Belgium

Oh no big deal, just went to the grocery store and got myself a
westermalle trippel for .85 cent

Yes, that is a common thought in my head as I sit here in Belgium. My
second afternoon and I've seen more Belgium beer then people. After a
visit to Antwerps beer store, with over 280 different beers, here I
sit wondering why there isn't more in Canada. Even the grocery stores
carry a massive selection!

Off to Brussels tommorrow, I'm sure I'll expirience the same thing
there though!

Goodbye london, Hello belgium!

> Well after a wonderful week in london, we're off to belgium. There
> was a lot less castles, but a lot more everything else. Still not
> the greatest food, but we found a nice little grocery store called
> planet organic. Caitlin got her fill of old paintings at some
> gallerys, and i saw some guns at the imperial war museum. We found a
> super cool bike store which caitlin got a fancy new bag from, and
> will possibly buy a bike frame from. Nearby was a local market
> filled with just about everything you could want cheap. We've had
> tons of lunches in the parks here, which there are plenty of, and
> delicious falafels. (Looking forward to the paris one though)
> Tomorrow is a wonderful 7 hour coach ride into antwerp, where we
> are staying for a couple days.
> still no photos...its harder then i thought to find a computer that
> i can plug my camera into.
> -Jay

Bobbies

We moved on from really rainy Cardiff to London! Today we went to
westminster palace which had really awesome victorian architecture but
not quite what we wanted because I forgot that it had burnt down and
was not the original. Next we headed over to tower of london which was
overwhelmed we people so tomoorow I am going early! Right now we are
sitting in a park picnicing and tonight treating ourselves to eating
out and going to watch unglorious basterds!!!! Tomorrow we are also
going to tie in a museum too, probably the science one. All in all a
really great time so far in London but no good beer stores:(:(
Caitlin!

Wales

Wales is great. We've seen tons of awesome castles and ruins. We
started in Chester, then went down to chirk castle, which was closed
(booooo), then across to flint. Flint castle was great! It was perched
on a nice hill infront of the ocean. It wasn't a pay-for castle which
was neat, however it was sewell closed. Just when we were about to
give up and leave, a local told us how to climb the side and get in
anyhow, which was what all the locals did appearently. So we got to
see the inside afterall! After flint came conwy with the massive conwy
castle. What more exciting for me was the discovery ov a little tiny
specialty beer store, filled with awesome brews. We had to go back the
next morning to stock up! Today we came to Bangor, were we just
finished beaumaris castle. It had a moat! It was duper windy, but
really fun to be at the top of the tower in the howling wind. We now
await our bus down to aberyswyth(sp??)
Internet isn't as common here, so posts will be further apart.
Also happy birthday Scott an dad!
-j

Fwd: Photos failure

>

> Well I tried posting some of our photos, but this site only allows
> very small ones, and I have no way to crop them. I will post if I
> can some other time were I can edit them.
> Sorry!
> So we arrived in in Stirling today! A nice quaint town north of
> Edinburgh. We saw Starling castle and Doune castle (MONTY PYTHON!) I
> totally reconised tons of scenes from the movie from this castle. It
> was definetly a highlight of the trip.
> We then tried finding a brewery in a town called Alloa, but we
> failed. Sooo we came back to the hostel were i have been trying to
> send photos, but it failed. Tomorrow we are off to liverpool, then
> wales.
> Last night we sat on the grassy field in Edinburgh and watched the
> bagpipers play on Edinburgh castle. It was really quite nice. There
> was some big huge piping fest going on, so every single hostel was
> booked up. I've heard enough bagpipes to last a lifetime in the last
> 2 days too.
> Hopefully I'll find a good computer soon, until then, its just my
> borring typing.

On to a bigger island(and less rain too!)

Yesterday we left Belfast and arrived in Glasgow and now we are in
Edinburg! We had a really fantastic day, first was Edinburg castle
(huge tourist trap and reenactments) so that was disappointing but
then we went to holyrood palace which for me wAs incredible. All that
I've read about there and the murder of Rizzio and to actually be
there was awesome and. Not to mention how there was incredible
paintings there that were unexpected!(ie royal paintings of ALL the
people I've read about!) and then We tried to find iniss and gunn
brewery but you need a reservation so no luck. Tomorrow is stirling
with stirling castle, doune castle(Monty python holy grAil castle) and
the brewery of froach! Then off to liverpool for a night. It is alot
less rainy and we actually saw sun and shedded our rain jackets AND
they have the BEST macaroons here, even jay really likes them! I'd try
to bring some home but I'd eat them first!
CAitlin

Changes

Heya everybody!
Tonight we hit Belfast! 7 hours of bussing from Galway, so it's nice
to be here. I sort of forgot to get the address of our hostel, so we
wondered around looking for Internet connection for 2 hours. Buuut we
made it. We finished in cork and went to Killarney, which was COVERED
in tourists, so we went to a park away from the hubab. The next day we
went to the cliffs of Moher, which were really neat, but didn't quite
deserve '7 wonders of the world.'
The big news now is we have officially, after much thought, changed
our flight home to the 24 of September. We did so because were
travelling waaay faster then we thought and won't need this much time
to fo everything we wanted. Plus were flying right into vancouver, no
Seattle to worry about!
Still no access to photos, but maybe soon? We head out to Scotland in
2 days, then who knows were!
I have also decided the purchase of this iPod was one of my best ever.
- J
-I agree with Jay on the iPod - Caitlin