You won't beleive

So before I tell you the big news I'll pick up where I left off in my last post of Salzburg. It was a week ago so the details are not quite so clear, but I'll do my best. The girls went to the Sound of Music tour and I just bummed around town. After they got back we went to the Monestary to watch the soccer game. Awesome time. After the games we went to the outside area where we hung out for a while. Got some kasekrainer and some ribs, along with Augustiner beer. Which, by the way, is the best beer you can get in Munich and Salzburg and they only sell it in that area of the world. So while we are sitting around, there are these three older guys at the table next to us. They are about our parents ages. Well, one of them had this small dog. Predictably, the girls wanted to pet it and went over there and started up a conversation. During the conversation it came out that I was from Louisiana and went to LSU. Well, the guy with the dog said it was the same for him. So he asked my name and didn't know me. Here is the BIG news, he said that I probably knew who he was. He said, "my name is David Duke." So I was like, "oh, yeah, ok." We finished up the conversation and left and I filled the girls in on who he was. It was crazy. He even asked us to come to Moscow and hang out with him for the weekend. That is where he lives now. Just to remind you of a few things, go to his website which is his name .com. He also owns another website that you can link to from there that has an even better name.

The next day we got up early and left for London.

Creepy

How many people do you know sleeping in a cemetary, above ground? 

The Hofbrauhaus

This is it boys. Major amounts of beer was consumed here. 

Salzburg

We arrived in Salzburg. Just walked around the city for a little while and went up to the castle. Beck, this place was way more packed than last time. Also, the credit goes to you on this, the girls consider it one of their favorite cities after only just half a day. Zach, you would have appreciated this, there were soccer fans everwhere. The Germany v. Argentina game was on, which was a great game if you missed it, and there was this GIANT tv set up in the town square. There were thousands of people there watching the game. I thought I was back at a LSU game.

After the game and dinner we went to one of me, Beck, Brooke's favorite spots. The Monestary beer garden. Which when we went last year we kept using this small entrance that led us through the Monestary and it seemed quite secret. Well, I discovered the main entrance and it was enormous. Also, last year it was quiet and relaxing. This year, the whole outside was filled and those big empty rooms from last year were also filled. That combined with the Germany win made it a really good time.

Today I'm just hanging around town since the girls went on the Sound of Music tour. I might take some Austians on in some chess down in the city center.

Asian Invasion

While waiting for the girls to meet up with me in Munich I found some Asian girls trying to sneak into my room, so I had to kick them out. They thought that was the room they were supposed to be staying in, but there were no beds left and it was only a triple. I tried to explain it to them but they just stared at me like I was a circus act. I finally convinced one of them to go downstairs and talk to the guy who, like I thought, said he made a mistake and gave them the wrong key.

Münchin Part 2

So the girls finally showed up. About 2 hours late. In the meantime I found some things to occupy my time. One of which you can read in "Asian Invasion." I also met up with my English and Australian buddies again and drank with them till the girls got back.

After the girls got back, we went to the Hofbrau House again that night and drank there for a little while, then went to some casino. I don't know if you remember how there were these painted lions everywhere Beck. But, these crazy Australians kept going up to this Hotel nearby and would slap the lion in front of it until the desk guy would come out and chase them down the street. They kept doing it over and over again. It was probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

The next day we went to this market for lunch. It was near some big blue and white pole. I don't think we went there last year Beck, but you, Danny, or Adam may have been there before. It was pretty cool. After we ate we caught the train to Salzburg.

Münchin

So we got in the first night. We went to a restaurant and watched the World Cup while we ate. We were all extremely tired but we decided to go out anyway. We played drinking games with this group of people from London and Ireland. You will be happy to know they play the same game we do, where every card means something different. They call it "Kings." So we played the drinking games then went to the Hofbreau House. Sorry if I spelled it wrong. We then went to some bar that the girls wanted to go to, and to my disbelief they didn't serve beer. So I got a Coco Loco. HUGE mistake. We then went back to the Hofbreau House and shut the thing down. On our way back we were watching a street performer, who kissed one of the girls I am with. She was extremely pissed. While sitting in the group watching, I ran into Laura Futch. Crazyness. I then went back to the hostel for a well deserved pass out.

