//Europa 2006//

Amazon is a great site.
Not only did I get the bourne identity for $1.25 for a hardback, but also found rick Steve's' German phrase book for $4.

On account of the lack of snow, Caleb and I did meet at port city. What came of it is a new plan to take a day and hike Italy's Cinque Terre. 5 car less towns just south of Genga. These are the classic Italian coastal towns that you would see in postcards and stuff.

Oh, it's almost (need to check some things like lodging) definite that we will go to Spain. At least for a day.

--gb

Here is the current itinerary, as of 5.22.2006. Much thanks to James for doing the initial typing. As we make changes I'll be sure to update as necessary.

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Tuesday, June 6 > Flight out of Asheville to Atlanta to Dublin on Delta

Wednesday, June 7 > Arrive in Ireland in the early morning hours. Visit Hyltons, take train to Galway for two nights.

Friday, June 9>Stay at Hyltons in Dublin

Monday, June 12>Flight from Dublin to London via Ryanair.

Tuesday, June 13 > London, continued. We’ll plan our upcoming routes and get ready for the next day’s journey to the European mainland. Again, we’ll be staying in the hostel.

Wednesday, June 14 > We’ll take the bus from London to Dover (the place with the cliffs), on the channel. It’s about an hour and a half ride. From there we’ll hop on a ferry to Calais, France. Night in Bruges.

Thursday, June 15 > Trains to Arnhem where we stay the night.

Friday, June 16 > We’ll wake up in Arnhem, Netherlands. We’ll survey the Dutch landscape, and sample the selection of waffles. We’ll do a little more planning, and then sleep the night again with Caleb’s friends.

Saturday, June 17 > Because of the Worl Cup, lodging was scarce so we will be going straight to Caleb's other friends in Aschaffenburg east of Frankfurt.

Monday, June 19 > We’ll ride another train from Frankfurt down to Interlaken where we will stay the night at a hostle

Tuesday, June 20 > Today we will head up into the mountains to Gimmelwald.

Friday, June 24 > Salzburg, Austria. We’ll hop a bus for an 18 km bus ride to Berchtesgaden, Germany, just across the border. Today is Eagle’s Nest day. Today, will probably be one of the best days of the trip. We’ll return to Salzburg that evening for another night in the same hostel.

Sunday, June 27 > We’ll float down to Venice Italy. We’ll get dropped off at the station, and stroll the streets to our hostel. Perhaps we’ll have dinner at St. Marks.

Monday, June 28 > Venice, Italy. We’ll see the sights and soak it up. We’ll spend another night in the same hostel.

Tuesday, June 29 > We’ll wake up in Venice, and see a few more sights. In the mid to late afternoon, we’ll hop on the train to Rome. If we want to we’ll survey some of the Italian countryside.

Friday, June 30 > Today we’ll be in Rome. We’ll see all the sights, Vatican, Coliseum, and more. We’ll park ourselves in a previously planned hostel. It will be most excellent.

Saturday, July 1 > Rome, again. Everything that we wanted to do yesterday, but we didn’t get to, we’ll do today. Hopefully we can squeeze some time in for pizza and pasta, and have an audience with the pope. We’ll hostel it up once again.

Sunday, July 2 > Today, we wake in Rome, and catch the train to Florence. Once in Florence, we’ll explore whatever we want to see, and we’ll either camp in the nearby countryside or will stay in a hostel.

Monday, July 3 > Today, we’ll take the short trains through the Italian countryside, heading towards Nice, France. There will be no set plan, and we’ll get off and see what ever looks interesting. We’ll plan on camping tonight, if the weather is good. Staying at the Cinque Terre.

Thursday, July 6 > Train to Nice, staying there.

Sunday, July 9 > Paris,Today we’ll have church in some cathedral, and keep on exploring France. Perhaps we’ll visit an art gallery or scale the Eiffel. Perhaps the Arc, or the plaza. Whatever happens, it’ll be great. We’ll stay in the same hostel.

Thursday, July 13 > Camping in Normandy.

Monday, July 17 > Train back to Belgium with an evening flight to Dublin.

Thursday, July 20 > Flight back to the states.

Well I guess this will be a good way to share pictures with the rest of you back here at home. The upload was fast and the image is a good size. You should be hearing more from me later then. Goodnight. 

Flight Out - Copyright Graham Bruns 

OK people. I have heard rumors of being able to post pictures to blog spot. If these prove to be true you will see in mere moments.

On other thoughts... This is the official blog of myself and the rest of the tomahawk crew before and during our trip to Europe this summer. Since there are so many of you all, there is no way we can all write and call all of you. So this is the best alternative. We can still tell you what we are doing, you can either read it or not. It passes on the responsibility to you the reader on weather or not you want to be kept up to date.

So I welcome you, the reader, and I will now try to upload some pictures. If this works you will hear more from this blog, if not then you will probably not.

thank you.
--gb