuff. Versailles: also pretty awesome. Cr...

 

2006 Holiday

 

Studying Abroad in Paris, Spring 2007

To visit Lauren. Wednesday I got into Dublin and suddenly remembering that they "parlez anglais" in this country. It was wonderfully refreshing! My old roommate Lauren met me at the bus stop from the airport, and greeted me at Trinity...

 

Dublin - March 2006

As many of you will know, I have a special fondness for St Patrick's Day - because it's also my birthday! (And Dave's, my birthday buddy.) So this year I was really spoiled, James bought us tickets to Dublin - yeah!! We flew out on the morning of ...

 

Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

 

Marathon Journey

the Big Apple .. nothing like it ..the city or the marathon.. unbelievable! didn`t quite get the travel right on this one .. arrived the day before, walked across town to the expo and then woke up at midnight to the sound of my alarm.. race day came an...