Day 2. We just did the sites. Since two of us had already done the tours we were pretty much Adrienne's personal tour guides. That night we went on a pub crawl. Another HUGE mistake. Which we were late to, because the girls had to sneek out to buy some shoes. I brought the only girls so I had to put up with all the dude's hanging around us and being nice to me to get to the girls. One of them even bought my beers, so I can't complain too much. Pub Crawl last year: lots of hot girls, all my friends from LSU, around 6 different pubs and beer gardens. Pub Crawl this year: I brought the best looking girls, no friends from LSU, and only 2 beer gardens. ONLY 2 beer gardens, any less and they wouldn't have been able to call it a pub "crawl." After the pub crawl we ran into out buddies from the night before. Drank with them the rest of the night. Beck, you will be happy to know I imparted my knowledge to all kind of people of the cheers you showed me. But no glass breaking this year. At least not on my behalf. Some guy(fag) kept telling everyone that the glasses were thick so they wouldn't break. Having broken one last year on accident I proceeded to inform everyone otherwise. So, wanting to prove me wrong, the dumbass proceeced to break TWO glasses. Dumbass!! This was the quality of people I had to put up with on the pub crawl. Anyway, we hung out with our buddies afterward and had a really good time last night.

Day 3. On Beck's suggestion, I went on a City Walking Tour. It was decent. The girls had gone to the castles, which I had already done, so I passed on them. I met these guys from Georgia, who went to UGA. And guess what we talked about all day, football. Now I'm back at the hostel, waiting on the girls to get back, who are as usual, late.

Back!!!

So another summer starts in Europe. The first day started a little smoother this year. No luggage lost! Just got to Munich, going to get something to eat.

Terrorists

Yes. I'm still alive. I'm in London right now for the terrorist attacks. I'm letting everyone know I'm alive because I know how little sleep you would be getting not knowing what happened.

Reading

Just so we can get an idea who is reading the blog, if you haven't made a comment then just make one for this post.

Amsterdam

Material too expicit to be shown over the internet. You will have to receive the story from one of us verbally.

Prague

I will start this off by saying that Prague might be my favorite city in Europe. It is definitely the coolest looking city. There's really not a huge night scene in Prague besides this one club that is 6 stories tall. Chris and Brooke only stayed with me 2 of the 3 nights in Prague. They went to this place Cesky Krumlov (where old couples go) for a few nights. The first night in Prague we met back up with our LSU friends and went out with them. The first full day that we were there we went to Terezin which was a concentration camp. It was really big and we didn't get to see all of it. It was a unique experience. We got back from the concentration camp and grabbed a bite to eat at Hotel U Prince (Strickland's recommendation). It was really good. After that Brooke got a little tired and went to sleep while Beck and I visited the 6 story club. It was really cool, everyone there was speaking different languages, but only 4 of the 6 stories were open. The next day is when Brooke and Beck left. I was by myself so I did a tour of the city. I got to the tour group and these cool girls from Georgia I had met the day before were also on the tour. We all had a good time on the tour and afterward I met up with them and we went to the superclub. We stayed there a really long time and I'm not quite sure what time it was when we got home. The next day I said bye to my favorite city and left for Amsterdam. It should be noted that Prague is a cheap city, except for our rooms everything was cheaper by at least 20% I would say. We probably could have found cheaper accomodations but we wanted to stay in the center of town.

Munchen

So Munich, known as Munchen in Germany, was a good time. We stayed at this place called Wombat's which was where all the other backpackers in Munich stay. Right away when we get there we run into some old friends. DJ Daly, Adam Polozola, Laurie Pierce, Erin Despot, and Lauren (sorry I don't know your last name). We hung out with them the whole time we were in Munich and one night in Prague. The first night in Munich we went to this beer garden. I can't remember the name but it wasn't that great. Nothing else really went on that night and we went home early. The next day Brooke, our LSU buddies and I went on the Mike's bike tour (the tour for the cool people) and Beck went on a walking tour (the one for the dorks who want to learn about the history). Mike's bike tour was great, I jumped in this river and floated down it while passing a lot of naked old men who were sunbathing in the English Gardens. It was very disturbing to say the least. Mike's Bike tour was in partnership with this pub crawl that everyone decided to go on besides Brooke and Beck. I had heard rumors that Danny had taken down 5 liters of beer in one night and I figured that I should take a crack at the record. I made it to a documented 5 liters. The pub crawl gave you free shots and I felt it was my duty to help them out with getting rid of them. I can't remember what really happened after a certain time after the pub crawl started but I apparently got sent home along with these 5 girls who also got a little to drunk. So, maybe I broke Danny's record, maybe I didn't, WHO KNOWS. I do know that we at least tied. The next day everyone went to the Ludwig castles. One of which is the disney castle. The one Cindarella lived in. It was pretty cool but a very long hike and everyone was tired by the time we got back. Chris and I went to a huge beer garden that night and closed the place down. Between the three of us, by the time we finished Munich, we had frequented 5 beer gardens and 10 bars in a mere 3 days. The next day we left for Prague.

