The English Can Cook
So my place is looking pretty spiffy right now. I just borrowed the Staubsauger (Hoover) from my Hausmeister got my floors looking nice for Lindsay's arrival. Some of my ASC girlies might remember Lindsay T. She entered with '05 and then transferred to Arkansas half way through sophomore year. She's studying in Graz, Austria this year and we're a short 7 hour train ride with 2 Umsteigen (~connections) away. And right now we're 2 hours away from reuniting for the first time 2 years!
To quote Matt, "We'll be rockin' the Bayern Ticket" this weekend and going down to Munich for a night. I'm trying to decide if I could stand to stay in a hostel mega dorm room with 17 other people for just the one night we're there. But for just 3 euros more I think I'll opt for an all female room with only 3 beds...so one stranger tops in the room with us.
Somehow as I fall asleep at night I think about all the things that I should post about and then when I sit in front of the computer the next day...I can't think of a damn one. Maybe I'll drag myself out of bed one night and try to get those things posted.
In other news, I was trying to plan my trip with Tashi for the 10 days that she's here to visit. I'm thinking 3 nights in Salzburg, 2 nights in Vienna, 1 night in Munich, 1 night at home, and then the last night in Frankfurt so we can both be close to the airports to catch our early morning flights? If she'd respond to my email. Both being fellow musical lovers, I can't imagine a better person to do the Sound of Music Tour with...except maybe my mother. I just rearranged the whole trip to make sure that we'd be in Vienna for Sunday morning church service at St. Stephen's Cathedral, where the internationally famous Vienna Boy's Choir performs every week.
So where will I be flying to when I fly out of Frankfurt (Hahn)? The Emerald Isle of course! The little Austrian tour will be followed by 9 days in Ireland...and then from Ireland I'll begin an Eastern European Tour with my friend Linda, who just happens to be Irish. It'll go something like this... Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Zagreb, Dubrovnik (the latest travel hot spot in Europe), and from Dubrovnik we'll catch a ferry across the Adriatic Sea to the heel of Italy, and from there we'll have 8 days to make it back up to Deutschland before the next semester starts on April 10th, 2005. I will be traveling for 6 of my 7 week break. Right now we're in major planning mode where it's both really exciting thinking about all we'll be doing and then really stressful trying to get the kinks worked out: plane flights, from Dublin to Warsaw and maybe Rome to Nürnberg, rail passes, night train reservations, ferry reservations, and sleeping accommodations. Oh and by the way...if anyone would like to donate to the "Alison's trying to see as much of Europe before she goes home and gets a job with only two weeks of vacation/yr. but might have to take out a small loan to pull this trip off" FUND... just let me know!
By the end of my time here I probably will have at least seen the capitol cities of: Germany, England, France, Spain, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and Italy. Most of which done during my year here, some done in two previous trips to Europe. The three big ones that I don't think I'll get done while I'm here are Portugal, Greece, and Turkey and I could probably give Italy a solid month on it's own...not just 8 days.
And ok, let it just be said beforehand... YES I DO REALIZE HOW UNBELIEVABLY BLESSED AND FORTUNATE I AM...and that's why I'm trying my best to live it up as much as possible (within my student budget). It's backpacking, rail passes, student discounts, and youth hostels...in short THE TIME OF MY LIFE!!
I'll try to send out as many postcards as my budget will allow!
To quote Matt, "We'll be rockin' the Bayern Ticket" this weekend and going down to Munich for a night. I'm trying to decide if I could stand to stay in a hostel mega dorm room with 17 other people for just the one night we're there. But for just 3 euros more I think I'll opt for an all female room with only 3 beds...so one stranger tops in the room with us.
Somehow as I fall asleep at night I think about all the things that I should post about and then when I sit in front of the computer the next day...I can't think of a damn one. Maybe I'll drag myself out of bed one night and try to get those things posted.
In other news, I was trying to plan my trip with Tashi for the 10 days that she's here to visit. I'm thinking 3 nights in Salzburg, 2 nights in Vienna, 1 night in Munich, 1 night at home, and then the last night in Frankfurt so we can both be close to the airports to catch our early morning flights? If she'd respond to my email. Both being fellow musical lovers, I can't imagine a better person to do the Sound of Music Tour with...except maybe my mother. I just rearranged the whole trip to make sure that we'd be in Vienna for Sunday morning church service at St. Stephen's Cathedral, where the internationally famous Vienna Boy's Choir performs every week.
So where will I be flying to when I fly out of Frankfurt (Hahn)? The Emerald Isle of course! The little Austrian tour will be followed by 9 days in Ireland...and then from Ireland I'll begin an Eastern European Tour with my friend Linda, who just happens to be Irish. It'll go something like this... Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Zagreb, Dubrovnik (the latest travel hot spot in Europe), and from Dubrovnik we'll catch a ferry across the Adriatic Sea to the heel of Italy, and from there we'll have 8 days to make it back up to Deutschland before the next semester starts on April 10th, 2005. I will be traveling for 6 of my 7 week break. Right now we're in major planning mode where it's both really exciting thinking about all we'll be doing and then really stressful trying to get the kinks worked out: plane flights, from Dublin to Warsaw and maybe Rome to Nürnberg, rail passes, night train reservations, ferry reservations, and sleeping accommodations. Oh and by the way...if anyone would like to donate to the "Alison's trying to see as much of Europe before she goes home and gets a job with only two weeks of vacation/yr. but might have to take out a small loan to pull this trip off" FUND... just let me know!
By the end of my time here I probably will have at least seen the capitol cities of: Germany, England, France, Spain, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and Italy. Most of which done during my year here, some done in two previous trips to Europe. The three big ones that I don't think I'll get done while I'm here are Portugal, Greece, and Turkey and I could probably give Italy a solid month on it's own...not just 8 days.
And ok, let it just be said beforehand... YES I DO REALIZE HOW UNBELIEVABLY BLESSED AND FORTUNATE I AM...and that's why I'm trying my best to live it up as much as possible (within my student budget). It's backpacking, rail passes, student discounts, and youth hostels...in short THE TIME OF MY LIFE!!
I'll try to send out as many postcards as my budget will allow!