Napoli, Athena and the glorious Greek Islands

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Secondly... ahhhh greece. We have made it from beautiful Roma, down the amalfi coast to Napoli (naples for you westerners :p) and in spite of being in the middle of a garbage strike it was a wonderful experience. We ate delicious world famous pizza, stayed in a very unique and friendly hostel and saw both pompei and Mnt. Vesuvius. After that we flew to Athens from Bari and had a much smoother flight that the one to Roma, which means I (Jacob) may be able to convince Claire to get on the plane and come home in a few weeks.


Athens wasn't nearly as dirty as people had described it, though our hostel had some disgusting flora fauna and other residents. We only stayed there for one night, but made the best of it with a six hour walking tour of Athens that included the Acropolis, the old ruins, the 1890 Olympic Stadium and a few other tidbits.


Finally, we took a ferry over to the island Aegina for 6 nights which is absolutely gorgeous... Between the mountains and the Ocean and the white and blue buildings, sand beaches, 30 degree weather, we are just loving it here!!!! And we learned how salty the mediterainian sea is!! Keep your mouth closed :)

Anyhow, we're thinking of you all and hope that you are keeping well.
Bye for now,
Jacob and Claire :)


(p.s. Claire likes napping ... a lot :p)

Roma!

Hey All, so we made it to Rome, and when the plane landed I nearly kissed the sweet Italian ground because our flight had so much turbulence for the last 30 minutes I thought I was going to die. People were screaming books flying around - it was terrible, needless to say i am super excited to fly to greece with Krazy Klown Airlines again. On top of all that, Jacob nearly got us arrested at the Barcelona Airport by trying to bring 2 knives and a fork on the plane....
Anyhow, we are now spending a few days touring the sites of Rome - Today we went to the Vatican Museum but it was closed so we'll try again tomorrow. So we had to settle on seeing the Pantheon, Castel sant Angelo, Some Berini fountains, the spanish steps, and Piazzo Del Popolo.
Thanks to everyone who left comments and who are reading up on our adventures, we miss you all :)

Ciao Bella,
ps. Jacob is too big for europe...but hes so cute :)

Barcelona

¡Ola!
hi everyone, well we finally made it out of france after a small detour through Toulouse where we enjoyed a day of biking around an a delicious meal of the local specialty - Duck!
So now we made it to Barcelona which is gorgeous! The people are very friendly and the streets are clean. But the architecture is really what amazes us here, each building seems so unique and of course all of the different buildings designed by Gaudi - he and Dali must have been on the same drugs, I mean...who would build a real life gingerbread house! I wish we could put up some of the pictures but the computer at our hostel won´t let us. Our hostel here is really good, in a very clean neck of the woods and last night we went out with a bunch of other traveling Canadians.
On Saturday we are flying to Rome...we were intending on taking the train, however the ride is 26hours...believe it or not we weren´t too into that!
So Adios for now and hopefully our hostel in Rome will let us post some more photos!!

The black stuffed toy is Lola, we miss her :(

_mont saint michel_

Un Chat? Cest ne pas un chat! cest LOLA!

Hi everyone, we are having a good time, though slightly trapped in France due to there 5 day holiday. Our 6:55 am train in a few days time will take us to barcelona and we will finally be free! For now we are going to try and find a winery to enjoy in Toulouse, and look forward to mopeding down the coasts of spain.





Hopefully I wont have to walk much farther like this...

Hello All, We have arrived in Paris and spent many many hours sur les pied tromping around seeing all the sights and fights that the passionate Parisiens have to offer. We have learned a bit about the french culture too...first off, there is nobody over 30 here, 2nd nobody works...or if so it is like a 3 hour workday - the rest of the time you can find everyone lounging around in front of the Louvre or the Seine.
Our hostel is directly in the red light district, in fact there is a Tranny club right across the rue...ne pas de probleme...i have spent a year working at Bloor & Sherbourne.
Hope everyone is well and enjoying drab T.O.