Berlin

We made it safely back to Berlin. It is a beautiful city. Verz (excuse the z and y mix ups) clean and wide open streets. We are very excited for the next few days, we hear they have a lot of beer here. But really, the shopping is really what is exciting us! More later!

Prague

Roma was fantastic. We saw so many amazing things! We went to the colosseum and the Roman forum, the Vatican museum and St. Peter's! There simply was not enough time. We flew into Berlin last night and arrived at, without a doubt, the nicest hostel we've stayed in yet. We then took the train this morning to Prague, which is beautiful and has plenty of jewelry stores (:s)
After this we're back to Berlin for a few days then onwards. We're getting towards only two weeks left! Can't believe it! Tho I certainly have enough pictures to prove all the places we went!
I'm so tired right now, no real sleep since before the game in Athens!

Laundry in Bari

We are currently doing much needed laundry in Bari while waiting for our train that leaves later this afternoon to Rome. We just spent 16 hours on a ferry from Athens to Bari. It was a very annoying and uncomfortable ride. The ferry was full of Milan and Liverpool fans, who were mostly middle-aged drunk, stinky, loud, rude men. As fate would have it, we were assigned seats in an enclosed room with these prize fellows, and we were basically the only females. Well, the early part of the ferry ride was okay, as the majority of our cabin mates were succeeding in killing any of their remaining brain cells in the various bars (it was a very large ferry), and so there was temporarily some peace and quiet. However, their money seemed to run out faster than we had anticipated, and we were once again graced with their presence. I wish the ventilation system had been better and that there had been a mandatory spray-down with Febreeze prior to entrance into the room.
Oh well, it is nice to breath in fresh air again! We are really looking forward to Rome and the Vatican tomorrow...Michelangelo, here we come! We are also excited to get some much needed sleep on our 6 hour train ride today!

Picture explanations

Okie, in order:

1) On beach on Mykonos
2) Same beach on Mykonos
3) More Mykonos
4) Sangria in Barcelona (yikes!)
5) Beach in Nice -- very rocky
6) On the Dome in Florence -- quite a climb!
7) Da Vinci perpetual motion machine (coool!)
8) The Acropolis
9) Huge pictures in Louvre
10) Huge pictures in Louvre
11) Outside the Louvre -- eating lunch
12) Me and Geometry! It's a woman apparently! Hooray!
13) Rachelle and I in the catacombs of Paris
14) Van Gogh in D'Orsay
15) Versailles paintings
16) Versailles
17) Rachelle resorting to canabilisim in the Louvre
18) My fave painting in the louvre
19) Mont. St. Michel
20) More Mont St. Michel
21) Rachelle and I dancing while driving to 'This is Why I'm Hot'
22) American Cemetary in Normandy
23) Caen

Liverpool vs. Milan!!

We're here in Athens for the Champions League Final. The city is awash in red (not many milan fans in sight)
It is amazing how many fans are here, the sea of red shirts, hats, backpacks and just crazy scarfs is amazing. Rachelle and I joke that we'll be easy to find as we're two of five females here wearing the appropriate shirts (out of what, the 50,000 men?)
We had a great time yesterday running around town looking at Liverpool gear, watching crazy singing and then we went out with Chris and his friend Chris and we were out near Syntagama square (where all the Liverpool stuff is) and we were there from about 12:30-2:30 with all these (very drunk) liverpool fans singing (no shoving, no arguing, just singing) It took us another hour to walk back to our hotel (with our two non-liverpool fan, no knowledge of football escorts) with all sorts of liverpool fans singing and cheering.
I've never seen anything like this, it's just insane the way these people love their teams, we're pretty sure people camped out in the square with their flags! We've heard tickets are going 2500 euros in some places, but we met a man last night who got a normally 200 euro ticket for 400 euros, so perhaps there is hope. One can only dream!
The swag is selling like nothing I've ever seen. The Brits drink like fish (we can walk around with open Heinekens everywhere, and let me tell you the square was covered with them!) Yesterday it rained at like 10pm, we arrived at the square (and it's a big square) at 12:30 and the entire square was sticky. How does that happen!??!?!? It's weird to walk by police in riot gear while drinking a beer! But the amount of money flowing into the city (and yes, they're dropping pounds, not euros) is crazy. I'll take plenty of pictures and videos! Watch for us on TSN :P

Photos

Kate and Rachelle asked me to Post these...

So I am!

Naxos

We're safely in Naxos!
Mykonos was soo beautiful. This island is bigger but quieter. There's lots of temples and forts to see!
We're hoping to tour around and just laze the next two or three days so we should have a good time
More to come later!