tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207183722024-03-12T20:26:22.768-04:00Where Is Joey Today?Follow me around the globe!Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-36932630849533777162010-05-31T15:04:00.000-04:002010-05-31T15:05:08.739-04:00Mi Primer DíaHola!! Estoy en el locutorio en la Plaza Mayor. La escuela empieza a las nueve pero hoy, nececité llegar a las ocho y media para los bienvenidos y para sacar un examen ver en cual clase yo debo estar. Estoy en curso A2 - pienso que yo sé alguna grammatica y escribo más mejor que yo hablo! Pero es bueno porque ahora puedo practicar hablando los verbos preteritos en español. Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915029056649702478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-27374871499933540402010-05-29T04:07:00.006-04:002010-05-29T08:02:20.368-04:00I can't believe Albayzín Granada again!Em and I arrived in Madrid a bit after midnight and Dad got us Holiday Inn express 3km from the airport. After a tricky arrival (the cabs want longer rides into the city and are reluctant to have their 1 hour or more wait for a ride be so short) we checked in called home and fell asleep hard.Given the slightly remote location of the hotel we needed to take aJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-32271101363165412372010-05-27T10:44:00.003-04:002010-05-27T11:00:31.063-04:00Some photos while I write some blog entriesSognefjord TourFlaam WaterfallFantoft StavekirkeSyttende Mai OsloHasta luego from the outskirts of the outskirts of Granada,JoeyJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-53448336823269533872010-05-25T04:44:00.005-04:002010-05-25T04:59:09.792-04:00Quick update from Madrid,I have been slacking on blogging for a couple of reasonsç1.) Computers have been hard to come by and computers with SD readers have been non existant.2.) We have been traveling every couple of days without much in the way of "down time". Our one down day was in Alesund. A town with no cyber cafes which you can blame on Scandinavian prosperity and a low immigrant Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-90023726874718469952009-07-19T04:44:00.026-04:002009-07-20T06:44:08.355-04:0074 (Mile) El CaminoWhat a walk that was. I'll explain kind of what happened throughout the blog. Fair warning, it was a long walk and it will be a long entry.BackgroundFirst let me give a reader's digest version of what is the Camino de Santiago. If you already got the gist of it, you can skip ahead to La Coruna. Back shortly after Jesus' crucifixion the Apostles began building the new Jewish Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-44936410822819848262009-07-16T07:56:00.001-04:002009-07-16T07:57:55.230-04:00Quick.UpdateThe.computer.I.am.on.right.now.is.kind.of.fluky.with.its.space.bar.I.arrived.yesterday.safe.and.sound.I.will.post.an.explanation.of.what.happened.later.Sorry.for.the.worry.everyone.--JoeyJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-26255914174300068332009-07-09T13:49:00.009-04:002009-07-09T14:34:38.641-04:00Bilbao DragginOur initial jeg lag was still sort of with us by the time we got to Spain. A crappy night sleep on the plane and loud accomodations on the first night at the hostel combined with a nice accomodations but a short night the second Trisha and I scrapped our plans to check out the Guggenheim in favor of just heading to our heim in La Guardia.But first, a cafe con leche and tortilla Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-90654399077107038402009-07-09T13:20:00.004-04:002009-07-09T13:47:11.361-04:00Pub Grub: London is for BeefeatersThe next day we woke up late and groggy from the mediocre night of sleep. The next night we had accomodation at the Hilton by Stansted airport so we figured if we were tired we could call it an early night and head out of the city.While we were heading toward our place we heard a few girls talking about the Beatles cafe a few stops down on Jubilee. Trisha thoughtJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-43458294248869333322009-07-08T06:43:00.004-04:002009-07-08T07:17:23.071-04:00A Smashing Fourth!Trisha and I arrived exhausted. The six hour flight is just not enough to get any sleep on (not that I do much sleeping on flights). Between dinner and and breakfast, your window for actually doing sleeping is about 4 hours.Our plans for an easy transition from Heathrow to Dollis Hill via a Jubillee line change at Green Park was tharwted by planned maintenance on both lines. A Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-35487801570336821802009-07-02T23:17:00.003-04:002009-07-02T23:24:21.002-04:00Back to EuropeMan a lot has happened in the relatively few months since I was last in Europe. We have a new president, I have a new girlfriend and the blog will have some new entries well before I pictured updating this with anything.Trisha won a scholarship to study at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain starting July 12th. We leave tomorrow for an itinerary that looks Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-15818706014735621202009-01-16T13:28:00.004-05:002009-01-20T20:14:06.418-05:00Getting PisteLucky trip number three to the Sierra Nevada in Granada. For a skiing novice it has a good variety of beginner and intermediate trails (although I only did a few of the latter).I headed off Granada via a stop in Newark and a busride from Madrid. The trip to the bus station at Menedez Alvaro takes a while on the metro and by the time I arrived I had missed the last bus of the morning Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-25833532254742495802009-01-06T22:24:00.004-05:002009-01-06T22:34:48.024-05:00Itinerary time!It's about that time again where I throw out my plans before my trip. If you didn't guess from my last post, I am headed to Spain next week for some skiing.Turned out that the flight was only about 300 bucks more than going out to Denver and I'll be saving about 200 between the accommodation and lift ticket/equipment rental.Sunday Jan 11 - Depart TampaMonday Jan 12 - Arrive Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-90825554161901367892008-12-30T00:03:00.003-05:002008-12-30T00:10:18.860-05:00...llena de lindas mujeres de sangre del solA comer, beber, esquiar