Saturday, December 11, 2010

Frost

San sebastion is worth a trip. We stayed in the best hostel with really cool people that just made it so much fun. Sure it rained every day and it was really cold but it was fun and seriously the best common room ever, everyone would just go out and play quitar we even had a waltzing matilda sing along, which just led to more australian odd songs. It was good though because they could paly the guitar really wellso it was nice. Then after a few days it was off to paris. I hated paris. It was so cold there and we had to take a train a lot earlier than we thought because they wouldnćt let any more eurail people on the night train. So we get into paris at about 1130 at night and under no circumstances would our hostel let us check in early they were very specific on the sight. So we had to stay in the train station. Which wouldnćt have been a big deal if it wasnćt below freezing. Even indoors in the trainstation it was so cold we put on all our cloths climbed in our sleeping bags and were still cold. the ground was that granite that does not get warm it just gets colder. Some how though our delierium and laughter over random things we fall asleep and wake up to find the trainstation full of people which would have been really awkward if it was our first time, Which it wasnćt. So eventuallz we make it over to our hostel and walk inside and blend into the breakfast crowd. So we check in finally at eleven and the evil french man informs us that we have to leave and come back at 3. They kick everyone out of the hostel and clean it. So i walked around and shannon walked around i went to the graveyard and she went to the museum. I saw jim morrisons grave and oscar wildes. then i just had to get home because i was so cold and couldnćt remember what it was like to be warm. Eventually we left and went to amsterdam. Saw the van Gogh museum which was incredible a little sad though, i swear america has all the best art on loan, both stary night and the coffee shop were gone. And about half of his self portraits were gone. The building in amsterdam were so cool they were all leaning on each other and just adorable. Plus it might be the best water i have ever had, it just tasted so good. It was cold, like negative 15 one day. then we went to brugge to see the ice sculpture festival. the hostel was like a reformed dorm, which would have been okay if there were other people there, and there were we just could not figure out why we were all alone at the end of the halway and they were all together. Again the most thirst quenching water ever. Still freezing, did you know that its the coldest winter in like 300 years, fuck thats cold. We drink massive amounts of tea to stay warm. And trains are now heated instead of blowing cold air at the end of november. Frankfurt was weird going and gone then to Austria. Everyone was in such a rush. We walked around Vienna and people kept hitting us with their elbows and throwing out of their walking way. I think everyone should go to america and learn how to walk around the streets and not touch each other because it just drove me crazy all i wanted to do at the end of the day was walk around with my arms straight out and just spin and slowly work my way home. Its a little warmer in slovenia, but not by much. We are pretty much looking forward to prague though. It will be freezing, but we remember it so well and we are going to drink lots of coffee and warm wine. However cold it is i still bear in mind that i have not put on all my layers so im not the point of death cold just slightly colder in a way that makes you want to jazersize.

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