so our time in cologne was always made better by the giant synagogue right beside our hostel. other then that the city didn't stick out much. remains of city walls, churches, bells, and a river. now dont get me wrong i loved it, just little to write about. when on my computer konz randomly came online; now we are in broken at konz's house. i thought he was in holland or canada. quite happy to be able to visit him.

fun fact: we are getting taken to the exact same beerfest mitch and josh went to all those years ago.

k so i slacked off. the days we spent in warsaw were boring. its a buisness town and we were a 20-25 min walk from anything cool. the hostel workers new so little they couldn't tell me where the nearest corner store, supermarket, restaurant, or pub was. when we got out of warsaw we went to berlin where it was a very nice city but unfortunately we saw no sights whatsoever. our time was dealing with sickness, finding hospitals, and trying to work things out. we left berlin and i kid you not we were on a train on a boat. i didn't know that was possible. apparently its faster.
we saw copenhagen and it was nice and all but our favorite part was training over one of the longest world bridges to get to malma. its a small southern swedish town, also the home of the swedish girls we met in krakow. we had a bbq on the beach, went swimming, and went clubbing with them. it was amazing to be with locals.
after all that fun we went to lypsig to visit josh's long lost family. they lived in the middle of nowhere, it was beautiful although there was no internet of cell signal of any kind. we were shown around once again by locals. i swear it makes it better. the only downer is the only person tat spoke 'fluent' english was 15. so i language barrier was hard but not impassable.
right now we just made it to colgune and right as you exit the train station there is quite possible tthe most amazing building we have seen so far. it is impressively large and made with gothic styling. were actually going to investigate it right now.

howdy neighbor. long time no talk. i blame it on the horrible internet connection we have had in poland so far. im broadcasting live from warsaw right now. so ill go all the way back to prague.
we took a free walking tour and some Scottish guy names peter gave us an amazing 4 hour tour in a thick accent. we realized weve been missing out this whole time because that was amazing so first thing we do in krakow was a free walking tour. not nearly as good but still quite fun. krakow is easily the most beautiful city we have been to so far. we went around town, saw shindler's factory, atched transformers 2, and on our last day went to Auschwitz. the last day was one of the most depressing day trips ever but we felt it was important to see. poland is so incredibly cheep we are racking up cash. we can live a day with accommodations for about 20 euro. so awesome. well we just got into warsaw and first order of business is we need food. im hungry must eat now.

chez it out

yea its a lame pun but our hostel the "chez inn" uses it so its alright. prague is a very beautiful city, like very beautiful. old town square has churches so elegant i feel like im in disneyland again. the night life here is also something to be reckoned with. today we decided to take one of our chill days that we take every week or so and just go for ameless walks and read most of the day. tomorrow, our last full day in prague we are going on a walking tour and probably take hundeds of pictures. sounds like fun to me. once again we got lucky with our hostel, its the third or fourth time that we have booked a large dorm and ended up with a private room for the same price. this time it was because our door keys didnt work. it actually getting cold again in the nights here. its so nice to get to wrap up in a blanket. were going to see some crazy concentration camps in poland. going to be a lot different then following the Mediterranean. o we also made te decision to alter our trip so that we see linkin park on the 1st of aug. a little scrambling around but we are going to make this happen.

vienna vienna vienna.... this city was a little different. i think we are getting accustom to a lot of european sights, granted vienna is cool we didnt get our minds blown. we have basically gone on many hour walking adventures is both day and night. we found an english cinema and watched startreck. it was pretty cool. we went shopping today and i finally replaced my razor that broke back in rome. tommorow we are off to prague for a few nights to see how things are there. o the best thing about it here is there is a fruit market right by our hostel. imagine it: real fruit. its so good after eating skimpy meals and fast food for the last month.

alright so its been too long i admit it. captain's log: star date 06/17/09. we reached the budapest galaxy two far days ago. the road was perilous and long. the last day in the athens star system held 11 hours of wandering. bulgeria held a 5-6 hour layover where we decided to treck the city and venture for food, all the eastern cities are so cool. so i guess i didnt specify, we took a night train to bulgeria, a night train to romania, and a night train to budapest. night trains are no super 8 hotel trust you me. you get woken up a minimum of 3 times: once for ticket and twice for passport (either side of the border). not cool. romania was super fun tho. we had an 11 hour layover and decided to get hopelessly lost in the city and see how many cool things we could find. most notably we watched the pixar blockbuster "up" in not only 3d but it was in romanian. man that movie was so good i didnt even need to understand the words and i was in tears. i recommend you go see it, NOW! but yea we saw the preview for transformers two and it literally blew my mind. like bam, gone. were going to see it wherever we are on the 26th. back to the novel, budapest is a beautiful city we saw many many cool places and also the royal plaice. i wish the pictures were free for public viewing but that is something unattainable at the moment. we are up early and leaving budapest today. good news is that we are staying in our third "famous hostel" as they call themselfs on famoushostels.com but do not be fooled they dont get given the name, they earn it. both weve been in have been simply amazing and i cannot wait to see what a restored building from the 1800's in the center of vienna has to offer. i guess thats all i have for one sitting, captain out.

so we have our last day in athens. our train doesnt leave until 1055 and we had to be out of our room at 11am so we have been wandering for the last 7 hours. we saw the ancient agora and went to do some shoppig on the way to old town. ended up getting some cool things. i got a france jersey and a man purse. it seemed convenient and i was feeling impulsive. im very glad that tonight we will have air conditioning on the train. sleeping in this ho of eather is terrible. you wake up sweaty and cant even consider pitting a sheet over you. well didnt have much to say and probably wont be able to blog for a few days till we make it to budapest. so hopefully the journey holds some fun.