Bratislava

Yesterday Conny and I decided to go to Bratislava for the day. After a short (1 hour) bus ride we arrived in Slovakia. Now those of you who have seen Eurotrip will be slightly disapointed in the fact that I did not find the club, we did however find that the exchange rate worked in our favor. Beers in Bratislava are under 1 Euro, and food was equally cheap. I took 1000 of the local currency out at an ATM, which worked out to be about 30 Euro. This lasted for lunch, dinner, and of course sampling the fine beers of Slovakia, thank you Emilee for the suggested beer, it was delicious.

Not much else to report other then I got my bag back finaly and that this is my last nday in Vienna. Tomorrow morning it's back to the UK for a couple of days, then down to Africa on the 2nd.

Cheers,

Eli

First couple days in Vienna

It has been an exciting couple of days here in Europe. I left London's Heathrow Saturday evening and arrived in Rome about 20 minutes after public tranportation shut down. Trying my best to get downtown I found a taxi, only to discover that it would be 80 Euro to get into Rome... the next 10 hours were spent at the airport watching TV, doing paperwork, and sleeping on the floor.

Finally landed in Vienna at about noon on the Sunday. Unfortunately my bags did not arrive with me in Vienna. I am still bag less, which is not good because all of my clothes, camera chargers, medicine, tent, stove, my life, is in that bag. The one plus side is because I am not an Austrian National I get a shopping trip paid for by Austrian Airlines. So far all I have bought is one pair of pants, two shirts, and then some essentials like boxers, tooth brush, ect. Hopefully my bag will apear in the next day or so. It has been an adventure to say the least.

Conny (the friend I am staying with) has been amazing. Thank you Conny!!!! So far we have been site seeing to some of the spots in Vienna, we are planning on going skiing in a couple days, also we will be going to Bratislava one of these days. Things over here are much cheaper then in London. We have been frequenting a "little" Irish Pub here. The Austirans are great, and a the beer is cold.

I have to run now, we are going to Conny's parents tonight for dinner and we need to get some wine, until Next time

Eli

London, England... Jet Lag

Well after what seemed like an eternity, I finally landed here in London. The day started off at 5am Vancouver time, with Kira waking me up saying that I slept in (I don't think I set my alarm right...). After a quick pack up it was off to the airport. Security went by fast, and it turned out that getting up later was for the better. My plane left Vancouver at 7:44am, Then I went to Phoenix, from there Phillidelphia, and finally landing in London at about 10am Local time
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I am extremely jet lagged at the moment. It is 3pm here, which is 7am back home, and i've been up all night. I think after sleeping tonight I should be in good shape. Not much else to report, as I said I am exhausted, so I will keep this relatively short. Catherine as promised: Pictures... Nothing spectacular, just some snap shots of wondering around downtown London looking for my hostel... enjoy,

Until next time,

Eli

PS: Thanks to those who commented

Last weeks In Canada

First of all I'd like to thank everybody that made my trip across western Canada such a success. Thanks to all those who's couches I've crashed on, cars I've borrowed, and beer I've drank. Without your generosity this trip would not have been possible.

This is also my first post in this new blog. I hope this helps me keep in touch with all my friends and family in Canada. I'll be posting on here as often as I can, and uploading pictures as much as possible. Please feel free to comment on everything. I think this will be easier to update then my website, so Catherine stop harassing me to put new content on my website... it will go on here instead.

Nothing to insightful to say in this post as I am just getting used to the whole idea of keeping a blog. I think once I actually leave the country I will have more to say, and of course more pictures to upload.

I'm going to miss times like these more then you can imagine, and I look forward to seeing all of you again in the future.