Tuesday, May 27, 2008

What a month!

Can't believe June is just around the corner... amazing how time flies...

I have much to update on this blog.. so I will try my best in the next few weeks to work on a few entries.

First things first, 11 days off and 2 bank holiday weekends later, the city hopping has finally finished!

I completed my final 2 city hops this weekend, hitting up Sofia and Plovdiv Bulgaria. This completed my 6 city tour in a month! So many different stories I have to sort it out in my head before I can type it all up!

But here are the high level highlights:


  • Florence - Amazing city. A must visit for anyone. Most memorable experience - Bike Tour of Tuscany and meeting 3 doctors from Chicago!

  • Palma, Mallorca - Upgraded suite and doing absolutely nothing

  • Paris, France - Uncle and Dad pretending to be Japanese tour guides

  • Barcelona, Spain - Sangria and Flamenco with the Family

  • Sofia, Bulgaria - No ATM at the airport!

  • Plovdiv, Bulgaria - No means yes, and yes means no, '89 Bulgarian Wine, cubans, and of course the wedding!



And of course, robots galore... I think I have like 10-12 videos to upload still, but mission accomplished. The collection keeps growing! Some good, some bad.. I thinking I have to be a bit more creative with them!

I hope to update this blog with some detail to each of the above bullet points. Its fun reading back at it in the future, so I'm going to try and stick to my guns this time and actually update it. I regret posting each of my unique experiences on each city I visit... especially the one in Istanbul when I had to use the public toilet... now that's a story, but probably reserved over a pint in the pub!

Friday, May 02, 2008

City hopping..

Hard to believe its almost a year since Cinque Terra and 9 people staying in my flat... but its that time of the year where I'm off for over 2 weeks city hopping! In this year's agenda we have: Florence, the island of Mallorca, Paris, and Barcelona!

Its quite exciting since it will be the first time my whole family will be here together! But before the madness starts, I'm off to explore on my own in the beautiful city of Florence. It should be an amazing time and very interesting since I will be traveling alone! Its nice traveling alone sometimes... it presents a new experience and forces you to meet new people!

I just keep wondering how I'm going to be able to convince someone to videotape me doing the robot - a routine I normally do in every new city I visit....