To Justin

Just wanted to say the trip is coming near an end and we wish Justin could have came, sorry about Pete. By the way we have literally 1000 pictures to post but no wireless, we saw one wifi zone and it was in a restaurant far from our hostel and we don't know if it's a hotspot that you have to sign up for either. Bottom line we get home thursday and expect the following week or two to showcase tons and tons of pictures. I've had a great time and so has Mark and today we go to Versailles(spelling?) I only know it for the treaty and Mark told me bout it helping bankrupt France and I also know Marie Antoinette was kidnapped from there and then beheaded. What I don't know is what it looks like and I refuse to look, I much rather see it for my first time in person than on a pic online. I imagine I will get there and immediately recognize it from history books and such though. Wish us luck and thanks to everyone for reading. Anyway who cannot figure out how to post Rick Coxson has a hotline open 24 hours a day for any enquiries.

MK3

"O Cowards, here she is. Pour out into her stations"

We left Dijon yesterday and arrived safely in Paris. We didn't have a hostel booked, so I unsheathed my Lonely Planet travel book. The first hostel we called had open beds. After we got situated in the room, we basically wandered the city, not committing ourselves to any attractions. Today we plan on the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower and maybe Morrison's grave. Hopefully pictures will appear shortly.

Courage--
MCX

PS- Mathis wants everyone to know the receptionist has a mammoth bossom

Veni vidi vici

It's about 1130am here in Venice, and we've booked our next destination in Dijon, France. It's a nice little stop on the way to Paris; plus they have a mustard museum. There's no wireless around here, and there probably won't be in Dijon, so no new pictures until we're in Paris. But you have my permission to gouge yourself on sweets and cigarettes and whatever may constitute your vice to get you through the interim. A la France.

PPS

I found it ''''''''''''''''

Vienna to Venice

Were in Venice right now, and things are pretty pretty pretty pretty decent. All Im going to say right now is that one of us ended up in the canal last night, and it wasnt exactly that persons plan to be in the canal. Ill also say that this person has a full beard. Thats all for now.

PS- I cant find the apostrophe on this renegade italian keyboard.

Mark

Prague

We have gone beyond the old iron curtain, and we are seeing Prague in all of it's un-bombed splendor. After a little trouble with trains from Dresden, we arrived here about 6pm yesterday. Someone was handing out hostel info on the train, so we snapped that up and proceeded to find the hostel when we arrived. Try to imagine, if you can, an old gymnasium/basketball-court stuffed with 100 bunkbeds and lockers. Once you can comprehend that idea, you can understand our sleeping situation. It's actually pretty cool and chummy though, and, considering it's only 200 crowns (about 7 euros), there's nowhere I'd rather be.

We slept for something like 11 hours last night after an exhausting journey, but today we've been walking the town and seeing the sights. I don't know the first thing about their language here, but everyone seems to have a working knowledge of English. That seems to be the case in most places. Dresdener's probably knew the least English because, as a girl in the public park put it, Dresden's really just a big village. It's also been my favorite location thus far. Anyways, apropos Prague (or Praha) and their crazy language, their informal hello is ahoj (pronounced ahoy). That's as far as I've gotten, but any peoples who greet their fellow countrymen as pirates are fine in my book.

What else, what else? It's all too much really. The pictures are hopefully translating a smidge of the experience, but so much is beyond transcription.

We have one more night here, and then we're off: probably to Vienna, but we're going to look at a map and decide for sure tonight. Hope all is well in Florida. I'll have a new appreciation for a lot of things upon returning, AC for sure--Ireland was chilly, London was balmy, but Germany and onwards has been plain hot. I'm of course waiting in pretentious anticipation for France. We got that titillating drive through the north, but we won't actually visit for a while.

If nothing else, by the end of this journey I'll be an expert on which cities have the prettiest girls. They're all going to be hard pressed to beat Dresden.

Courage--
Mark

Dresden Pics

Here is a small lot of Dresden pics for you as an effort to keep you more visually updated, we barely have time to share the hundreds of pics, so here is dresden where we were at yesterday morning. Some prague pics in the next few days. And always expect some pics of places we've been but been to busy to show. On to some Dresden.

For JP and Adam


  



  

Half man half wolf, all beast


  

Me and my Dresden Doll Fina/Worst smile ever


  

Fina and Mike juggling flaming clubs at night in the park.


  

  

  

First time hookah for Mathis and Mark being the old pro


  

  

Architecture and water and statues and stuff


  

  

  

  




  

  

  

  




  

  

Off to Prague

It seems that we cannot find a hostel in Prague online, meaning that we are taking a train there and wondering around till we find one, that or sleep on the streets, which I am not opposed to, its definately not as hot on the streets during summer.

Send A.C.

Dresden

Ok so we stayed in Dresden last night and we are here again one more night, we decided to try and keep the pictures current so expect Dresden pics tomorrow, and we will slowly but surely keep posting older pics from England and Germany also. Keep checking back and feel free to leave comments.