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[14 Mar 2006|05:38pm] |
I've been extremely busy for the last couple of months with getting things straight with my school (I've graduated, apparently one of the profs made a mistake marking my exam.),my career search, eventually finding a job and working hard to get up to speed. I've taken a day off from work today since I'm sick and what better way to make more use of my time than to work on and hopefully finish this soon:
Scroll down to day 30: rome 3a, 3b - Vatican City, Spanish Steps, and Trevi Fountain.
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[21 Oct 2005|07:59pm] |
It's been a long while but I finally finished Day 19: My second day in Rome where I took so many pictures that it takes 3 pages to show them all.
Coming up on Day 20: Vatican City, Vatican Museum(Sistine Chapel), Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps.
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[16 Jul 2005|11:38pm] |
finished day 15: bratislava/vienna 2 .
I have a lot of things going on lately (mostly positive) so it might take a long time between each update, but I do hope to finish this by the end of next month as some of the entries I'm converting from paper entries, then adding pictures on.
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[13 Jun 2005|01:54am] |
Vienna 1 complete.
Next entry...Bratislava - the Prague without the crazy bustle.
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[02 Jun 2005|05:55pm] |
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finished days 11 and 12 in Prague. More pictures of the city to follow.
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| notes: back home! |
[26 May 2005|09:55pm] |
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I'm back home in Mississauga now. It's been an incredible trip. Will fill in all the gaps to the journal in the next few weeks.
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| day 22: paris->philadelphia->toronto |
[25 May 2005|10:45am] |
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(from paper entries)
I'm on US Airways Flight 27 and we're landing at the Philly Airport in about an hour or so, where I will take another regional flight to Toronto back home.
This morning wasn't much special. Arrived at Paris-Bercy, then took the Metro and the RER to the airport.
I guess this concludes my trip. It's been real good. I walked alot, saw alot, and learned alot. I've fulfilled one of my life's dreams and mostly had a good time. However, I am exhausted from all the travelling, I've developed a nasty cough and I'm ready to go home, have some good, gourmet home-cooked food instead of fast food or pizza all the time, take off that damn bracelet-wallet thing, and unfortunately deal with the reality that awaits me back at home.
I'll try to finish the missing entries and upload pictures when I get the chance, but that depends how soon I can get the crap I have waiting for me back home under control.
We're landing...
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| thoughts on rome |
[24 May 2005|10:00pm] |
(from paper entries)
Maybe I went to the wrong areas of town, but Rome is my least favourite city on this trip. The metro doesn't take you everywhere you want to go, it stinks, it's super-crowded, the poles you grab onto are nasty, and every train is entirely ghetto-fied with graffiti. Reading the bus/tram map is like trying to solve a puzzle. Asking a local about how to get somewhere was even more useful. The buses are also super crowded and nauseating.
The roads are incredibly chaotic. Most cross walks do not have traffic light assist which means that you have to wait until a car is just far enough away to stop for you, then you step onto the sidewalk to force them to stop.
The chaos is mind-boggling. Cars, buses, vespas, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians all try to squeeze into each and every piece of road they can get their hands on, especially at the roundabouts.
The city is dirty in general. It kind of reminds me of parts of downtown Toronto. Graffiti can be found everywhere in Rome, even in the picturesque Trastevere (see the glimpse of graffiti below this building):
I'm wondering if they simply never found the money to clean it up, or they tried cleaning it up but someone kept doing it again?
However, like the rest of the country, Rome also has its share of beautiful women everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. Beautiful women aren't just the pretty girls you see on the street; they are also police officers, bus drivers, and pizzeria girls. I think I have to start learning Italian...
Also, again like the rest of Italy, Gelati. It's everywhere and it's addictive. Gelato is so easy to get addicted to. These are the saving graces of Rome..
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| day 21: rome 4 |
[24 May 2005|09:00pm] |
(From paper entries and memory)
This morning I finally found someone to give my bonus a_schau architecture museum ticket to-this really pretty Dutch girl I met at breakfast. But I screwed up: I told her that it was in Berlin when it was really in Vienna, and I wasn't sure if it'd work when she gets there - I knew for sure it'd work the day after the original ticket was issued, but not sure about afterwards. I guess they spoke German both in Berlin and Vienna so that's how I screwed the two cities up. Oh well, it was a nice ice-breaker to get to talking with her and I'm sure she'd figure it out.
Our first stop today was the ancient Roman baths south of Circo Massimo, the Terme di Caracalla. When we got there we considered the 6 euro price, plus the fact that we're seeing more ruins when we've already seen an entire day of ruins at the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill. We decided to leave. This is a shot with the baths behind us.
Because it was so hot out we decided to catch a random bus instead of walking back 10 mins to the metro station. It got us here, near Pyramide station:
( tooling around in the rrrroma )
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| day 20: rome 3b |
[23 May 2005|10:21pm] |
We went around the walls of the Vatican City to the Vatican Museum/Sistine Chapel. Because it was lunch time the line went quick-for us it was 30 mins. I've heard stories of people lining up for hours to get in.
Inside:
( Read more... )
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| day 20: vatican city, rome 3a |
[23 May 2005|09:51pm] |
(The last few months have been crazy busy, but today I got sick and took a day off from work. Now I can work on this. I did not write a paper journal for this date, so I'm going to write what I can remember. Yeah less impressive, I know.)
After having some cornettos (what we call croissant in North America) we took the nasty Rome metro out to Ottaviano San Pietro Station for Vatican City. St. Peter's Square was maybe a 8 minute walk down Via Ottaviano to St. Peter's Square. We joined the line to enter St. Peter's Basilica which, while long, proceeded faster than I expected.
Swiss Guards-who look more like clowns than soldiers. To become one you must be Swiss, Catholic, single(?), and good looking (no joke!)
More shots:
An attractive female tour guide with an English accent offered us a tour of the basilica for free (I think it was paid for by the Vatican?) so we followed her.
( Go Inside! )
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| notes |
[23 May 2005|07:43pm] |
updated day 17: florence and day 10: prague.. trying to upload pics from berlin now and seeing how it goes..
God bless this 1e/hour internet place..
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