Category Archives: Travel

Feb 14 2011
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Shoutout, Travel

Happy Valentine’s Day

Funny Valentine's Day Ecard: Happy Valentine's Day to someone who raised me, loved me unconditionally, and made me almost capable of having a functional relationship.

Valentine’s Day has never meant much to me – so I’m neither happy nor sad today. I do intend to have some good food for dinner tonight, but besides that expectations are pretty low/non-existent.
I DO have something to celebrate though… Dan is now OFFICIALLY BOOKED FOR EUROPE this summer!! Thanks to my expert travel-agent-via-internet skills and about 60k Delta Skymiles that Dan had accrued, he is now booked to enjoy an 18-day European getaway this summer. I’d say that more than makes up for his unfortunate absence last year.
I am extra excited because I am getting to experience new places I’ve never been to before this year – including London and Venice – in addition to sharing with Dan some of my all-time faves (like Cinque Terre and, possibly, Rome – maybe just for lunch).
Anyway, just wanted to share my excitement. Valentine’s Shmalentines……but YAY FOR EUROPE!!!
LONDON
CINQUE TERRE
VENICE
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Jun 16 2010
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France, Sports, Travel

Hat Trick

Just realized tonight that this is the third World Cup in a row during which I’ve been in Europe. A recap of vivid snippets I remember from each of the last three tourneys…

2002
Sitting in a park in Geneva, Switzerland with several of my high school French classmates watching World Cup games on a huge screen that had been erected in the middle of a public square area.
2006
Sitting in an alley in the streets of Rome outside a bar that had set up two 32″ tv’s out onto the road so more people could see. Italy won this year, so I remember things being INSANE!
2010
Tonight…whilst enjoying a brew and watching Uruguay (unfortunately) beat South Africa in an Irish Pub of sorts in Antibes, France I made my realization of how Europe calls me to its continent during World Cup years.
That is all. More realizations to come, I’m sure…
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Jun 12 2010
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Cannes Lions Festival, Travel

L-I-V-I-N

Still sorry for all the delays posting updates. Been too busy l-i-v-i-n.


Cannes Lions students checking in today and tomorrow, so should have time to add some stuff this weekend — minus the few hours when I’ll be cheering on USA v. England this evening!
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Jun 08 2010
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Travel, UGA Students

Firenze

aka- Florence… is where I am now and where I will be for the next 2 days. Not originally a part of my plan – although I didn’t really have a plan – but alas this is where I am and I like it.

We left Cinque Terre early this morning after a good day and a half of eating, hiking, swimming, and lounging on rocks at the water’s edge. Noticing that our train to Florence connected in Pisa, I suggested we stop there for a touristy and snapshot-heavy pitstop at the famous tower. Beaucoups of pictures to follow…

After Pisa we had a slight mis-step in all catching the same train, but we YOLO’d our way through it and found each other at the hotel lobby in Florence just fine.

…which brings us to the present momen. We arrived to the hotel in Florence – knowing that three girls (half of our group) had a reservation scheduled here. The Hodge Twins and I had no reservations anywhere in Florence. Our mis-steps turned into mini-miracles as the guy working the front desk of the hotel (which was ENTIRELY BOOKED, mind you) somehow arranged to switch our rooms so that ALL SIX OF US can room together in mac-daddy Florence suite. We have a king bed, a double bed, and two twin beds AND our own bathroom. Not to mention enough extra space with which we could accomodate a middle school dance. There’s also a chandelier. Oh la la. So, needless to say, I have sidelined my plans of arriving earlier in Rome and will now be in Florence for a couple of days. Hard to pass this deal up.

Well, I’m off to find some gelato. Ciao.

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Jun 07 2010
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Shoutout, Travel

For Carl

Our love is international, Carl.
(And according to this graffiti art, it has been since August of ’09. Accurate much?)

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