It's been a while

Sorry it's been so long since I've up dated, but I've been all over the place and then trying to get everything settled so I can FINALLY move to London tomorrow! Very excited! So needless to say I don't have all my cords and electronics to transfer photos from my adventures so I leave you this. A photo I took leaving wonderful Madrid where Gloria and I had many adventures!

Paris

Internet is spotty but here's a view from Paris you might enjoy

London!

Currently cruising the beautiful city of London! Since I'm about to embark on about 4 weeks of travel I've left my luggage and computer at the office and I'll be updating with iPhone photos when I can. Here's a view that I could never tire of:

Also I leave tomorrow on the over night bus to Edinburgh, Scotland! Yeeeehaawwww!

OH YEAH!

I FINISHED MY CLASS! NOW TIME FOR SOME MORE TRAVELS!

COMING UP: Scotland with George and Gloria! Then I'm off on a 2 week tour around 8 different countries in Europe including France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and they count England since it's our starting point. So what I'm saying is that I'll be leaving Poole on Tuesday and then it will be fairly quiet around here, but don't worry I'll be back!

Bath!

Remember how I love Jane Austen? No, really? Cause I'm pretty sure I told you, hmmmm, interesting. Well either way, I LOVE JANE AUSTEN! So much so, that George and I went to Bath for the Jane Austen Festival! I love Bath, it is so beautiful. I could live there and get lost in all the little streets and eat amazing chocolate (Jenn- I went back to that chocolate place and the rose and lavender candies were amazing! Again!) and go swimming in the natural hot baths. It is very quant and has a very old world feel.  

Well, the weekend started off horribly. We rented a car since Bath is a little less than 2 hours away from Poole. George was driving and seeing the country side was great, but our car was 3 HOUR LATE! So we missed a few events of the weekend we were desperate to see. Mostly we wanted to see the promenade, the parade of all the people dressed in period clothing. Then once we were on the road the GPS wouldn't work, then there were detours on the road that took us an hour out of our way! When we finally got there we were a bit cranky. We did see a few people dressed up and managed to get to the Jane Austen museum on our first day. We did some exploring around town and even found the apartment where Jane lived for a short while, which is now a dentist office. Want to see? 

 If you can imagine, it was rainy off and on all day. 

A few dressed up ladies

Swanage

Here is a little treat from me to you! These are Morris dancers, traditional English folk dancers in traditional dress. There were many different groups when George and I went to the Swanage Folk Festival, which all in all was a little sad. But we had a mission to see these dancers since Rich was so annoyed at the thought of them! Tracey and Rich are the couple I've been living with for the past month. They are lovely and both come from Swanage, so we had to see what this was all about. 

Holland part 2- Leiden!

Me and Gloria hanging by the canal after the market!

So this is going to be a post with a slew of iPhone pictures. Sorry, I know they are really crappy, but like I said my camera was low on battery so I had to conserve! Anyway, I documented some adventures with my trusty iPhone (seriously what did I do without it?!). Most of these photos will be food and that's because Gloria and I ate like Kings! Ok, well, at least we were really loving our choice in foods. So here we go!