Travelling

[Turin Turambar]

  On 9/20/2011 at 11:14 PM, Rasheta Ardashir said:

  On 9/20/2011 at 8:04 PM, Talya said:

I've been to the top of Mount Olympus...well nearly the top, the Greeks wouldn't let us go to the very top as it was raining really hard and the path had become dangerous, but I wasn't that far off. One day I will go back and get to the top and say hi to Zeus and his cronies!

 

*has much jealousy* I want to do that!

 

Let's see I've been up and down the west coast of the US, and to Germany, France, and the Czech Republic. Germany was fun till one of the exchange boys hooked up with my host sister. THEN it got teenage and emo. *big sigh* Prague is beautiful once you get into the old town and up toward the castle. France is...well full of French, I always heard people in France were rude and they didn't let me down...course in there defense the Americans with me at the time were being rude as well. So I guess it worked out both ways. Although everyone was nice to me, but I think that had more to do with the fact I wasn't being rude to everyone else. I used German more then English when I was out and about and most people spoke German everywhere I was except in Prague, but they mostly speak English there so it was no big.

The Ugly Americans v. the Rude French tonight on Deathmatch... Prague, I guess old Prague is always described as beautiful. I would defintely like to add that to the want to see list.

[Rasheta Ardashir]

Old Prague is really pretty though, there street lamps look like the one in Narnia. *g* I have pictures because I couldn't resist.

 

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The Ugly Americans v. the Rude French tonight on Deathmatch...

 

*ggls* That would be hilarious on many levels.

[Turin Turambar]

Nice. I would love to see that. The thing I love most about visiting Europe is the old archetechure. Then the History. Then the museums. Then the food. Oh, the people ar in there somewhere(efen the French)

 

And in this corner for the Ugly Americans...Frat Boy!

[dannyd]

Someday i hope to go to italy. Not sure why but somehting about the country fascinates me.Also a trip to Greece would be awesome

[Turin Turambar]

Never been to Greece. I think it would be cool. I have been to Italy. My ship had port visits in Naples and I took a trip to Venice once. Venice is a gorgeous city. It feels like your in a story. There are a ton of pigeons though.

[Turin Turambar]

AH, do you have a place you realy would like to visit?

[Talya]

Been to Greece many times...visited the Acropolis about 4 times...Knossos 2 times, King Philips tomb (Alexander's Dad) and also many of the Islands...which are idyllic...I really love the history of the place, so I think that draws me back...and Greek dancing in a Taverna is great fun!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

... i been to jersey for tax free shopping a couple times.

[Deak]

I was lucky enough to do two study abroads while I was in college. The first was my sophomore year I took a coral reef ecology class during the month of January (my school has a Jan-term) and we went to Honduras for scuba diving for two weeks. We did about 30 dives in two week.

 

The 2nd was a summer program called The British Studies at Oxford. I went to Oxford University in England and took a class on Tolkien (!!1!) and the History of British Science from Victorian era to modern.

 

Probably the best summer of my college life.

[Turin Turambar]

Studying Tolkien at Oxford is awesome. Added perk being getting to be there in summer.

[Niniel]

  On 9/27/2011 at 10:14 PM, cindy said:

... i been to jersey for tax free shopping a couple times.

 

I have never been to Jersey for tax free shopping...

 

  On 9/28/2011 at 2:30 PM, Deak said:

I was lucky enough to do two study abroads while I was in college. The first was my sophomore year I took a coral reef ecology class during the month of January (my school has a Jan-term) and we went to Honduras for scuba diving for two weeks. We did about 30 dives in two week.

 

The 2nd was a summer program called The British Studies at Oxford. I went to Oxford University in England and took a class on Tolkien (!!1!) and the History of British Science from Victorian era to modern.

 

Probably the best summer of my college life.

 

I´m jealous. I want to study Tolkien at Oxford University!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i went to college in binghamton and never escaped the vortex of doom again; once you get there, you can't get farther than 30 miles away. it's like the way rt 13 in ithaca changes every time you drive it.

 

rod serling was from binghamton. it's very twilight zone.

[Turin Turambar]

Binghamton is new york right? like southern and kinda east? twilight zone=spooky

[Netbattler11]

I went to spain for world youth day this summer. That was pretty awesome.

[Turin Turambar]

Where in Spain. I never got on the mainland of Spain. Only on the island of Mallorca.

[Netbattler11]

Madrid. It was pretty cool.

[Turin Turambar]

I would love to have seen Madrid. My ship was supposed to go to Barcelona (Ithink) but there was some terrorist thing so we ended up in Mallorca. Had a great time tho.

[Leelou]

Ok, I've traveled all up and down the east coast of the US, to Indianapolis, Chicago, LA and Oahu. I've been to Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and other small towns in Spain. I've been to the Black Forest and surrounding areas in Germany. I went to Geneva and up in the Alps and to the Jungfraujoch railway station. I went to Paris and a few of the surrounding towns in France.

 

I have got to say I liked Geneva and Barcelona the best with Germany right behind. I'm planning some future trips, next one is to Hong Kong. :)

[Turin Turambar]

We only went to the port towns in the mediterranean. And some Caribbean Islands and Venezuela. I did get to go to London, but not Paris. I would have liked to see Paris. Maybe someday.

 

I would like to see some of the Asian cities too. Hong Kong would be interesting.

[Leelou]

Oh yeah, and I've been to the Bahamas a few times and down to Jamaica once.

[Turin Turambar]

Wow. My gateway overheated there for a second. Must have been working DM and FB at the same time. St. Thomas was my fav of all the islands down there. Nice, not too crazy and soooooooo beautiful. the part of Jamaica I went thru, yikes. I wish I had my glock. We weren't on the resort side.

[Turin Turambar]

Yosemite park in California is nother beautiful place if you like nature and trees and don't mind bears.

[Vam]

malaysia was .. interesting. cute young hijabis at the airport bearing submachine guns was a bit of a shock initially.

 

we got stuck in this massive traffic jam. A cop rides down the footpath on his motorbike and stops at a car just down from us.

Turns out the driver had fallen asleep in the heat. if you fell asleep at the wheel where i'm from, you'd lose your licence.

the cop their just woke him up and off we all went again.

 

too humid though.. once you leave the house you start sweating and as soon as you go back you shower, crank the aircon and never want to go again for the day.

 

There is a fruit there that is like a cross between a capsicum and an apple.

I call it an apsicum. capsicle would probably be an acceptable name also.

I wish we could get them here.

[Niniel]

  On 9/29/2011 at 7:37 AM, Turin Turambar said:

Yosemite park in California is nother beautiful place if you like nature and trees and don't mind bears.

 

I have been there and it was very beautiful. I have taken one of my best photos ever there at a waterfall. I also got a photo of me and my sister beside a Bear Warning Sign. We had some laughs because I pronounced it wrong a couple of times and said beer warning. You know me and English...

[Turin Turambar]

That would be something to see.

 

"Do not feed the beers."

 

" Do not fear the Beers."

 

"Do not give beer to the bears"