back in london

so i'm back in london. feels good to have the cool weather and familiar words back (english).

leaving for france tomorrow. paris for one night (probably going to have to sleep at the train station due to the fact we couldnt find a place to stay)...then La Rochella (i dont know if i spelled that right) , a 3 hour train ride west from paris.


oh, and is anyone still even reading my posts....?

-L

firenze, italy

firenze (florence) is a city of art. beautiful.

time goes by waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast here. i look at the map and california seems like an entire different world...million of miles away.

overnight train ride to paris tomorrow night then eurostar back to london. we are thinking of either wales or scotland after london... then paris and dublin, ireland before our trip back home to the states.

its funny how things happen to you unexpectedly. i meet new people and learn something new everyday here.... something that ive always dreamt of doing, it seems a bit surreal right now..but hey, not complaining.

missing you all.
laura

padova and venice, italy

we stayed at a friends friend house here in padova the last 2 nights. very nice guy. visited venice yesterday...beautiful.

leaving for florence today for a couple of days. going with the flow now.

its hard to believe ive been gone for three weeks now. we are busy everyday and it makes time whoosh by a bit too quickly. but thats a good thing, it means im having fun.

zurich

made it into zurich. all we need to worry about is actually getting in touch with this friend of ours here.

one quote i meant to include in my blog yesterday but forgot --

"you are without rights, dishonorable and defenseless. You are a pile of shit and thats how youre going to be treated." ---camp leader to new prisoners at the dachau concentration camp.

back to my point, zurich is gorgeous.

munich.

i love it here!! having a blast here. leaving for zurich, switzerland tomorrow. staying with this deaf guy we met at the party here in munich. nice to have connections now.

visited the dachau concentration camp today. so depressing.. im so glad its history.

thinking of u all back in america!!


p.s. it rained everydaz except for one day here in europe. jeez.


love always -- laura.

munich. after 6.5 hours on the train from berlin, we finally got to munich. as soon as we checked into our hostel, we were off to the deaf beach themed party here in munich. wow. all i can say is that people here can definitelz stay up all night. nobodz left the party until 5 am. i only got 4 hours sleep today. will definitelz sleep early tonight. :)

berlin

we have been in berlin the last 3 days. a lovely city (but poor with graffiti everywhere). had a difficult time communicating with people here compared to the other countries we ve been to. we went into this department store and soon discovered that we passed as someone from germany and a saleslady spoke german...of course i wasnt able to lip-read.

went on the bike tour yesterdaz, it lasted 3.5 hours. funny how we ve been meeting people here that are from california.. perhaps people from california are world travelers :)

we are off to munich. made a typical american mistake yestzerday by telling the ladz at the train station that we wanted to leave at 1:00 todaz...she misundeerstood and thought 1am... oops. i meant 13:00.

hopefully will be meeting up with a bunch of deaf people in munich for a beach themed party tonight.

ich liebe es!!!

later.

berlin

i truly liked amsterdam. such a lovely city ... was really unsatsified when we left today. felt that we didnt get to do as much as i wanted to do there -- definitely a place to come back to!! we took the train to berlin today. 6 and half hour ride. lvoe the hostel so far_- but only staying here one night then moving on to a different hostel tomorrow.

berlin for the next 3/4 days. later!

everything is fine

yes a couple of bombs/threats occured in london the last few days. but we're fine. leaving for amsterdam tonight.