Chewps Euro-Trip Pictures Thread! *Italy Done*
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Topic: Chewps Euro-Trip Pictures Thread! *Italy Done*
Posted By: choopie911
Subject: Chewps Euro-Trip Pictures Thread! *Italy Done*
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 8:14pm
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So how I'm going to do this, is post all my england pictures, then holland, and so on through my trip. This way it's not all one post and it's easier for me to manage. Also unfortunately these are just the pics I put on facebook, so as you can imagine, tons are missing from the 4300 I took. Maybe I'll put up different ones later
So heres: England We just went to London for Englands side of things, so here you go: In Victoria Station (I think it was Victoria) 
Outside 
Nelson Mandella attacking Big Ben 
Palace view from when I got on the london eye 
London Eye 
Picadilly Circus 
Trafalgar Square 
Buckingham Palace 
lol marching 
Dinner in London 
Tower Bridge 
St Pauls (huge place) 
Gumball sticker in rural london 
That crazy building 
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 8:33pm
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Sick pics. Ill be putting up new zealand ones soon enough. ------------- ///AMG What? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 8:45pm
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Hollands post time
Leaving England by ferry and headed to Amsterdam 
Me trying to sleep on the ferry 
Where we slept on the ferry 
Much happier on the train from the port to Amsterdam 
Standing in front of the station 
Canals 
At our first hostel, making my bed 
Sort of the rest of the room 
Some guys museum 
It was pouring one day, so this is a boat filling up with water outside our hostel 
Red Light District 
The Bulldog 
Beside the Doors 
They like bikes 
The front of the hostel at night 
We went here in the day 
But... 
Anyways, then we went to Haarlem 
Accordioning 
There was a museum/ gallery up this way, but it was closed (We had good luck with that) 
Graffiti (lots of those pics) 
This is inside a church. Each floor stone is a grave essentially... 
The ceiling 
The beach we found in Haarlem. Pretty windy. 
Next, on to Den Haag Our hostel had a deck onto a canal 
Luxury. There was a weird guy in this room that kept asking us about hockey 
Ahoy 
They like their canals 
Library in Den Haag 
Then we went to the Escher museum...which was having a royal hats show 
A particularly badass self portrait of Escher 
They had stylized chandaliers too 
Familiar? 
Old lady feeding some ducks 
All over downtown there are short pillars with art/ statues on them 
I wanted chocolate milk, so I bought this. Then I found out that Vla isn't milk...its pudding 
On a beach in Den Haag 
Water 
Dur hurr 
These seagulls were so loud and annoying. Theres a video on my youtube now 
And now on to Rotterdam Look at me, Im in Rotterdam 
THIS was our hostel... 
It was the worst place ever 
Cube house forest 
Checking them out 
Inside 
Another 
Their first skyscraper 
This is the sonneveld house. One of the coolest houses I've ever seen. It's super old, but was made to be ultra-modern, and still feels like it is today. 
Rotterdam is big on weird art. This is on the roof of a building (theres a bunch of them on various buildings) 
As I said.... 
Rotterdam war memorial 
Rotterdam has a huge park in the center, essentially the lungs of the city 
In that park is the EuroMast. You can massively overpay to go up it if you want 
The greatest thing ever. The pancake boat. You go around the Rotterdam harbour and eat all you can eat pancakes of various types with tons of topping varieties. TONS of screaming children though, we were the only people over 15 that werent there with children of our own. 
I got bacon pancakes 
Next post will be Germany! |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 9:23pm
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Are the amazing hilarious ones still forum inappropriate even if they are art? I feel those should be shown to everyone who has not seen. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 9:46pm
I don't think winged penises are forum safe |
jmac3 wrote:Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 9:48pm
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howed you like london? i went there alot when we were stationed at RAF Fairford. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 9:53pm
The more I think about it now, the more I like it. At first it was kind of underwhelming, since everyone always goes on and on about OMG ITS LONDON! and it's essentially like any other huge city, but I certainly did like the city. Cool landmarks and such and lots of history. But yeah, I'd love to go back, the city was nice, just very very pricey |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 9:59pm
| Is that an Enjoi shirt I see you wearing choop. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 10:45pm
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Sure isn't, but I can see why you'd think so. It's threadless.
Anyways, I'm doing homework and such now, I'll have Germany up sometime soonish |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 11:29pm
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either way that is a sick shirt.
I have 2 panadas humping on my shirt right now. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 7:58am
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^^lol
ya, london was expensive when i was there 7 years ago. i wouldent mind goin back. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 2:43pm
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 4:05pm
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Im jealous.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 5:33pm
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Now for the Germany post.
