8 October 2006

End of Paris, start of Prague

okay so i'm still backdating these posts, but it actually takes quite a bit of time to upload photos on this thing. here's my last night in paris--we picniced on wine and cheese under the eiffel tower. and then moving on to Prague--i met up with elizabeth, from study abroad, and nasim who was rounding out her week-long vacation.

Up the skirt of the eiffel tower and other assorted shots:






and then, Prague. in nasim's cousin's HUGE flat, along the Vlatada River and down the Charles Bridge:




6 October 2006

More Paris

as promised, more photos. people in these pictures could possibly be: me, Elodie (the french flatmate), Anna (the german flatmate), Pierre (the french friend from edinburgh), Rebecca (anna's sister) or any one of Elodie's given friends. the first photo is the view out elodie's front window...subsequent photos are taken all around the city and include the arc de triomphe, the seine and amelie's cafe. i'd give the photos captions themselves, but i'm not that good at this yet, and the art of html code is lost on me.
















5 October 2006

In the Beginning

Welcome to my probably not so crazy world of expedition and exploration in the United Kingdom, more namely, England! I've had a blog of mostly friends-only, neurotic, post cathartic thoughts for about three years now and thought it might be time to add another thread along with the more mundane parts of living/life abroad. I just wanted a place to document my travels and see if this abroad thing really is worth the hype. I have a sneaking suspicion that it just might be...

Bienvenue! Bienvenidos! Dobry Den!

So i arrived safely in England on the 18th of September amidst a flurry of planes, trains, buses and missed connections. After three days of 'moving in' and flat details, I took an eight-day tour of Paris and Prague to visit some old friends and flatmates from Scotland. I'm not so sure how to properly format pictures in this thing yet, but i'll try. here's the start of Paris: