Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Austria... So far
On our first night in Vienna we went to this little park that was
totally a rip off of Disneyland (waaa I wanna go to disneyland) like
they had a snow white ride where the characters looked totally
identical to Disney characters and mickey was on the sign too LOL felt
very at home. I am pretty sick :-( I was not going to go into town
today to give myself time to recover but ddbd and bel our cook had to
shop for food so I went for a couple of hours and met them and came
back early. I almost froze to death last night!! I think I had a fever
either that or it dropped to negative 3000000 degrees I put nearly
everything I have on and stuffed the bottom of my bag with clothes but
the cold seems to still leak in, I should have brought a warmer bag.
There was 4 contiki groups in our site last night so everyone went out
partying and drinking. Conveniently I was awake trying to solve my
cold problem at about 345 when one of the
Groups came over to play a prank on us as we all do to each other they
were opening the tent doors so we would be cold and our bags would get
wet in the morning but I flashed them with my light and was like try
it and youll be sorry LOL but unforionatly I didnt think to check if
they had done it to others and some of the tents were open when people
woke up. Best pranks of the trip so far, putting a peg through the
zipers of the tent which all meet at the bottom and putting it really
deep in the ground so they can't
Get out of their tents in the morning and when we were in venice the
came and flipped our flys ( the top layer of the Tent that is water
proof if it rains) backwards so that we couldn't get to out doors and
literally burying the pegs by beating them so far in the ground so we
coulnt get them out and were locked out of our tents. Ps dad you still
didnt email me a picture of how you masacred my car. Love
totally a rip off of Disneyland (waaa I wanna go to disneyland) like
they had a snow white ride where the characters looked totally
identical to Disney characters and mickey was on the sign too LOL felt
very at home. I am pretty sick :-( I was not going to go into town
today to give myself time to recover but ddbd and bel our cook had to
shop for food so I went for a couple of hours and met them and came
back early. I almost froze to death last night!! I think I had a fever
either that or it dropped to negative 3000000 degrees I put nearly
everything I have on and stuffed the bottom of my bag with clothes but
the cold seems to still leak in, I should have brought a warmer bag.
There was 4 contiki groups in our site last night so everyone went out
partying and drinking. Conveniently I was awake trying to solve my
cold problem at about 345 when one of the
Groups came over to play a prank on us as we all do to each other they
were opening the tent doors so we would be cold and our bags would get
wet in the morning but I flashed them with my light and was like try
it and youll be sorry LOL but unforionatly I didnt think to check if
they had done it to others and some of the tents were open when people
woke up. Best pranks of the trip so far, putting a peg through the
zipers of the tent which all meet at the bottom and putting it really
deep in the ground so they can't
Get out of their tents in the morning and when we were in venice the
came and flipped our flys ( the top layer of the Tent that is water
proof if it rains) backwards so that we couldn't get to out doors and
literally burying the pegs by beating them so far in the ground so we
coulnt get them out and were locked out of our tents. Ps dad you still
didnt email me a picture of how you masacred my car. Love
Love you, Ashley
Monday, July 28, 2008
The eastern block in a nutshell
Sophia, Bulgaria
Stayed in hotel, spent most of day exploring. Shopped at stalls near
Alexander Nevsky cathedral. Didnt have to queue for shower. Gotta love
hotels. Found criminal minds in English on tv.
Stayed in hotel, spent most of day exploring. Shopped at stalls near
Alexander Nevsky cathedral. Didnt have to queue for shower. Gotta love
hotels. Found criminal minds in English on tv.
Ohrid, Macedonia
Camped again. Only had squatter pottys, I really hate squatters.
Stayed on lake ohrid, deepest lake in Europe. It was beautiful. Had
terrible terrible stopped traffic on the way there took about 3 hours
to go 2 kilometers. This guy crashed into our bus! We have a really
hot bus driver, like a footballer
from England if that helps imagine him. The guy freaked out and
tried to drive off and tony the bus driver went legging after the guy,
it was so funny we all thought that he was going to beat him up but he
only got his license plate. The guy was like, " I did not hit you" and
tony was like where the he'll do you think the big orange scrape came
from on the side of your car then. He was in a really bad mood for the
rest of the night. Apparently it was the first time he had crashed the
bus but it really wasnt his fault LOL the bus was literally in park in
stopped straffic and he hit us.
Tirana, Albania
Albania was sooooo beautiful if only I wasnt afriad to eat the food,
its all like
Little dingy resturants that dont refridgerate there meat. I literally
ate breakfast bars everymeal LOL they also looked like they could have
been in starqars because they have these little pill looking military
stations everywhere from communist times that look like ewoks might
use them it was cool.
Dubravnik, croasia
Not much to share here did a great cruise along the coast line and
spent the rest of the three days keeping kris company in the hospital
and trying to jailbreak him early against medical advice :-) silly
kris eating manky food and getting major bacterial infections and
getting dehydrated and having temp of 103 and needing to be on drip
for days.
Zadar,Croatia
Crossed through Bosnia and split. Saw amazing solar light show at night.
