absinthe

i kinda forget where i left off but yesterday we tourised it up and saw the colliseum, the trevy fountain, and the spanish steps. they were all pretty cool but the main event of that day was that on our way back to the metro we found an absenthe shop. and chose since it is legal here to give it a test. we decided on one 20cl bottle of some french (apparently the best) absinthe and some wormwood extract (since it was in such a small bottle). after drinking the decivingly small bottle of french absinthe we continued on to the extract. after three hours of drinking about three or four times that dose the sissy girl gave us our feelings were dessapointly null. a sort of lusid mild drunkeness is the best way i can describe it. one good story did come of it tho. i woke up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night very groggy, halfway through my urination i realise there is something curled up in the corner of the shower, my first reaction was i thought it was the demon baby from the grudge and i started yelling "what the f*@%!!!!!!". demon baby replied "its better in the shower". apparently josh sleepwalks.

so we made it to rome, well actually 40 min outside of rome in a campsite like resort the is a nice change of senery from the busy citys. we decided our first day here would be our day off so we went to the beach instead of into the city, barcelona was still nicer, because we are on a resort town there is dozens of private beaches and about a 30 min walk after a bus ride to the public beach. tongiht we are going to have some fun at the local club, or disco as they call it because its friday.

so last night i went out with two aussys and two canadians from toroto josh and frazer decided to sleep and me and he randoms went to some chicks apartment, drank a lil, then after a large search for her friends just went to a club where some chick bought me drinks. i went to walk home wher i met some spanish guy, we didn't understand each other then 6 more canadians from al over came and we made it anothr party, it was great. we woke up late, maybe just me, and went to pizza to see the leaning tower, it was ok. we came home and watched the barcelona vs manchester football game, the championship final in a crowded bar it was great. tomorrow is rome then 7 days in corfu grease on the beach

after a short train ride today we arrived in florance. im sad to leave venice, a large part of it is because our hostel was so good. it was more like staying with relitives then anything else. our "mom"s daugeter is quoted saying when she gets a boyfriend she hopes he is not like us, in a good way of course, she is 12, apparently we are immature. we went to see the david today and it was basically a sea of tourists looking at a statue, its cool and all but my mind was far from blown. its so stinking hot here and the differance is in canada you have air conditioning or can go to a basement, here its hot all day all night. you sweat when your awake, moving, sitting, chillin, and sleeping. so basically you need large water bottles all the time just to keep yourself sane. the two things im looking forward the most are our week on the beach in grease that is coming up and the boat ride we are taking from rome to get there.

well our last day in venice. florance tomorrow. i hope the ice cream is as good as it was here. and hopefully there is less birds trying to steal your food. so last night we went out for one beer before bed. four hours later we got back. we met some englishmen dressed as pirates for a wedding party. they were wicked fun and ed's dad bought us drinks which was awesome. so we no have contacts in london, looks like we will never be alone on the second half of our journey. this morning josh and i got up early for a run then we basically slept till afternoon then saw some show about da'vinci and his creations it was alright. frazer's nose randomly turned into a blood faucet. good thing we were near to the hostel. we ate spagetti with lobster and felt gangsta. tonight we just want to chill but somehow that never happens here in europe

So we got to venice yesterday and wow its hot here. Were right in the midst of it all in an actual house being used as a hostel so its very nice for once we have a kitchen and a porch with a couch so we have somewhere to chill during the hot part of the day. There isnt many people staying here since there is only a few rooms. Our “mom” here cooks us breakfast and is very nice, we havent even paid for the stay yet. Last night we basically just had some wine and chilled out, josh fell in the water, then we partied and met some more germans that live near cologne. More people to party with when we are there. Today we got up early and went on a random venice adventure and got hopelessly lost for hours it was very fun. There churches arn't even close to the ones in genova tho. Everything here is more evpensive and we slowly are getting sore from our travels so we are all looking forward to the week or so we are going to spend in grease after florance and rome, a long way to go. When we went to the market and saw a dog on its hind legs begging to the meat counter, it was so italian. O and by the way we cant get anything from street vendors unfortunately because its rank huge fine if you get caught. No internet in the hostel so we are in a nice little bar a little ways away

so a couple things hit my attention. europe is just one giant skate park, seriousally. anywhere you was practially made for skateboarding. another is that pda is way too hardcore here, couples never get more then three centimeters away from eachother at any given moment, easy to get sick of that. third thing i realised is everything is an adventure. today we work up early and decided that venice was our next place we wanted to stay so we jumped on a few trains and by like 2 we realised that there was no frickin way we were making it to venice before dark, we would be there at like 9-11ish and we didnt have a hostel booked, a map, or anything. so we at thee we just decided to stay 2 stops away at a place named geneva. we really had no idea what it was but its this crazy awesome hilly town on the beach with some crazy ass churches. them christian folk had way too much damn money back then. our train ride was awesome for once cause we were in a cart with a middle aged couple from flordia and some young chicks from edmonton. so it was a whole cart of people speaking english for the first time since canada. italy has the best ice cream ever (so far) we cant get enough of it. their beer is alright but i would'nt brag about it. so venice is still our destination we are going to bed early tonight so we can be on the train as early as possible tommorrow and get over to a city with some water in it. last night we went for a few hour walk around nice and saw pretty much everything i think, everything the map had on it pretty much. we have a ton of pictures but apparently it takes an eternity to load them onto anything and were all too lazy to keep it up. just wait till we get to somewhere with steady free wifi like barcelona did. then we will be all over it i promise.

