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Let us reflect...

things written in my sketch book during in the trip:

Day 1- arrive in Frankfurt 11 am, mad dash to 11:43 train to Amsterdam :) Yet to sleep...

320 euro

Things that are true about Amsterdam:

1. There are many bicycles and you can get run over

2. You can buy a beer for a Euro and sit in the park. Beer is cheaper than water.

3. They do in fact smoke weed. Big Fat Js.

4. Everyone is super stylish

5. is over run with Dutch boys on friday nights

6. Boys hollar at us in languages we don't understand

7. All the words are unreasonably long and hard to say

8. tiny, steep stairs, no soap in bathrooms

9. The graffiti is more thought out than ours

10. And then he found color

11. There are many languages

Things that are true about Paris

1. it rains. c'est ne pas une problem

2. french is beautiful and paris is romantic

3. Frog legs and tar tar don't agree with Claire's belly

4. The louvre hits you like a ton of bricks

Madrid:

PRADO... stunning

Tiny little sandwiches

beautiful weather

Oh yeah, contemporary art...

Juan Munoz and Gonzalez retrospective at the Reigna Sofia

"Es la mujer que cona be d futuro" It is the women making/changing the future

Barcelona is a different place

it changes...

Description of parade:

fruits and vegetables pinned to suits, men in shiny shirts, fros, big glasses, wheelding giant wooden axes + ships, little kids dancing, collecting candy, bands battling, rubber chickens and sparklers, trumpet players smoking cigarettes, fun and joy, triumph, humor, bounty.

We are trapped in a Barcelona beach town! No Trains, No Bus, Only Death!

FUCK YOU VATICAN

"tomorrow we go to pompei... then we go to milan, then Frankfurt and home... I could go home"

Urban/Pastoral relationship in Italy. a beautiful thing.

And then we get home. The end.

...we did it...

::happy dance::

Train Information

May 20th

Arrive at airport by 7:00 pm

Depart NYC at 9:10 pm

May 21st

Arrive in Frankfurt at 11:15 am

Train from Frankfurt (Flug FE) to Amsterdam (CS) depart 1:43pm arrive 5:25

we want to catch this one because it is direct!

Reserve amsterdam/paris train

May 22nd

Amsterdam

May 23rd

Amsterdam

May 24th

Train from Amsterdam (CS) to Paris (Nord) depart 9:26 am arrive 1:35 pm or depart 1:26 pm arrive 5:35 pm (direct trains)

May 25th

Paris

May 26th

Paris

May 27th

Overnight Train from Paris (Austerlitz) to Madrid (Chamartin)

Departs at 7:46 pm

May 28th

Arrive in Madrid at 9:10am

Reserve Madrid / Barcelona train

May 29th

Madrid

May 30th 

Madrid

May 31st

Train from Madrid (Atocha) to Barcelona (Sants) (departs every hour) depart 10:30 am arrive 1:27 pm

June 1st

Barcelona

June 2nd

Barcelona

June 3rd

Ferry from Barcelona to Rome

Depart 10:15 pm

June 4th

Arrive in Civitavecchia  at 6:45 pm

Train from Civitavecchia to Rome (depart every 20 mins) 7:22 pm  arrive in Rome Termini 8:14 pm

Reserve Rome / Milan Train

June 5th

Rome

June 6th

Rome

June 7th

Rome

June 8th

Train from Rome (Termini) to Milan (Centrale) (depart every 15 - 35 mins) Depart 11:30 am arrive 3:29 pm

Explore Milan a bit

Over night train from Milan (Centrale) to Frankfurt (Main)

Departs at 9:10 pm

June 9th 

Arrive in Frankfurt at 5:45 am

Sleep

What is there to do in Frankfurt?

June 10th

Arrive at airport by 6 am

Depart 8:30 am

Arrive in NYC at 10:45 am

Getting to Pompeii

I'm looking into how we're getting our asses to Pompeii and heres what i've found

Theres a bus we can take:

http://www.enjoyrome.com/shuttle_tour/pompeii.html

that will cost us 50euros each.  Does not include entrance to Pompeii

The bus ride will take 3hrs each way.

Theres a line of trains we can take:

We take the Rail Europe from Rome to Naples and then the Circumvesuviana train to Pompeii station SCAVI VILLA MISTERI.  The Circimvesuviana runs about every half hour all day.

I did all the searching for us to go to Pompeii on Saturday, but the same train times run all week.

Train 9371 645am @ Roma Termini, June 6th

838am @ Napoli Piazza Gar

Train 9378 922pm @ Napoli Piazza Gar, June 6th

1115pm @ Roma Termini

Based on the readings I did everyone says that you can't even begin to scratch the surface of Pompeii in a day, it really is that big.  Everyone recommends at least two days, but screw them, i say we do our damnist to absorb what we can of Pompeii in one day and then go from there.

Schedule draft

Hey folks,

This is what I have for our schedule:

May 20th: Flight from NYC (9:10 PM)

21st: Arrive in Frankfurt (11:15 AM)
Train: Frankfurt to Amsterdam
Hostel: Stayokay Amsterdam Stadsdoelen:
Kloveniersburgwal 97
1011 KB Amsterdam
tel +31 (0)20 624 68 32

24th: Train: Amsterdam to Paris
Hostel: Absolute Hostel
1 rue de la Fontaine au Roi
75011 PARIS
tel +33(0)1 47 00 47 00

27th: Overnight Train: Paris to Madrid
28th: Arrive in Madrid
Hostel: Barbieri International Hostel
C/ Barbieri 15
28004 Madrid, Spain
tel +34 915 310 258

31st: Train: Madrid to Barcelona
Hostel: Itaca Hostel
C/ Ripoll 21
08002 - Barcelona (Spain)
tel +34 933 019 751

3rd: Overnight Ferry: Barcelona to Civitavecchia Italy (10:15 PM)
4th: Arrive in Civitavecchia (6:45 PM) Train to Rome
Hostel: The Beehive
Via Turati Filippo, 128
00185 Roma (RM), Italy
tel +39 06 45426569

8th: Train: Rome to Milan, Overnight train: Milan to Frankfurt (9:10 PM)

9th: Arrive in Frankfurt (5:45 AM)
Hostel: Frankfurt Hostel
Kaiser Str 74
60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
tel: + 49 69 24 75 13 0

10th: Flight from Frankfurt (8:30am), Arrive in NYC (10:45am)

I still need: our reserved train times (lisa), t's emergency euro #, and anything else that should be included that I may have forgotten.

some weather predictions... prepare to layer

Amsterdam

Sunny and 65-70

Cooler at night

Paris

Sometimes rainy

70

Cooler at night

Madrid

Warm! high 80s

sun screen + sunglasses 

Barcelona

75 - 80

possible showers

Rome

75 - 80

remember to pack good layering clothes!