Bullfight Stadium in Madrid:

Here we are in front of the Monaco – Monte Carlo Casino (the Casino in some of the James Bond Movies):

Next we had to stop the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling over (like all the other tourists):

And here we are in the Colosseum in Rome:

And here in Venice we had to take a gondola ride:

These are all the pictures for now!

Andreas & Corey

From there was Florence. We had a little trouble with our hotel there, but ended up in a better place, so it worked out. We saw the duomo, David… and pretty much everything else to see! Gorgeous, romantic, and pretty clean too. We were there for about a day and a half, and then on to Rome!

Rome was…crazy. So far it was the most crowded with tourists. It also involved the most walking in the shortest amount of time that I think any two people have ever walked (only there for a day and a half again). Does not result in happy feet, btw. We saw all that we had time (and energy) to see, but we definitely could have used more time to see even more. We got guided tours for the colosseum and the Vatican, which was pretty expensive, but worth it we thought. We also met some pretty cool people in our hostel, and it’s always good to have a good hostel experience .

Now we’re in Venice, and it’s so amazing. You think you kind of know what to expect, but with all the canals going through the entire city it’s different than any other place we’ve been so far. Also cleaner then i thought it would be, but WAY more shopping and souvenir places than probably all the other cities too. Pretty much all the things to see here are churches, which we’ve seen by now, and the rest of the experience of Venice comes with walking around and shopping! And getting a gondola ride of course, which is fantastic (and so romantic ). Now we’re just going to hang out until our night train to Munich…and then off to Greece!!

The people: pretty much keep to themselves, and very individualistic
Culture: When do they eat? Where do they eat? What do they eat? Only people we’ve seen eating an actual meal have been tourists.

May 2010

June 2010

The Page references in this outline go to the document from eurail.com which has all the train schedules in entire Europe on it : http://www.eurail.com/downloads/eurail/eurail-timetable-2010-trains-europe.pdf

I have also attached the word document that has all the information including the cutouts of our train connections.

Europe Trip Calendar

We thought we would start our blog with our flight schedule, because now that we know how much time in Europe we have we can plan the rest.