Pictures Round 2 (DWA)

Heres a few more pictures for you to check out, we'd post more but it takes forever to transfer them on these computers for whatever reason. Enjoy!

Wow, I could really come back here...for a while

Krakow is a gorgeous, old city city. Not to be cliche but you can "feel" the history in it's stones and buildings. We took a walking tour of the city today, it cost us 42 zoltys which is approximately 17 dollars for a three hour tour with our own guide, well there were 3 other people on it but close enough. Our tour guide Lukas, who looked just like Adam and Andrew's friend Timmy Smith, was very knowledgeable and shared a lot of very interesting information with us. The city has a center square which is a great place to sit and have a few Zywiec and Warka, Polish beers, and watch the world go by. We all really wish we had similar places in the states to enjoy but I guess thats what makes Europe so special to us Yankees. Poland has been the most friendly place we have been, at least in my opinion, the people are willing to share their language with you and more than willing to give you their opinions. I really wish we could stay here more than two days the city is gorgeous and it feels like we have stepped back into time. Tomorrow we are going to Auschwitz for a 6 hour tour, which cost us 80 zolty. And despite our American jokes about Polish people, they are very intelligent, politics, history, language its amazing. We appreciate all your comments, keep them coming, we love reading them. Peace out.

-The Fab Four

Wake up in London, 18 hours later being followed in a grocery store by some Polish police guy

Hello everyone from Krakow Poland, where we are no longer on the pound and we can no longer speak the native language. Even our blog site is in weird letters like.......Zamieszczanie postow??????? Anyways we made it finally to Poland after a long day of travel that started out in London and a 2 hour bus ride to Stansted a 3 hour wait to get on the plane, 2 hours plane ride, an hour waiting for a bus in the middle of Poland and a 15 minute walk to the Hostel. We went to a grocery store where I couldn't tell you anything name wise, and we were followed like hawks by a police man. Then when we checked out the loaf of bread didn't register so the guy just gave us a different one, not nearly as tasty looking. But its now a 7 hour time difference making this post at 1:15 in the morning, thank goodness we don't have to be up early.

But i bet you want to hear about London. In a nutshell we saw: the London Bridge, Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Trafalgar's Square, Piccadily Circus, rode around on the tube, Big Ben and Parliament at night, The London eye and Millennium Bridge at night, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, The changing of the guard, walked down the Mall, St. James Park. I think thats it, all in less than 24 hours. Needless to say we are tired and excited for our next adventure. Talk to you soon!

Did Mark put on his Speedo and swim with Nessie?????

The answer to the question above is no, but we were traveling around the Scotish Highlands today, which was absolutely amazing. Although it was a tad chilly.......around 50 degrees we were all in awe with the beauty of the highlands. Our tour bus left Edinburgh at 8 am and we made a few quite a few stops along the 375 mile tour. We saw Hemish, the mascot of a tiny village of Glencoe, which is a Highland cow with huge horns and really long hair.

After our visit with the cow we went up into the highlands which is a small mountain range with brilliant green countryside and hundreds of rushing waterfalls. Ben Nevis, the highest peak in Scotland, all of the UK acctually, was clouded over which added to its awe in my opinion. We had some lunch in Fort Williams and headed up to Loch Ness which is the place we have all heard of. It was awesome being there and seeing just how beautiful it is, rather than thinking of Nessies and watching for the monster.

After the Loch, Andrew and Zippy took the boat tour for an hour, and no zippy did not put on the speedo or swim with Nessie. We stopped for dinner in a tiny little city, i can't remember the name at this time but we had some fish and chips which were tasty. We got back to Edinburgh around 8:30 pm our time so 2 :30 back home where we snuck some wine into the hostel.........shhhhh its illegal and would have gotton confiscated. Now we are in the commons area enjoying a Carling beer before we take showers and pack up so we will be ready for our train ride to London in the morning. Hopefully it won't rain, although it has been raining alot down south of us.....we have been as far West (Dingle), and now North (Inverness/Loch Ness) as we will be. That's all from us for now, much love and we'll talk to you as soon as we can.

Pictures!!!

Here's some pics of our travels thus far.......tell us what you think

Edinburgh...yeah

Wow my feet are really tired...we had to have walked like 10 miles today. We just got back from touring the city of Edinburgh, its amazing. The focal point is Edinburgh Castle which has loomed, good word, over the city for nearly 1000 years. While it is not all original it offered the 'fab four', our nickname from our free Ireland tour great views of the city. The tour of the castle took about 2 hours and then we made our way down the Royal Mile. Filled with tourist shops, kilt stores and shops galore it is the center of the Old Town and tourism in Edinburgh. We then made our way tour Hollyrood Park. Now this is no Park like we have in the states. Its the remains of a prehistoric volcano with a peak close to 750 feet tall, with breathtaking views of Edinburgh, its suburbs, the North Sea and the countryside beyond the city. It was kind of a hike to get there, well at least for me, the others seemed to have no problem. But the end was worth all that work and we were treated to the astounding view. We took the normal shots, including the 'cheesy lets all look away from the camera' pose, which I do have to say always look cool. After our descent we were nearly eaten alive by a mob of Swans and Geese but were saved by Adam bravely charging through the middle of them to our rescue. We are now getting ready to enjoy our tasty lasagna from Lidl and relax as it has been a very long day and we have an even longer one tomorrow as we are heading to the home of Nessie and Braveheart, The Highlands. Thanks for all your comments its nice to have a little bit of home. Talk to you all later.

Lidl you ask?

Two posts in one day, whats up with that. Anyway we made it to Edinbugh, which is sweet.....the streets have really tall buildings that are all connected. We will be sightseeing tomorrow. The only bummer is now we're on the flipping (like that mom) pound which sucks. Our hostel is in an old church, with some dry walls thrown up in the middle like little cubicles and we stare up into the top of an old church, pretty wild acctually. We were pretty hungry....imagine that......so we went to this little grocery store called Lidl's.....mom you would have loved it. It was a german Aldi, haha. We made tacos, bought ice cream, and breakfast for tomorrow for £4 a piece which isn't bad.

Its pretty cold around here though, my baldness does not do good in the wind, i may need a stocking cap. It was sad to say goodbye to Ireland which was awesome, thats right brooke i'm Irish :) Hey chad, you'll have to tell the guys at work there were these little concrete trucks everywhere but they were funny looking, i took a picture. Well we are wishing everyone well, there is a USB port on this computer so next time I log in i will post a couple of the pictures we have taken if thats possible. It's like 10 oclock now so i think we're going to run around the city a little bit.........Adios