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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

La Rambla

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Jun 30 2010, 05:54 PM

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jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

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Toulon, France

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For our last night in Barcelona we decided to explore La Rambla (in detail) for a last time. We bought a number of small souvenirs at the countless stalls set up all along La Rambla and were entertained by a number of street performers. The performer that really stood out was a guy, all dressed in gold, that posed as “a golden statue that moves.” His expressions were really excellent and Janno spared him a Euro or two. The artists that painted using only spray paint and some iron tools were also impressive. We also walked into a huge fruit/spice market called St Joseph La Baqueria. All the fruit and spices looked wonderful and we bought 2 tubs of mixed fruit for 2 euros and 100% fruit juice (very delicious). The fruit was not that good and the Dragon fruit was the strangest looking fruit I have every seen (check out the photo of Riana eating a slice). After eating the shaky fruit we sat down at a street restaurant and ordered 1.5l of ice cold Sangria! It tasted awesome! We also ordered a pizza as filler on the side. And that concludes our Barcelona and Spain experience… OLE!

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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...

	48. Aida and the catacombs Jul 16 2010, 02:46 PMRome, Italy9 photos Our first mission for the day (besides the getting to Rome part) was to see the catacombs and the second to watch Aida at the Baths of Caracalla. On our way to the bus station we saw our first accident in Italy (really a surprising first considering the way they drive). I heard a hard sound and...

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