Budapest, Hungary
Beautiful buildings, really clean like with grafitti it was the
cleanist city plus
Didnt smell like piss. Did a
Cruise early in the day and got amazing photos. Went to house of
terror. Was the Nazi headquarters and had original cells and torture
devices it was scary love you guys but
Phone about to die love
Love you, Ashley!
Friday, July 18, 2008
The windows of my room looking down on Istanbul.
a big group of rather drunk girl's from the tour came back to the room
with jackie and Leigh who I am rooming with and they all started
yelling spoon Ashley LOL so I wake up and I'm like being dog piled by
5 girl's I immediately went back to sleep and I woke up thinking I had
had a really weird dream only to head down to breakfast to pictures
LOL they are so funny
Omg!!!
I had the most amazing day today!!!! As you know I am in Istanbul, its the best city ever!!!!!! This morning we had a bit of a sleep in, then left for a walking tour of the city. The blue mosque was so beautiful it was really cool because its still an active mosque so we saw people praying. There were two entrances, the visitors line which was very long, if you were coming to pray you could just walk straight in. You also had to take your shoes off. It was cool because women and men pray separately and the girl's area is way better. Next we had a carpet making demonstration that was amazing because it can take 2+ years for one person to make a silk one ( they were super expensive though) after this I skipped out because I had a headache but everyone else went to the grand bazar while i napped my headache away. At 330 I met the girl's at the Turkish bath, it was about 90 usd *gasp* but that's now bad when you consider you get 45 mins on hot marble slab
that's heated from the bottom and feels way better than the sauna because you can still breath the air and its very fresh because they have a traditional roof that is open it feels amazing did I mention you are naked? It was really comfortable LOL by the end i didn't want to put my clothes back on. After you have sweated more then you have inside you a very large Turkish women that is completely naked comes over. I had left my panties on just to see and she said something in Turkish to me and I was like what? And she pulled my panties off I was like ok then LOL then she bathes and exfoliates you inside and out it felt soooooooo good, rolls of skin are like coming off your entire body then she douses you with buckets of cold water and you move to your massage I had a 45 minute full body massage that both hurt so bad and felt so good and then a facial. When I was done I had never felt so clean in my life!!! I wasalso over ever caring about being naked
again. In the old times like back in roman and bizantine and ottoman empires women used the bath house as a social thing, young girl's would go there and old ladies would scope them out as possible brides for there sons. Love and miss you!
that's heated from the bottom and feels way better than the sauna because you can still breath the air and its very fresh because they have a traditional roof that is open it feels amazing did I mention you are naked? It was really comfortable LOL by the end i didn't want to put my clothes back on. After you have sweated more then you have inside you a very large Turkish women that is completely naked comes over. I had left my panties on just to see and she said something in Turkish to me and I was like what? And she pulled my panties off I was like ok then LOL then she bathes and exfoliates you inside and out it felt soooooooo good, rolls of skin are like coming off your entire body then she douses you with buckets of cold water and you move to your massage I had a 45 minute full body massage that both hurt so bad and felt so good and then a facial. When I was done I had never felt so clean in my life!!! I wasalso over ever caring about being naked
again. In the old times like back in roman and bizantine and ottoman empires women used the bath house as a social thing, young girl's would go there and old ladies would scope them out as possible brides for there sons. Love and miss you!
Love you, Ashley!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Istanbul
We arrived in Istanbul and checked into our hotel today. Free wifi again! Turkey is by far the most beautiful and facisnating country so far! I cant wait to go to the turkish baths tommorow. I miss you guys so much and I will update more tomorrow. Off to dinner now.
Love you, Ashley!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
In Turkey!
The hotel that we are staying at has wifi so I am able to update. My tour manager played a mean trick on us, she told us that our hotel was really bad, had squatter toilets and minging sheets. We were all terrified LOL but we pulled up to a four star hotel, right off the beach with a pool and great accomadations and a fancy resturante we get to eat in. It not only has chairs AND a table but glass plates and glasses and you can use two forks at one meal!!! The food was awesome as well. One annoying thing about Europe is that you have to pay for water, i have descovered a way around this however, watermellon is the key! They give you nice juicy watermellon for free so if you just get alot of that you won't be thirsty anymore. So my evening consisted of a quick swim at the pool, eating until it was physically painful and then retiring to my room for A good nights sleep. We have breakfast at 6 and bags to coach 30 mins after that. I'd better off because half
the group wants to use my phone because I have wifi and they don't want to pay. Love and miss you!
the group wants to use my phone because I have wifi and they don't want to pay. Love and miss you!
Love you, Ashley!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Last update for a while :-(
Heading into Turkey today and I won't be able to update in all of the eastern block :-(. Had dinner, did nails, sleep, woke up to screaming at midnight and jumped up to put the fly on our tent. We were being lazy because were only here for one night and we woulda been screwed, but got a cool lightning storm :-). Up at 5:55 is LOL for a six aclock tents down. Love and miss you guys!
Love you, Ashley!
Monday, July 14, 2008
Athens!
