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.

so where i left off. that day we decided to see the acropolis which was very sweet to see. then we basically chilled out that night. yesterday we saw parliament and many other cool things around athens. our days cant ever be too long since it is 37 above and about as humid and sunny as you can imagine. it drains a lot out of you. so today we are going to take it easy, do a little shopping, we need to buy canadian flags so we can represent on july 1st. and tomorrow we have a few more sights to see (like old town) before we start the very long journey to Budapest and Vienna with a night train. im guessing it will take 2 or so days to get there. other then that nothing terribly exciting is happening. greese is an amazing place and athens is huge. when you at the top of the acropolis you can see so far and all the buildings are about 4 or 5 stories with no sky scrapers or downtown you can point out.

Athens

well i guess it would be yesterday we figured out that the bus to athens only goes every second night. so we either had to leave and eat in 2 hours or wait 2 days. in a 2v1 vote we decided to take the night bus cause we still have soooo much to see and we are now on a time budget since we are determined to see linkin park play, more details to come. so after dinner we had a 11 hour overnight buss ride to athens, it was actually quite relaxing. we got here just before 9 and relised we cant check in till 12 so we went adventuring to every noted building on the map within walking distance. we say the uni here and some pretty cool things but our hostel is not in the cool area of greese, like the area you see in all the pictures. so were going to eat then metro to see something really cool, havent decided which we want to do today yet.

yesterday we were so tired from the booze cruze still that we slept and read on the balcony most of the day. until the night... toga party every saturday night and it was damn wild. they had a giant bucket of ouzo (very similar to sambuca) and they would just drop shots down your throat. the supper was excellent too like every night. but yea we indulged a little... wild wild night. dancing and plate smashing, they literally broke plates over your head randomly. today we went on a quad adventure. got horribly lost, went offroading then magically ended up right where we wanted too. it was a fun experience driving here, signs and lanes mean nothing. if you dont think you can make a gap, you try anyways. bigger cars do what they want when they want and small cars and bikes weave everywhere.my burn will never go away with all this sun but this could be our last good beach so its all worth it.

best day ever

im pretty sure yesterday was the best day ever. josh and i woke up early to be on the booze cruze. unfortunately fraser was feeling ill and stayed in. the cruse fir about 50-60 people onto a med sized pink boat (everything is pink at the pink palace). its pretty packed and the first order of business is everyone has to shotgun a beer. after that we all kinda just mingled till we got to the cliff. we of course go there first so people arnt drunk. it was a 17m high cliff, fun as crap to jump off of but the climb up was scary as crapp and i cut my foot on the sharp rocks. i just regular jumped but josh decided to try a double front flip, it went well till he landed on his head haha, dont worry he was fine. another thing is that if you jumped naked dudes get 2 free beer and girls got like 5-10. we drove all the way to a private beach. like so private that you cannot see any signs of people other then us. we went to a bat cave after but we wernt allowed to swim in because it was too wavy and dangerous. the ride back was the most wild things i have ever seen on a boat. a full on cramped party where girls bathing suits were certainly not required and whipped cream was everywhere. it is safe to say that the only proper way to exit a boat like that is with a backflip into the water.amazingly fun but six hours in the sun put me and josh out until supper. it goes every two days so we are going to try it again sunday maybe. im going to try to put a pic of the cliff we jumped off of here, its not th best pic but its an experiment

so its been wayyyyyy too long since ive written in this. ill have to go back to rome. so sunday we went to see the vatican and we figured out the hard way that the vatican is closed at 2 on sundays, we thought it was the perfect day to go. we adventured rome and say some real cool stuff that i forget the name of but when you see the pictures you'll like it. after that we spent an entire day on trains and buses to get to bari to take a 9-10 hour boat ride to corfu. which was wonderful, we got a nice piece of floor to sleep on. e are staying at a place called the pink palace. its crazy here first theng they made us do is take a shot of osiu, at 8 in the morning. and its pretty much an all day and night party, happy hour is from 6-11. tomorrow we are going on the booze cruse which is getting on a huge boat to go cliff jumping and into bat caves and all that cool stuff. were going to rent quads and get lost in th island of corfu and probably see some cool stuff im sure. they give us hot breakfast and a three course meal for supper, actual food is so amazing, weve been eating crap take out food and what we can scrounge up from supermarkets. this is our last week with beaches so i plan on getting as much sun as possible