The train ride to Rome went fairly well. I actually managed to sleep a lot more than I was expecting! There was one little problem though. I had planned on arriving at the main train station in Rome, but on closer inspection, our tickets brought us to a different station in Rome. I really have […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Big Trip Day 02 – Venice and To Rome
Well, we’re in Rome, but there’s no WiFi, so the dry blogging continues! On Tuesday we had a full day in Venice. We got up early and munched on the remainder of yesterday’s supper. Once that was all gone, we decided to check out and head to the beach. If you’re not familiar with Venice […]
Grana Padano
Goodness, it’s been a bit since we’ve done a cheese review, hasn’t it? We just haven’t seen any new cheeses in Austria that were worth trying. That changed today in Venice when we were looking for some suppery foods at the grocery store. We came across these weird cheese cubes called Grana Padano (in Bocconconi). […]
Big Trip Day 01 – To Venice
Up to the minute update: It’s 6-9 and we’re in Rome. We finally got some Internet and are back-posting the dry blogging, but there’s a lot of re-writing to do, so it might take a bit! Greetings from Venice! Since we’re doing so much over the coming few weeks, we decided it would be best […]
Budapest – Day 2
The next morning we got up at 5:30AM and all quiet like snuck out of the room. Some of the other people had only gotten back at 4:45AM. We brushed our teeth and headed down to the tram. The plan was to take the tram part of the way, then walk up a street we […]
Budapest – Day 1
Yay, division of labor! I’m going to assume that Joni told you all about us getting to Budapest, Hungary in her last post. I’m writing this at the same time, so I have no idea what she wrote/is writing! Our full day in Budapest started out normally enough with some breakfast at the hostel. They […]
Bratislava – Day 2
On day 2 in Bratislava, we took a tour, which started at Hviezdoslavovo Square. Before the tour, we just chilled in the square a bit. This is where the tour group meets, at the statue of Hviezdoslav. He was a poet. There was a statue of an unpopular politician here, but one day they blew […]
Bratislava – Day 1
We’re back from Bratislava and Budapest and we need to blog about it before we leave for Venice tomorrow. We left early in the morning and got there around 1:00. The first thing we did was get checked into our hostel: Just kidding! Our hostel was completely normal. Bratislava is quite nice, although there is […]