First up, Berlin Arriving in Berlin 
This is Berlin's death star tv tower. Good landmark to find your way around, and we were right near it :D 
lawl 
Old Cathedral. All the black parts you see is fire/ smoke damage from the war 
A War Memorial 
Checkpoint Charlie. 
Where the Berlin wall used to stand 
will do 
In front of a section of Berlin Wall 
Where Hitlers bunker was, now a parking lot 
Walking through the Jewish War Memorial 
So then we decided to go to a concentration camp...but we dont understand german and missed the "end of the line" announcement. We got stuck at the end for 10-15 minutes before we went back to the last station. 
At the Sachenhausen (sp) concentration camp. Tower A 
Spacious 
We walked through this...then got stuck outside near a mass grave site. I pushed the security button and nothing happened. Then about 5 minutes later the door on the right just swung open....weird 
A Memorial 
Where some ovens were. Not the kitchen. 
Another memorial in the center of the camp 
These stones are all numbered to mark where the barracks were, and which number they were. 
The death strip. Touch the gravel and be shot. Then theres barbed wire and more barbed wire (at least partially electrified), then patrols on the other side. 
Next up, Dusseldorf! They had weird lit up benches in a park thing near our hostel 
Our hostel 
Beer in vending machines? Yes please 
The beaudoir 
Germany likes towers 
Then we hit the promenade for a milkshake and some reading 
And me taking a picture in a church, that makes it look like I'm praying 
Next up, Cologne (or Koln) HUGE cathedral called The Dom 
Pictures can't convey how HUGE these things are. 
Priesty people. Oddly, speaking english (at least some) 
Inside the Dom 
Note the number of steps. No lift. 
Way up there 
This is the hostel we were at in Cologne. See the buildings out the window? Those are on the other side of the train tracks. So we are RIGHT beside the station. You could even hear the intercom announcements, as well as the trains. 
Delicious beer hall schnitzel 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 5:41pm
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chocolate museum 
They dipped wafers in this and we ate them. Awesome 
Then we had a picnic by the river 
Crackers and cheese. Small coke can 
Also, they have a sculpture park. Weird place 
Very Nightmare Before Christmas 
Watermelon Chocolate 
This is at a music bar called Electra. 
Goodbye goatee 
Teabagging 
Another idea of how huge those spires were 
Oktoberfest pictures are next |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 6:49pm
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great pictures, the Dom is incredible.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 7:39pm
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So after Cologne, we went to Frankfurt
Me looking out our hostel window 
To take this picture. You can see the train station there 
Cool section of town we found 
Awesome bratwurst and fries and such place we ate at 
NOW I'll get working on Oktoberfest pics |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 7:57pm
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Our hostel in Munich 
Inside 
So you get there on the metro, walk up the stairs, and enter this 
So we got some food, a meter of bratwurst on a baguette 
Do work 
So we hit the Haufbrau House tent. Biggest one at Oktoberfest 
It was packed, but we went outside and got some beers 
Saw some wenches 
Yay beer 
And huge pretzels 
And rode this 
And these 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 7:57pm
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Then we went to check out downtown Munich, and I spotted this 
Nice church. Super intracate inside of course 
Palace. Kind of interesting having an oldschool center, and glass wings 
Memorial 
Horsecops 
We were there on a national holiday, so NO-ONE was working. Thus, everyone was going to, or at Oktoberfest. It was POURING rain this day, but it was packed, as you can see by the subway 
We did find the famous Hofbrauhaus downtown though 
But good luck getting inside 
Then we hopped on a train overnight to Venice. This is during the night as we went through Austria. It was snowing 
Next stop, Venice |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 8:11pm
| what would you say was the best beer at oktober fest? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 8:19pm
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It was all really good, but Hofbrau was great. But yeah if you like lagers then it's all gravy.
Actually, the only place I wasn't a big fan of the beer was london, as they're more into darker, more bitter beers (London Pride and such) and nearly everywhere else is into lagers and whatnot, so pretty much everywhere had decent beer available. I saw becks gold all over the place, and I couldnt taste a difference from it to normal becks. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 8:52pm
| i am a fan of lagers, any chance hofbrau is imported anywhere in north america that you know of? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 8:55pm
| I haven't looked actually, and their wiki doesn't really provide much info about their beer. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 9:11pm
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http://beergeek.stores.yahoo.net/homa50.html if that is in fact the beer, then i am very glad my state is on the list of ones that they will ship it to...only problem with the site (for me) you have to be 21 to order and sign for it... |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 9:58pm
Thats their logo/ brand, but I don't know if thats the brew they sell at Oktoberfest. Guess you'll have to go and find out for yourself 
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 10 February 2009 at 10:57pm
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What would you say was the best strain in Amsterdam?