I had a great day in Athens today, despite the heat. It was about 95 today but with no air conditioning or shelter that is a bit hot. In the morning we went to the acropolous (can't spell) it was very cool (not literaly) then into town. We shopped for a bit, I'm so sick of shopping its all anyone ever wants to do, then lunch at this over priced touristy resturant just because it had air conditioning. I ordered the cabage and carrot salad and he misunderstood and thought I just wanted cabage and lettuce so I got a plate of cabbage and lettuce it was ok with lemon juice and vinegar though. Afterwards people wanted to shop more so me and nicola split off to do very Greek things LOL we went and saw momma MIA in English and ate kfc for dinner inside a mall with great air conditioning we ended up missing the meeting time by about an hour so we just Got the metro and a bus back to the campsite all in all a good day, love and miss you guys
Love you, Ashley!
Love you, Ashley!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
A couple of photos
A few photos of what I have been doing that last couple of days. After
Greece, today and tommorow, it will be a while until I can post again
because I can't use the Internet in any of the eastern countries which
is where I am heading. It seems that everyones inconciderate coughing
and breathing has gotten me sick! LOL its just a cold mommy not your
nighmare. A girl got bit by a posionious spider in Corfu and we had to
leave he behind in a private Greek hospital. She is supposed to meet
up with us today pending the results of her blood test, fingers
crossed. I conveniently forgot to mention this to my mommy till we
were out of the area. I got a bite on my eyelid that swelled my eye
shut it was terrible! The swelling is almost gone now. The bugs are on
steriods here. I better go but u miss you guys! How come no one ever
emails me anymore?! Amccollum08@yahoo.com!
Greece, today and tommorow, it will be a while until I can post again
because I can't use the Internet in any of the eastern countries which
is where I am heading. It seems that everyones inconciderate coughing
and breathing has gotten me sick! LOL its just a cold mommy not your
nighmare. A girl got bit by a posionious spider in Corfu and we had to
leave he behind in a private Greek hospital. She is supposed to meet
up with us today pending the results of her blood test, fingers
crossed. I conveniently forgot to mention this to my mommy till we
were out of the area. I got a bite on my eyelid that swelled my eye
shut it was terrible! The swelling is almost gone now. The bugs are on
steriods here. I better go but u miss you guys! How come no one ever
emails me anymore?! Amccollum08@yahoo.com!
Love you, Ashley!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
More Rome,Capri,sorrento
We seem to run into alot of unfortunate timings, in Rome public transportation was on strike so we couldn't get to the Vatican, on the way to Capri a bus crashed so we almost missed our boat because of traffic. It was alot of fun in Capri yesterday, we had an awesome and cheap lunch :-) by the beach then took the bus up to the top of the island we didn't realize how long that would take so we had to juump in a cab and head down to make our boat. The cab ride was the best part!!!!! It was so fast around these little corners and your hair was flying like crazy! He stopped and let is get pictures about 1/2 down because no one was behind us.the only bad part was that he charged us more than he quoted us at LOL but it was still cheap. After that we went to shop and dinner in sorrento, everything was cheap ;-) but ate really unhealthy and my tummy hurt afterward we are headed to Pompey now and a ferry to Greece tonight. love you guys, Ashley
Love you, Ashley!
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Similarities and eyes!
LOL, love the comments. To MEB yes! There is both a zoo and a trailer park so we are twins. However next week I will be entering turkey, I'm not sure if there will be a zoo and trailer park there so you might have a leg up on me! Lol but i will have turkish bath houses, how about you? To mom mom LOL no worries I usually only post the good stuff, such as in Florence I said we went to a club but I left out that I drank a bit too much and everyone keeps calling me smashley;-)LOL I'm afraid it might stick. Miss you guys lots but having too much fun to notice most of the time, Ashley
Love you, Ashley!
Nice, Venice, and florence
Its been a while since I updated text, there is always just so much to do that I cant find enough hours in the day. Nice was very nice LOL but I never got to go on the water :-( we walked around and explored for a while then bought lunch and took it with us as we climbed up to le chateau. It was a hard long climb and we were all really happy to find some shade to eat in. Then we went back to the campsite and changed and ate dinner before heading out to the monte carlo. In Venice we took a walking tour and saw a lace and glass blowing demonstration damn can hand made lace be expensive. We wandered around for a bit then found some shade to sit in. They are very stingy with there shade in Venice because they kept making us move, finally found somewhere to sit. In florence we saw a leather demonstation then had a walking tour of all the art and landmarks but kris and I got lost and spent a few minutes looking for the group before deciding just to spend the
day together and headed down so prmising looking streets only to run into the group right when we stopped looking, finished tour, had lunch at cheap little cafe that was really nice, 6 euro for a pizza big enough for 3 people it was fun then shopping and exploring, found cute sunglasses. Then headed back the campsite for a nap, then back out for amazing 4 course meal and clubbing miss you guys, love ashley
day together and headed down so prmising looking streets only to run into the group right when we stopped looking, finished tour, had lunch at cheap little cafe that was really nice, 6 euro for a pizza big enough for 3 people it was fun then shopping and exploring, found cute sunglasses. Then headed back the campsite for a nap, then back out for amazing 4 course meal and clubbing miss you guys, love ashley
Love you, Ashley!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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