Sunday, June 11, 2006

Our first video

Well, sorry about the delay, but we finally have our first video posted for all of you to look at. I had some issues about finding a website where I could post material with copyright material in it. It ultimatly ended up on youtube.com. I shall keep the links to all of our videos posted on the video portion of this website, located on the left side of the screen.

This was actually shot over a month ago in Sintra, Portugal. It´s a small city, and a world heritage site just outside of Lisbon, accesable by commuter rail. Click the link to enjoy our first video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5J7EMWLgWQ

MrRyan

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Windows on the World

The Windows on the World section, in which I post the views from every window that I have stayed in, has been updated. Go ahead, take a look!






Indigo Youth Hostel, Valencia, Spain

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Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Results are in!

We interrupt this blog for some late breaking news! The Results from the the World Trippers´election are in. Let us not waste time, here are the results.

Granada - 2 first place votes, 1 second place vote
Seville - 1 first place vote, 1 third place vote, 1 fourth place vote
Lisboa - 2 second place votes, one fourth place vote
Madrid - 2 second place votes
Valencia - 1 fourth place vote


No hanging chads here! It´s Granada in a landslide, with 66% of the first place votes, beating Seville´s 33%. As of tomorrow, Granada is the home of portion #1.

Campione, Campione, Olé! Olé! Olé!

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Election Night

Recap: The three of us have been traveling from city to city, to find the best place to settle down for 1-2 months on the Iberian peninsula. In every city we have been investigating numerous factors, such as youth population, relative ease of housing, nightlife, cultural activities, touristiness or lack thereoff, and general vibe. Here is the list of cities that are on the ballot as to where we could live.
  • Barcelona (Nithin only)
  • Valencia (Nithin only)
  • Madrid
  • Salamanca, Spain
  • Porto, Portugal
  • Lisboa, Portugal
  • Seville
  • Cadiz, Spain
  • Torre del Mar (Ryan only)
  • Marbella
  • Malaga
  • Granada
Tonight! is election night! The three of us will go into a Tapas bar, sit down, all write down our ballots secretly (detailed ballets with no hanging chads) and then choose the city. Where will we live? Check back in 7 hours - that´s right, 7 hours - to find the results posted almost live on this website.

Where will the World Trippers´ be for the next month and a half? Tonight, the long awaited question will finally be answered. Stay tuned!

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Friday, May 12, 2006

Look


So you see why we haven't posted often?

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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Porto and Port

So the main reason we don´t photos yet is because I have yet to find free wireless internet (though we have hardly looked) and all my photos are on my laptop, so without that... no photos!

Currently we are in Porto, Portugal so I can make crazy characters like ç º ª But we can communicate pretty easily, most people speak English, our lady at the hotel speaks Spanish and the guy from this internet cafe spoke french .... ahh I feel so cultured. We are planning on doing something ridiculous like see 8 cities in 11 days or something so I think I will very little access to the Internet. Last night we had an amazing time drinking different port wines (if you can call it that, 20% alcohol, whewww). But the owner of the port bar we went to was soooooo kind and told us all about Portugal and port wine and everyone he has met for like 3 hours, plus us and these two Swedish people next to us were the only ones there. But its strange to go home at midnight instead of very late in Spain when they don´t even finish dinner until midnight.

Their is very little communication between Spain and Portugal, only one or two buses and/or trains run between Salamanca, Spain and Portugal every day, nothing is posted in Spanish, only French, English and Portuguese, sometimes German; but the guy from the port wine bar said he loved the Spanish. Where else in the world can you go to a bar at 1 am and two 70 year old women sitting down drinking a beer? ´´The Spanish just love living life´´ he said. He was very very kind to us and full of insight. (We also gave him the website address, so if Gustav is reading this, hello from Nithin, Ryan, and Aaron).

Okay, more later... and I realized Nithin nor I have posted about our birthday so I´ll try to do that soon as well... too much to do, whew.

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