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 12:26am
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There is a Hofbrau house near me (first one in the U.S.) and they sell kegs of their beer
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Posted By: IMPULS3.
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 12:37am
Beer in vending machines... 
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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 12:38pm
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Yeah the continent is pretty good, Looks like you saw alot of the good stuff.
London is definitely overpriced my dad lives there and its a pain everytime i want to go out when im down. Id say start eurotrips in glasgow or maybe the highlands if your into that stuff.
After the summer ill whack a few pics of my meditaranian (sp) and grann cann adventures up. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 12:44pm
I'm hardly done with the pics, that's just 3 of 6 countries so far. Also yeah, we were supposed to go to edinburgh before heading to Holland, but the wife booked the wrong day for the bus, so it didn't work out. Oh wells |
Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 12:50pm
| Thats insane... Must visit europe |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 12:57pm
I stay about an hour from edinburgh, But if you want a night on the town i would definitely recommend hitting Glasgow for a night. It's easy enough to get a train or bus over. if you gimme a shout ill come out and grab a pint  and show you the sites. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 1:03pm
| If only I could afford to travel right now. I'd already be at an all inclusive |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 1:10pm
I'm going to Perth, Oban, and Glasgow this summer. I'm going to try to make it to Edinburgh too. I don't think I'll be able to make it across to any other countries though, unfortunately. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 1:13pm
Why not? |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 1:41pm
I'll be in Perth on 8/9, Glasgow 8/15, and Oban 8/27. Unless I can work it out, the last one will have to be cut as school starts on 8/24 for me (Just realized this). That's already 3 weeks, I would have to travel around during the week, which I don't really care to do. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 1:49pm
| Well...go earlier. |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 2:54pm
| Chewp, I went to that Hofbrauhous in Munchen in 2004. Ate some huge pretzels and drank beer. did you get to go inside? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 3:25pm
| The actual Hofbrauhaus? Since its the Disneyland of beer halls, it was WAY too busy, so we didn't get in. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 3:32pm
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I can't tell you how badly I want to see the Koelner Dom Cathedral... (Cologne Cathedral) ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 8:01pm
Like i said mate gimme a shout and ill take you out for a night in the glesga toon  As long as your 18+ or have fake id you'll have a grand time, You over for business or pleasure?... |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 10:05pm
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Oh sure deny us of the consumption photo at the "coffee shop". Did you bring home a menu?
How was the sausage fest?
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 10:11pm
The "menus" you're thinking of are under glass at the counter almost every time. The menus out on tables are for food and drink. And I'll see what I can do |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 10:15pm
| hrmm. I've had friends bring menu's home before. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 10:37pm
Probably the most forum appropriate
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 10:39pm
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SMOKE
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 11 February 2009 at 11:31pm
Pipe band competitions... |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 1:48am
| lol skinflute |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 6:36pm
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Okay I'm calling shenny poo poo's on the whole europe trip. That's a filtered Camel and you're at the corner bar 2 blocks from your house. Darn nice photochoop job on the rest of the pics
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 6:53pm
| common fro torque one for the team!!! |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 7:05pm
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You ok there Lightning bolt?
Anyways So next up is Venice Got in around 6am and had to kill time at the station till things actually opened and we could find where we were staying. In front of the station 
Where we stayed. We had our own little trailer thing, which was actually quite nice. 
Downtown 
Fresh fruit in a market. So tasty 
Venitian masquerade masks 
Police boat 
On the grand canal 
And now in St. Marco's square (where this years flooding pictures were from) 
Headed back down the canal at sunset. 
On the train out of Venice 
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 7:13pm
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Awesome boat.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 7:26pm
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Next we went to Naples which is near Pompeii so we'll be going there too. Woo hoo.
So, first dinner in Naples, the birthplace of pizza, was a huge awesome pizza. It was 4 euros ($6-ish) 
THIS is where knockoffs come from. It was a market in front of our hostel every day. It sells nothing but knockoff shoes, clothes, cds/dvds, phones, watches, belts, etc. The streets were LINED with people with blankets out on the ground, covered in purses and belts and sunglasses for sale. Naples was a dodgy place, you get warned a lot to keep an eye on your stuff, as pickpocketing is a huge problem there. 
So then we went to Pompeii. 
Check out them ruins 
This fellow was encased in ash and fire. Then they were able to make a cast of the hollow space his body left behind. 
Complete with original bones 
Checkin it out 
Another person 
Streets 
You can still see how the walls were painted in a lot of places 
Lion fights anyone? 
