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Lukyan Lyubof · 19-07-2010, 04:10 PM

Sounds like a lovely plan!
We are trying to when it is not too cold nor too hot Smile

**A Cousin** · 19-07-2010, 07:20 PM

(18-07-2010 07:39 PM)picard1109 Wrote: I went to the US a couple of months later and that was a much, much bigger culture shock!

Happy to oblige! We like to be shocking... Wink

(18-07-2010 07:39 PM)picard1109 Wrote: We're going to rent an apartment just north of Perpignan, so that we can explore parts of southern France, as well as pop over to Spain and visit the Dali museum (again) in Figueres.

There is a good Dali Museum in St. Petersburg (wait for it!) Florida. If there's a next time, skip Newark and head for Florida! http://thedali.org/

No. Wait. Spain is much better! Cool

**Nia M** · 19-07-2010, 08:51 PM

Am going to France again on the 1st of August - back to my French exchange's house. Cannot wait! Big Grin

newagent · 31-07-2010, 12:33 AM

Going to Chicago tomorrow, hang out in the downtown area and back Sunday afternoon.

**JHyde** · 31-07-2010, 06:56 AM

I never expected Berlin to be a city I'd want to visit, but the way Bea has been speaking of it since she got back, I now want to go!

Philippa · 31-07-2010, 10:02 AM

I absolutely love to travel! Perhaps it's in my blood, considering that my dad works for a major airline and my mum and grandpa used to as well.
I was born and raised in the Netherlands and currently live in Amsterdam, although my parents live in France so I spend quite a lot of time over there as well. In Europe I've travelled to: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Wales, Sweden and Greece.
I've also been to Egypt, South Africa, Sri Lanka, US (Texas), Bonaire and Curaçao (Dutch caribbean), Canary Islands and Isla Margarita (off the coast of Venezuela).

And there are so many more countries I still want to visit Smile

(19-07-2010 08:51 PM)Nia M Wrote: Am going to France again on the 1st of August - back to my French exchange's house. Cannot wait!

Whereabouts in France will you be staying Nia?

**Nia M** · 31-07-2010, 11:19 AM

I'm going to a place near Bernay, a town not far from Rouen.

You sound pretty well travelled! I've not been to many places within Europe, although I'd love to one day.

Philippa · 31-07-2010, 01:51 PM

Ah, that's quite far away from where I am at the moment. I'm in the East of France, about 150 kilometres from the Swiss border.

And living on the continent makes it a lot easier to travel to other European countries. For instance, we used to live about a 20 minute drive from the Belgian border, so sometimes we just popped over to Belgium to do our grocery shopping Smile

**Nia M** · 31-07-2010, 02:30 PM

Aww, I'd love to be able to do that. As it is, I'm a little too far away from Scotland or Wales or France to do something like that Tongue

YourFutureMuse · 31-07-2010, 05:06 PM

Crete was amazing and I am definitely returning and recomend it to anyone who hasn't been! I stayed in Agios Nikolaos which is an amazing town and went to the archaelogical museum there so often that the women recognised me and on my 4th visit let me go behind the scenes to see where they were doing restoration work on a skull! So cool Big Grin

(yes I realise how sad that sounds Tongue

). The museum in Heraklion is even better and its a really modern and cool city (it even has a Bershka Big Grin

). I caught the bus there on my own which sounds not much buut is was the first time I have done something like that completely by myself and is was daunting haha I had to ask the bus driver what time the last bus was lots of times I was so scared of getting stranded Tongue

. What I also loved was that you couldn't drive more than about 10km down the road without seeing a sign for an archaological site Big Grin

I was rather disappointed by Knossos but if anyone goes they must visit the ruins of Lato and also the island of Spinalonga. I find Greek people the friendliest than in any other country I've been to although the men are such perverts lol. When I return I am going out of season so I can do more walking and I can go to Knossos again without having to elbow silly foreigners who view it only as a photo op out the way ( and english people too I am no xenophobe hahaha).

I remembered why I loved travelling (although I did throw something which can only be described as a temper tantrum at the airport check in desk and again on the plane because they didn't have the veggie meal I'd preordered hahaha what a diva Tongue

) and I loved being able to actually talk to french and german people in their own language I got so excited Big Grin

(not greek sadly hahaha I can still only manage thank you and please Tongue

). French people make me laugh I met this really cool one who I want to be when I am older and we had a little bitching session about the coach load of canadians in our hotel she was ruthless haha Tongue

. I am thinking of planning a trip to Paris with my birthday money now, completely alone eeeeeeee.

This post is a lot longer than I anticipated in to be lol but my internet has dropped so before i can press send I have to restart my router so I am babbling yay Tongue