Awards

I have decided to start an awards section. I will try to update these often. These are the dumbass awards:

Beck - Funneling beer through the schlong bong (use your imaginiation) without hesitaion.
Beck - Letting his bag get stolen, which included his passport, camera, and eurail pass, while he was stuffing his face with a hamburger at McDonalds.
Beck - Going on the "Sounds of Music"tour instead of the Stiegl brewery tour with me.

Me - Telling everyone the wrong metro ticket to buy and getting us a 400 kc fine (16 dollars).
Me - Booking the plane tickets to Dublin out of Brussels instead of Asmterdam. Making us ride a train for 2 extra hours.

Brooke - Having to eat a McFlurry causing us to miss a ferry we really needed to get on.
Brooke - Having to eat a sandwich causing us to miss the short line into a church in Venice.
Brooke - Spilling entire bottle of wine on Beck's bag and her towel.

Jeremy - Buying many towels.
Jeremy - Stealing shoes on the ferry.

GondoLOVE

I have to say that I was forced into this blog as I believe that we should be exploring Europe rather than writing to those of you that are trying to make the most out of a boring summer in the BR. But anyways, here's one for the ladies or any fellow who likes getting kisses. We arrived at Venice after over 24 hours of traveling. Right away, I fell in love with the romantic city and instantly wanted to ride the famous gondolas. However, being frugal, my dream quickly faded when I realized the going price was 100 euros. With a little luck and my bargaining man beside me, the three amigos (yes, Neil came along with the couple) took a ride under the Bridge of Sighs (or what I like to call - the kissing bridge). It was the best thing we did all trip.

Ok, enough of the lovey dovey stuff. We meet up with Kathryn Beck and her friends that are studying abroad in Florence and enjoyed pizza and wine near the famous St. Mark's square. The next day we explored the city which is unique and beautiful, played with the pigeons and toured the church. All in all it was one of my favorite places filled with great company, good food (ice cream) and romance. We then left the wine country that I loved for the beer drinking countries in the North where I am now once again just "one of the boys" and my chances of finding another city of love is slim to none.

Comments

I'm glad to see that everyone is having fun with the blog. Even though it may be at my expense (or Danny's). I had decided not to mention too many encounters I have with girls past Rome to cut down on the jokes. We will be coming with a big update soon which will include Corfu, Venice, Salzburg, and Munich. Also, so you can sleep tonight Danny, this message wil be posted around 6:30 PM here. Thanks

Ios Ios Ios!!!

We put Ios on our itenerary thinking it was going to be a good place to party and meet people, and it was. We have plenty of X-Rated stories but we're going to try and keep this message short enough to read in one day. With Danny and Adam's recomendation, we stayed at Far Out. This place was where everyone came during the day to drink and lay out. Our accomodations were great. It was the cheapest place we stayed and the nicest. Ios lived up to its reputation with a long street of bars and topless girls everywhere at the beach. Our most frequent bars were the Fun Pub, Red Bull Bar, Disco 69, and the Slammer Bar. The Fun Pub had the largest jinga game I have ever seen. At its highest point it was as tall as Brooke. The pieces were the size of bricks. This place was usually our first stop of the night where we kicked things off. After an hour or so we would move to the strip of bars that would put Lafayette to shame. The strip was littered with hot girls, aka. Floor Whores, who were apparently paid to hit on the guys and keep them at the bar. Jeremy and I fell victim to their seductions once or twice. We didn't realize till after leaving Ios that about 80% of the girls out were floor whores.

