TravelStream™ news feed for member julienrl on TravelPod's free travel blogs service http://www.travelpod.com/syndication/rss/julienrl en-us Copyright ©2010 TravelPod.com Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:56:56 -0500 http://www.travelpod.com http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/julienrl/europe_2006/1162858200/tpod.html http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/julienrl/europe_2006/1162858200/tpod.html#comments Travel Blogs http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/julienrl/europe_2006/1162858200/tpod.html Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:56:56 -0500 Nicolas Larabie, a friend since we are 4, and I am going to travel around Europe with no particular plan and unlimited train access. Let the adventure begin! Feel free to post comments.

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Paris, France

I leave for paris on the 5th and sleep on the airport floor, the next morning I hop on the plane and leave this trip prematurely, I really wish I had an extra year to keep going along with the money to do so, maybe in an other lifetime because as much as I still have alot to see, my next destinations will most likely be the US, Canada, South America, the Pacific Islands, Asia or the middle east(altho that one might wait a bit), wichever I get a chance to go to next. Mayble I'l get to do them all at once from a sailboat while working off my laptop, who knows, so untill my next adventure begins, I would like to thank everyone who made this trip what it was. Now back to a different life, a world away, to study and work.

Special thanks to:
my parents, Nicolas Larabie, Emily and Alex (the 2 newyorkers), Marie-Christine, Will and Zoe, Martin from Roslaire (once again, I feel really bad for loosing your adress, I really wish I could send you postcards. I hope you stumble across this message one day.), Mora, Marisa and Marie-Eve.
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Leiden, Netherlands

I spend a fiew days in Leiden, where I have not ben able to get a job, I have no money left so I start using the money my parents had given me before the trip in case I needed any. I spend the 3 days siting around recovering from what had hapened, and of course, meeting great people. Of wich a nice quebequer (Marie-Christine) and a deaf girl(Marisa). I end up spending a night pertending I was deaf too after people mistook me for a deaf person too because I had taken too long to answer a question, we had a blast and I learnt a great deal of sign language that night.
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Louven La Neuve, Belgium

I spend 2 nights at Louven La Neuve sleeping on Marie-Christine's couch (merci encore, c'etai vraiment cool de ta part de m'inviter comme ca) and spent 2 days visiting the nice university town and drinking beers I had not tried yet. I also bought my mother's chocolate (wich I had actually bought before but I lost it on a train along with my nalgene and a train ticket grrrr...).
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Marseilles, France

I go to Marseilles and visit at night, I was also lucky enough to find a cheap hotel (20 euros per night for a single room with shared toilet). I went to see a french comedy "Prete moi ta main" definately worth it! the next morning I have a tough decision, do I go back to brussels to visit Marie-Christine or do I stay in suthern france and visit avignon and Nice using Marseilles as my base camp... I go to the bathroom and the instant I open the bathroom door, it is decided. Back to belgium I go. They had a turkish toilet, but a real one, all you had was a bucket of water and a hole... I ended up riping up pages of my journal.
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Brussels, Belgium

I spend a fiew days in bruxels at the Vangoh youth hostel (really cheap and prety nice). on the 31st I visit Brugge, a breathtaking town DEFINATELY worth going to, with Kiara a nice Italian I met the night before.

On the first I walk around with Zoe and Will, 2 americans and we go to the Atomium. Word of advice, take the tram there, look at it and leave. Do NOT go in it, total waste of money, you can only go in 4 of the spheres and it is ridiculous. The first sphere has a plaque of why the atomium was built (the 1958 expo to boost the economy), the second one has a clip of the atomium being built, the third one has barbie dolls dressed in suits that people wore in 1958(at this point I am swearing and wondering why the heck I paid 6 euros for this) and last but not least, the fourth bubble has an ice cream bar... wow, what a dissapointment and furthermore, what a waste. That night we spend 20 euros collectively to buy food and end up feeding 12 people with it, what a feast, I have a 1L Jupiler for 1.7$ and after we go buy ourselves an other beer or two (the fact taht they were Bush's doesint help) and then Will and I split a 2L bottle of wine playing drinking chess and some other game that I invented that shal remain nameless. We then proceded to convincing everyone we talked to that we had just finished filming a reality tv show called "Lord of the fly" but that we were still on network contract and that we only got paid after the show had aired so we had to keep quiet. I made sure to keep people hooked by throwing in random comments such as "will, if you dont want to wake up with a scropion in your sleeping bag again, cut it out!". hehe... what a night.
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Leiden, Netherlands

on the 24th we leave for sevile but decide we will keep going to the port city to get to morocco, but all hell breaks loose and we spend the next three days heading towards paris where nick and I part ways, he goes back home and I keep going towards Leiden near Amsterdams, in the hopes that I can work at the flying pig in exchange fo a bed and food. I only get there late on the 27th.
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Barcelona, Spain

19- we leave rome to go to the port of civitavecchia (however you say that) to go to barcelona and total coincidence, I never thought this would hapen to me on my trip but I meet people I had met weeks before. There sitting on the benches, waiting for the same boat as us are the 2 newyorkers!! WOOT!

20-the 19 hour cross ends up taking 26 hours (but at least I am not sick this time, unlike the boat from santorini to athens... stupid fast food). We stay at a youth hostel where I meet a nice Israeli girl, we go to the kitchen to have a beer and nick and the newyorkers dissapear so off I go with her to some outdors bar she heard of. When we get there we see that the reception is as a matter of fact outside, but the actual bar is not.. its in a FREAKING CAVE!!!! so I wind up listening to loud techno music all night in a cave rave and get back to my bed at 830 am.

21- we find a camping right next to the beach, its soooooo warm here, this is great. we visit barcelona and lay on the beach for the next 3 days.
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Rome, Italy

oct.16- YAY! back in rome, my favorite city! we find the camping afer which we visit the coloseum and adjascent ruins, I get to see Julius Cesar's temple and where he was stabed once more along with all the great historical monuments that are in that small area. Wonderfull! We celebrate my birthday by eating a 4 course meal across the street from the colosseum where we see the sun set and night lights come on. We spend almost 5 hours eating there.

17- We walk around and finally decide to buy a little burner, suprisingly it only costs 15 euros and the fuel is 2 euros per can at the camping. Why did we not do this earlier? Finally we will be able to heat up food, less bread for me from now on!

18- We visit teh vatican and I see teh pope at about 5m from me.
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Napoli, Italy

We spent 2 days heading back towards bari going through Athens and Patras again. Once back in italy we head over to Napoli and take a metro to Pompei. We were a bit worried that we would not find anywhere to sleep be as we steped out of the city train, the first ting we saw was a camping. There we met 2 great newyorkers, one german and a torontonian.

On the 14th the 2 newyorkers and teh torontonian go off to climb mount vesuvious the hard way and we visit pompei.

On the 15th we visit mount vesuvius the easy way, with a bus! but the german girl is no longer part of our group. That night we headed off to Rome, we got there fairly late and found a bed and breakfast which we understood was 14 euros each, once there we realised he meant 40... his english was pretty bad, in fact he couldint speak english, oh well, too late to do anything else now, 80 euros down the drain. :S
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Santorini, Greece

We spent the 8th 9th and 10th on santorini where we got an awesome hotel room; 2 beds, shower, toilet(that has no suction) tv and fridge for 14 euros per night. It was crazy, the regular, in season fare, was of 60-80 euros per night. We also rented a quad and went around the island. The beaches were pretty nice altho the sand was mostly rocky but if you went to the far right of the main beach it became very soft, and there was no one there because it was past the bars and restaurants.
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