y gozar que el mundo se va acabar. I had a change of plans for myColorado Ski trip.Nos vemos,--JoeJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-24884806537705193842008-09-06T13:42:00.000-04:002009-04-12T11:35:28.928-04:00 Wait...Maine isn't a peninsula? Dad was doing business in New Brunswick so he asked us if we wanted to head up to the land of Tim Horton's, toonies, and socialized medicine. We all flew into Manchester, NH and drove up through Maine to get there. Since most of our weather maps show the US as an island, I thought Maine was a peninsula, so you can imagine my surprise when we drove across the Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-89491778429965069632008-09-05T21:58:00.005-04:002008-09-06T00:02:05.456-04:00Detained in GatwickSo after my flight from Split landed in LGW, I duly got into my Non-EU, non-CH, passport line which happened to be a bit shorter than the others. U-S-A! U-S-A! I walked up to the desk and gave the guy my passport with a Spanish Passport cover (possibly my first mistake). The guy took it and began the following dialogue:"Where are you from"-"The states""And are you flying in Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-87936853842914494692008-07-02T12:35:00.011-04:002008-08-05T02:32:44.330-04:00Montenegro, baby why don't we go... After several days of doing a lot of nothing (well in my opinion having the sole objective for the day be to get a hamburger and some steak shish kebabs for the nightly barbeque is almost nothing) I decided to make a trip to Kotor. The town is a walled medieval city with a really cool wall that runs up to a fort at the top of a mountain overlooking a fjord. Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-24780914275482872882008-06-28T23:33:00.006-04:002008-06-29T00:33:54.398-04:00Why did I tell you I was going to Shanghai?After a fair amount of consideration I have decided to postpone*, not cancel, my trip to China. When I initially had the idea of going to the olympics in Beijing (it was just after Torino in 06) I thought it could be like Barcelona in 1992: city changing, memorable, potentially infamous, and an all out party to celebrate China's entrance on to the Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-71036487905532334762008-06-16T12:02:00.003-04:002008-06-24T13:08:49.168-04:00Accommodation RoundupOver a few months in Europe I stayed in a variety of places that ranged from personal homes, rented apartments, buses and bus stations, trains, hostels and even a couple of hotels.In order of usage:The Generator - London -- In the Russel Square area, cheap party hostel. You either love it or hate it. Personally I felt the police coming every night was a bit excessive. I Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-48836979868379035102008-06-13T11:13:00.004-04:002008-06-13T11:21:10.485-04:00Back in TampaI am still behind on my posts from Kotor, a little of Rome etc. So just a quick update for the time being. We got back safe and sound, the last 48 hours for me was a whirlwind that involved Bosnian cab drivers, Montenegrin border control guards, hitchhiking, sleeping in a Croatian bus station, getting detained in Gatwick, and having the best damn curry of my life. I wouldn't have it Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-51627671901768595712008-06-04T05:34:00.007-04:002008-06-05T07:20:20.390-04:00Yo Adriatic, it's rockyI hopped the night train from Rome to Bari in a three person couchette. The sleep on a night train is always hit and miss, if the ride is more than 8 hours you have a reasonable chance at a full night's sleep but when you get one that is 6 hours it just makes you tired. So I walked out of Bari Centrale at 7:30ish and waited for a McDonald's to open so I could sit and rest aJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-80049088616046777242008-06-03T07:03:00.003-04:002008-06-03T07:19:13.834-04:00On the Road in MunichThe late video is about 100 seconds of our time in Bavaria. Enjoy :)--JoeyJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-62160079670901941842008-05-24T14:02:00.014-04:002008-06-03T06:38:50.259-04:00We're in Vienna! Yeah I Donau either...We decided to waltz down to Vienna after being shut out of our Budapest train. We aren't yet in Europe's peak season but this is closer than I have ever been (while backpacking) so I am still getting used to the idea of hostels/trains/restaurants etc being booked.Just before leaving Krakow, I messaged a former colleague, Joachim, and told him that I would Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-48186458179729675832008-05-21T08:07:00.003-04:002008-05-25T09:46:50.909-04:00Polishing off Pierogies in KrakowNo trip to Poland should be complete without a plate of boiled or fried pierogies. Krakow, often called "the next Prague", is a bit more expensive than the rest of Eastern Europe but it still offers up some pretty good deals even in the central parts of the city. For example, U Babci Maliny, a small chain of traditional Polish restaurants, sells a massive plate Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-21674841580271518962008-05-20T13:15:00.006-04:002008-05-25T09:11:42.740-04:00From Bed to WurstEm and I didn't sleep much our last night in Barcelona. The alarm went off around 4, and I rolled out of the top bunk. We had a 5a bus to Girona and then a flight to Bremen where our friend Wiebke, or VB as we call her, lives. We also had to worry about our weight. You see, Ryan Air, while cheaper than the average night in a hostel for those that book ahead, also charges you Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915029056649702478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20718372.post-82140245497317095512008-05-20T03:48:00.008-04:002008-05-22T03:34:16.346-04:00Auschwitz TourThis is the 3rd Concentration Camp I have visited (the others being Mauthausen and Dachau) but it was by far the worst, both in terms of its emotional impact and the nature of the camp. Like before, the feeling is undeniably haunting but contrary to the previous visits, the weather was appropriately raw; around 50F and raining. I think God was crying along with us.There is a Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667210134343117739noreply@blogger.com1