nice!

well i havent had internet in a while so ill have to start back at the results of the pub crawl. it was amazing! although it was pretty much all tourists they were from all over and there was a lot of canadians there. we went to four bars and one club. highlights include: josh buying a drink for a tranny haha, cipetas (i think thats how its spelt) it was a bar with the crazyest shots ever, everything was on fire and shit. we had to drink things on fire marshmellows were cooked with the flaming shots it was just crazy. apparently its fair that 30 year old dudes were hitting on fat 19 year old chicks, the works part was that it was working for him so strange. final highlight we mistakenly asked a hooker for directions on our way home and she was... well.. an aggressive salesperson. since we didn't want her product at all josh offered her a cookie haha. funny thing is she pointed us in the right direction. the next when we woke up a lil groggy we just straight from the metro to the trains for a day of fun on a few trains all the way to nice (a costal town in france) where i do have to thank mr hounjet for that year of french i took because being able to understand a dozen ords off the bat is much better then just knowing hola. we got into nice at 1 in the morning and after sleep we adventured the town (pictures to come). its pretty nice here but he sand is just medium to large pebles. not as nice as barcelona forsure. we went swimming for a while the ocean beats bare ass beach i have to admitt. the girls in nice are all striving to be as skinny as possible apparently and the wear dresses everywhere so we fit in completely looking like slobs. we dont know how long we will be here and arnt too sure where to go next so i'm off and we shall she what lies ahead of us

another chill night gone wrong. we tried to just have a few beer lastnight and we ended up meeting girls from nethrlands, uk, chez, and poland and had some homemade alch with them. it was incredibly strong. once again we were up till all hours of the night and once again i missed breakfast. today we ar just chillin and doing laundry. pumping outselves up for the pub crawl a bunch of us are going on tonight. it shall be great. im going to sleep cause i missed siesta time

germans

we met a very large group of germans last night from cologne and went to te beach to have some drinks and celebrate this lisa girl's birthday at midnight. ended up being up til like 4 again i think but at least this time i was up for breakfast at 8, quite the accomplishment. we got information from a few of the germans and are going to meet up with them and party when we are around there. we are heading to nice france i believe on wednsday where we ar probably going to meet up with miachel and the lesbians from flordia

sunday may 17

yesterday we were planning on a very chill day. me and josh went to the beach which as amazing. girls typically dont wear shirts here which is cool, the water is salty. barcelona won a very big football game and there was a party we decided to go to. now take it that partys start at about midnight and get kicking at like 2 so we went to the town square where thousands of people were chanting lighting fireworks and flares. it was absoultely insayne. at like 3 we went back to the hostel where we drank beer and played ive never with and american group, some lesbians, germans, sweeds i think. long story short me, frazer, an american, and a chez girl ended up trying to see the sun rise on the beach and were up till just after 7am here. needless to say i missed breckfast again. and today when on a food hunt i ended up going downtown barcelona with the lesbians i met last night. we gotsome dece food ice cream, saw freaky street performers, and watched some weird political march for something i coulden't understand.

may 15

sitting in a train station waiting a few hours for our train to be here. Jet lag is still an issue, me and fraser were up at 5 and unable to sleep so we went for a walk and figured out we didnt see too many young people before because apparently they go out at 11 or 12 and go home between 5-7. its warm enough here that there is no need for a coat any time of the day. Looks like we will be in barcelona for a min of 5 days since thats how long we booked our next hostel for... hope the beach is damn nice this time of year.

wE made it to a small town near barcelona in an absoulutely beautiful hostel for the next 5 days at least. I had my doubts about spain till we got here, much more english and much more young spanish girls! Everyone told us that everything as so expensive here... i am yet to see it: beer is .49, a meal from 2-5, and we got 8l of water for 1.09 euro. Not quite breaking the bank quite yet.

may 14
so we finally made it here. 18 hours on planes. one plane ride where your too excite to sleep, the next where people who somehow got it in their head that taking a baby on a 8 hour plane ride was a good idea keep you awake, and the third where your so tired from lack of sleep and the supprisingly cheep beer they serve in the amsterdam airport that you just pass out. well we got in and were immediately swindled by a jerk cab driver that couldn't speak english. i dont know if spain just sucks at english, its just where we are, or they are playing dumb. well we got our hostel and our room is shared with some mexican chick (once again very little english). we decided to hit the hay early because tomorrow we want to get the heck out of here and sit on the beach with all the younger girls. i cant tell if graffitti is just everywhere or just were we are. we took a few adventure strolls around but dont have the energy or the time to go anywhere far. jet lag is playing its course and we shall all pass out and get to beaches tomorrow. fingers crossed.

side note, 1l of beer: .49 euro how awesome is that?

one week ill we leave today. work is almost done. tai is here. sorry im not good at th whole blog thing but im trying to learn b4 europe. the last week of work is really lame because you want to work hard and leave yur impression but dont know if anyone will notice or care,,, because your leaving. whatever i had a good run. tonight we cilled out and had a fer brew to celebrate tai being back in town illegally b4 he goes to japan. well that is all the effort i have for a blog. peace.

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