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Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South Africa 2010!D-Day: A beginning Eastfield to Istandbul: Grumpyness at 30000ft Turkish shuttle Istanbul by day Istanbul by night Long walk to freedom Lisbon walking tour Discovering Lisbon Exploring Sintra Fado’s night out The rain in Spain falls mainly on my brain A day in medieval Toledo Madrid on a Sunday Flamenco por una buena causa To Barcelona Barcelona! Barcelona!Gaudi in the morning Olympic in the afternoon Chilling in Barcelona La Rambla To Nice A Nice night Relax, take it Eze Monaco in an afternoon Chilling in Nice To Venice Our first day in Venice The attempt at Venice night photos The second day in Venice The last night in Venice The Farewell Frenzy in Firenze Exploring Florence Conquering the Dome Conquering the Torra Lucca, I am your father Picnic in Pisa A day in Pisa When in Rome…Ancient scorching Rome Welcome to Naples (and its crazy traffic)A day in Capri Ancient scorching Pompeii To Santa Fortunata Chilling in Sorrento Back to Rome Aida and the catacombs The Vatican in a flash The End

jnroux

Western Europe 2010

Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South...

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Jun 11 2010, 12:41 PM

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Somerset West, South Africa

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Greenpoint Stadium, South Africa

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I'll start this trip journal with an entry about my country, South Africa, since we are hosting the biggest sporting event in the world (i.e. the Soccer World Cup) and we are proud of it! Riana, Lida and I arrived at Century City's park & drive where we met Jouba, Lize & Jacqueline and practised our Vuvuzela a bit. For uninformed readers, the Vuvuzela is a South African soccer fan instrument that looks like this: ======<() It is louder than a chainsaw at 127 decibels... awesome! From the park & drive we travelled via a shuttle bus to the new Century City Metro station. Unfortunately we just missed the 13:08 train and had to wait an hour for the next train. That gave Riana, Lize and Jacqueline time to practice the Diski dance. The train trip to Cape Town was enjoyable and everyone had a lot of GEES! From the Cape Town station I took my first ever taxi "trip" to the V&A Waterfront! What a great experience: cheap (R3.50) and quick (4min15sec). A 100% improvement when compared to, hmmm, let's call it my previous taxi interactions. At the Waterfront we were "lucky" to find a seat at a (not so cheap) restaurant: the Greek Fisherman. The plan was to watch the Bafana Bafana vs Mexico game here... however their DSTV setup malfunctioned during our national anthem and the Greek Fisherman did not care! NOT SO AJOBA! At this stage desperate times required desperate measures! For some reason the security guard at the Vodashop let us pass and we basically invaded their floor space... they had a nice LCD. After Tsabalala's goal the Vodashop employee's and customers united and there was (again) a lot of GEES! After the Bafana game we made our way towards the Green point stadium. Unfortunately, everyone arrive at the (smaller) side gates at the same time and it took us at least an hour to get in! We met up with King Attie and his two Vuvuzela's. Thereafter there was a lot of awesomeness: (1) the stadium was awesome (lots of pretty lights and fancy cameras), (2) our seats were awesome (11th row from the front), (3) the GEES was awesome (especially the Mexican-wave as performed by a crowd of 64100), (4) the hot-chocolate was awesome (thanks Lida) and finally (5) the score was awesome (France 0, Uruguay 0). That means that Bafana Bafana is now on top of the log in Pool A! AJOBA! After the game we decided to walk back to the Cape Town station (about 8km according to Lida... about 2.4km in reality). We took the train back to Century City and the Polo back home. And that concludes this prologue: WE FELT IT, WE WERE THERE!

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	50. The End Jul 17 2010, 05:26 PMCape Town, South Africa4 photos Our flight in Istanbul was delay by 1 hour and 45 minutes AND our aircraft dated out of the 70s. No in-flight entertainment, warn-out chairs and very shaky (physically shaking) overhead compartments. Regardless of these things, we were still going home and it felt good. There was a lot of Afrikaans...

	49. The Vatican in a flash Jul 17 2010, 09:56 AMCape Town, South Africa11 photos For our last day in Rome we decided to visit the Vatican Museum, since we did not get to visit it during our previous trip to Rome (refer to Journal entry 41). Fortunately the closest Metro to the Vatican was also on our Metro line and we were “there” at about 8:55. We then stood in the longest...

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