superlate

Apparently I just enjoy doing my travel blog. It all seems so long ago now (especially the parts I’m still going over). But that’s ok because it’s nice to just sit here and think about the cool stuff Giffy and I got up to on our OE. We’re kind of thinking about another one, since one of my bosses was telling me that I should be considering going further a field for my training, but not seriously talking about it since that’d be a while away and we’ve got more interesting things to talk about at the moment.

Back to the travelling. So our next stop was what Giffy and I have used as our answer to that inevitable (and inedible) question, “where was your favourite place you visited?”. ( Vienna )

I'm supprised this became an issue.

"Superlate is blacked out: Stand up against "Guilt Upon Accusation" for New Zealand. http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html"

I note Stephen Fry is on there list of supporters :)

What can I say?
Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on crowd
Sometimes, nights are long. Not that I'm complaining. Pretty happy no dying children tonight.

May as well take advantage of it while it continues.

( Venice )

All in all, Venice was another great destination. On the down side of it, it was very expensive (even compared to Rome) and walking around the city you do get the feeling that anyone who actually lives there full time must be in the service/tourist industry. Not a lot of room for regular life peoples. With that said, the reason that the city is so touristy is that it's a beautiful, fascinating city so don't let the tourists put you off. Also, it may or may not be sinking, so you should go soon; just in case.

I've had a couple of busy nights so I lost my momentum a bit. No matter, back to the posting.

( Verona )

That wasn't so long this time - barely needed a cut. Getting through it slowly. Only Venice, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Trier, Paris, Leon, Bern, Zurich, Munich, Berlin, Lolland, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Belfast, Derry, Dublin, Cork, LA and SoCal to go.... *sigh*

Night at work continues not too bad *knock on wood or at least what ever this desk is made out of*. May as well just kick off again.

In the interests of this not taking me a million year or, more likely, this never getting finished, I'm going to try and be a bit quicker with my descriptions and recounting and generally be a bit briefer (which I'm so good at of course).

( Firenze )

So much for keeping it short

I'm on nights again for the first time in ages (if you don't count the all day and all night and all day again shifts in Ireland which I try not to think about) and LiveJournal is not blocked at work! So I figure I should try and take advantage of this time and try to get some more of my travel blog done. However, I've partially finished the next part of my travel blog at home and I don't have it here so instead I shall tell you all the tale of my own experience with loved ones going off to the hospital.

( terror and relief )

Anyway, finally back to the travel blog. I hope I still remember something...

So, on to the second day.

( Hats Theatre, The Esqualment of Lhask, American Gladiator Best Friends, Indigo City )

All in all, great experience again and perhaps one of my best Kapcons yet.

Once again, I wander away from my account of my travels to talk about something more recent. I plan to go back to my travel log (but last time it didn’t happen… oh well we’ll see how it goes). Instead, I bring you a brief account of my Kapcon Weekend.

( Syn, Re: Ducks, Long Lost Boys, LARP )

Maybe I’ll break this into 2 posts…

Next on our list of European must-sees was Roma. Rome’s an impressive place, crammed full of culture, religion and tourists. A healthy intolerance of other tourists is something to cultivate while you’re travelling. Lots of people make the age old choice for intolerance on the basis of race when deciding exactly which tourists one dislikes the most. A common theme is “oh those damn Americans”, which is followed closely by “urgh the Germans! Don’t get me started on the Germans”. For me it’s mostly, “Argh! I hate those guys who got here before me!”

( dance... Roma )Yeah, so, Rome was pretty cool.