Then we went to the Naples Archeological Museum 
Yeah! 
Model of Pompeii 
Guy taking some pictures? 
Back downtown 
A tiny sample of the purses 
We went in this church, where a wedding was about to start (or had just finished) 
Headed for the water 
We went in a lame castle on the water and checked it ou 
It was pretty out at least 
The castle 
Kids playing soccer 
Wild cat (saw several) 
Headed to the top of another castle 
That castle 
Another awesome pizza dinner. Also about 5 euros. 
Sleeping on the way to Rome 
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 7:58pm
| just playin' man. Looks like you had a great time. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 8:04pm
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Ive always wanted to go to Italy.
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 12 February 2009 at 8:10pm
| I've always wanted to be choop. want want want.... |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 14 February 2009 at 2:04am
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I always forget the exchange rate - how much is $6CDN in real, non-monopoly, dollars? I'm guessing that huge pizza wold have cost a few cents in real, 'Merican dollars? Seriously though, some of those pictures were amazing. If you put a huge "Keith Saylor" watermarks on them, you probably could sell them as postcards for lots of money. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 14 February 2009 at 4:50am
At 4 euros that first naples pizza would have run you $5 USD. And I have thought about that. A lot of our idle whatever shots are better than most of the post cards I've seen. As I mentioned before, I took 4300 pictures, theres bound to be some good ones |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 February 2009 at 11:06pm
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So now heres Rome
Lots of painters and crap in this square 
The Pantheon 
Magical Trevi Fountain 
All over Rome they have water spouts all over the place. There's a hole in the top of them, so you can drink from them like a water fountain if you cover the bottom. 
Ruins 
Then we went inside. They have a section of floor rebuilt as a demo too. 
Next we went on a Vatican tour 
More stuff in there than you could EVER look at 
This fellow used to be missing his upper arm 
This is made of purple marble. Purple marble is worth $20,000 USD per cubic inch. 
More art 
Being jesus in St. Peters Basilica 
Pictures can't actually show the size of this place. Massive 
Out front 
That night we walked to a free MTV Italia concert that was going on nearby. Got to see John Legend and The Cure for free 
We got even closer than this too 
Anywho, next up is florence |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 February 2009 at 11:15pm
Ahhh, arriving in Florence
Where The David is. Thankfully a super short line when we were there. 
Mediocre picture of a huge awesome church deal 
Which of course we climbed 
Nice view 
We were walking around one evening and heard drum music. These folks were marching around in the streets, not sure why. 
At one of our favourite pubs of the whole trip, Joshua Tree Pub in Florence. Got PACKED in there since they had great happy hours too 
So it's just a short hop skip and jump over to Pisa from Florence, and we heard it wasn't worth staying the night there, so we headed over there next. Lots of people trying to sell cheap crap to you there too. 
It's a good time taking pictures of people posing with the tower, but from the wrong angle 
And this dude was on rollerskates, and had money in his watering can. 
So that ends Italy. Next we went to Southern France before dipping down into Spain, then back up to Paris as our last stop, so southern france is next. |
Posted By: IMPULS3.
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 12:07am
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Did you happen to go to Normandy?
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 12:08am
| Nope, not on this trip. Discussed it but it wasn't in the cards |
Posted By: IMPULS3.
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 12:09am
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 12:13am
| anyone else for pulling an oceans 14 on that purple marble table? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 12:15am
| Oh theres more than just that table made of purple marble. They have a lot of pricey pricey things there. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 9:38am
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Did you have this all planed out before you went over there...Where you were going to stay certain nights, what you were going to see?
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:07pm
Yeah, well seeing as how 14 people are probably needed to move it a decent pace I don't think it's possible. I'm down if we can have a cop on the inside. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:20pm
| I'd be down for an Ocean's 14, although I fail at heavy lifting. I'll create a distraction though. Maybe I'll dress up in a Satan costume. That would get some looks. Or stabs. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:26pm
We had some of it planned, then planned the rest as we went. We knew where we were starting and finishing, and which countries we wanted to try to get to. We tried to have probably.....2 cities ahead of us booked. Overall it wasn't really an issue, but there were a few times we had to change plans because we were aiming for a certain city that there was just NO vacancy for some reason. We knew for the most part which majors we wanted to see (venice, florence, barcelona, etc) and picked others to go with them according to recommendations, what the city had to offer, location, etc. And I chose Valencia in spain, which you'll see in a bit, as my sister had gone there when she was travelling with a friend and it looked awesome, so I decided I'd have to go check it out. I'm really glad I did, it was an awesome city, really nice pace/ things to do, and a topless beach. |