One of the days Jeremy and I heard of a soccer tournament going on. We scouted around for a team to join and found a group of Irish guys to join. I know we all speak english but I could have sworn they were speaking a different language. We lost in the quarterfinals, but put on a good show. We also got sponsored by one of the bars, Sweet Irish Dream Bar, which was our team name. We got these cool shirts because of it.

Ios was just one big blur. Lots of music, lots of girls, lots of partying.

The Italian Islands

We went to two islands while we were in Italy - Ischia and Capri. The first thing we learned was that the Italians love to line dance. In Ischia Brooke and Beck scored free passes to the thermal baths which they claim were glorious (they really were). Brooke continued her trend of spilling things on the trip. She managed to spill a bottle of wine, one of the big ones, all over Beck's bag in a room that was designated no alcohol by the hostel. We sat out at the beach a lot on these islands. Jeremy can't seem to sit still when he's at the beach. He always has to be in the water or swimming somewhere or talking to someone. He made Beck and I swim out to this rock. We were dodging sea urchins and jagged rocks. I managed to slice my foot in two different places pretty bad. I probably needed stiches but since I'm a hardass I wrapped it in duct tape. Beck managed to sneak by with minor scratches. At night we frequented the Oasis where we were privy to all the secret Italian line dances. We will be coming back to the States with a few new moves. The Oasis was also home to the best pasta I have ever had, the Chef Petro Special.

As for Capri, we actually stayed in this town Anacapri. We stayed at this hostel Bussolo de Hermes where we were helped by the lovely Rita. Jeremy got hugged, patted on the stomach, and slapped in the balls by Rita's husband Chiro, who is also an expert back alley driver. Capri is home to the Blue Grotto. Apparently you have to pay around 10 bucks to get a guy to taxi you in there with a boat, only to spend a few minutes in there, a BIG rip-off. We found out the insider information that you can swim in before the boat guys get there. We woke up early the next morning and went only to find a bunch of Asians at the drop point where you get into the water. We were in a rush so we threw our shirts off and jumped in paying no attention to the envious slant eyes watching us. We swam in and it was really cool, especially because we didn't pay. When we swam out the asians decided that it looked safe because the stupid Americans made it back alive, so we decided to act like we were scared and started screaming "Godzilla" scaring the Asians. The Asians who were all female asked us to be their escorts but the time was running out before the boat guys showed up and we had to get out of dodge. We spent the rest of the day at Marina Picola. We rented some kayaks there and sat on the beach. Chris had to do all the work in his canoe despite his still recovering wrist injury. The plus side, Brooke got a nice even tan.

Focker Out.

When in Rome

So i get into Rome, with of course, no backpack. We immediately go sightseeing. But thats not what you want to hear about. When I get to Rome all I hear about is this bar Julius Caesar and its disco. We went to the bar that night but the disco wasn't open that night, in fact, it wasn't open the whole time we were in Rome. We drank anyway and started meeting some girls. I ended up pairing off with this mexican girl named Monica. She barely spoke any English. Chris and Brooke went home early and Jeremy and I stayed with the girls. I'm not really sure what happened from there. We might have made out, might not have. Who knows. We did meet this 50 year old guy from Australia though and Jeremy kicked this box that a homeless guy was sleeping in.

The next night we went to Campo de Fiori. This is like the tigerland of Rome. The bar where eveyone hangs out at was the drunken ship. We met a ton of people there but the drinks were somewhat more expensive and we had to take a taxi there. There are also a lot of street vendors. They keep trying to sell you roses for like 5 Euro a piece so I offered 2 cents to a guy and he threw some of the rose in my face. It was an ok night.

The rest of the week we went to Julius Caesar and hung out with these girls from Texas we met. They were pretty cool but nothing happened between us. At the end of Rome I finally got my bag and left for Ischia.

A Glorious Beginning

Hey everyone. We are almost halfway through our trip now and have decided to start a blog with our pictures if possible. So far we have been to Rome, Ischia, Capri, Naples/Pompei, Athens, Ios, and Santorini. We will try and catch everyone up on what has gone on as well as post what will be going on.