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Back in US, Unfortunatly!

smacneill — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:18:09 -0400

Ok, crazy flight from Iceland to NY. We were supposed to arrive at 7:00pm EST and ended up arriving at 11:30pm EST. Upon entry into US customs I get my bags checked and they find Absinthe. Now this is a testament to the intellectual genius of US Homeland S ...

Back in Berlin, Germany

smacneill — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:49:24 -0400

Ok I am back in Berlin and after 3 days without a shower I feel great. I somewhat got used to non-western based society and feel like I am in disney land right now.

Berlin is a killer city though.

Tomorrow I start my journey home. I can't ...

Kiev, Day 3

smacneill — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:09:15 -0400

Got back into Kiev, Ukraine this morning. Found some tasty internet at Borispol.

Heading to Prague, Czech in about 40 minutes then to Berlin, Germany from there.

Ukraine is insane, nobody speaks english and they look at you like there is so ...

Kiev, Ukraine

smacneill — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:10:44 -0400

Ok, I found internet at the Peace Corps office in Kiev so I will post more shizzy.

We arrived in Bucharest, Romania at 6:30am on Sunday and out Train our of Bucharest was delayed 3 hours. So now our trip time was increased to 33 hours.
Buch ...

Brasov, Day 2

smacneill — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:21:02 -0400

Went to Bran Castle today.

Leaving for Bucharest in less than 3 hours then heading to Kiev, Ukraine from there. Total travel time is 30 hours. Suck!

I will not be online till I get back to Berlin on Wednesday the ninth.

Date: 08.05. ...

Brasov, Romania

smacneill — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:05:14 -0400

Yesterday Beth and I walked across Széchenyi bridge and up to Castle Hill. From here we got a killer view of Budapest. Then we walked along Vaci Utca and Beth did some shopping at H&M. We spent the rest of the afternoon at Széchenyi Gyógyfürdő.

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Budapest, day 2

smacneill — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:32:04 -0400

Real fast..

Train ride from prague to budapest was retarded. We were in a sleeper car and our compartment was about 6x6 with 8ft ceiling and slept 6 in bunks that were 3 high. Beth and I had the top 2 bunks. and there were 4 other people in there. ...

Budapest, Hungary

smacneill — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:06:28 -0400

We are in Budapest, Hungary. The ride here was madd crazy.

Will write more when I can.

Date: 08.02.2006
GPS: N/A

Berlin, Day 2

smacneill — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:58:15 -0400

Visited Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Wall, Holocost Memorial, Reichstag, Holtzheim University (site of Nazi book burning), and Checkpoint Charlie. We walked all over the center of Berlin today and saw madd shizzy.

I realized that I forgot my cable for m ...

Berlin, day 1

smacneill — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:25:26 -0400

Got into Berlin yesterday afternoon and met Beth at the airport. Beth looks great! I expected her to look older and more Russian, but she looks the same as she did when she left. We rode around on the train for a while and dropped off my stuff at the hoste ...

Reykjavik, Iceland

smacneill — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:24:14 -0400

Its cold here! Why can't it be cold all the time in the US.

I'll hook up with Beth in 4 more hours.

Date: 07.30.2006 03:20 EST
GPS: N/A

Welcome

smacneill — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:46:12 -0400

This is my travel journal. Here I will rant and cry about my travels in Eastern Europe with my sister.

I will post updates with pictures as often as I can. Wifi may be hard to come across as I move further into Eastern Europe. Though there is always ...