Florence , Part 1

Our flight from Paris-Orly was delayed about 2 hours because of bad weather, and we had to pay a 25 euro fine after getting off the train to get on the train to Orly. Apparently, you had to buy a special ticket even though no one told us, then we had to buy a ticket to the airport, so we weren't too happy. Then after arriving in Pisa we took a hour train to Florence where we met some Americans studying there, halfway through the conversation they start talking about how people they knew got mugged by people and all these bad things that happened. So to say the least, when we got off the train, we were a bit nervous, it didn't help that it was midnight. We couldn't take a cab because we had vowed not to take cabs on this trip, so we were walking around Florence at night, we did a complete circle before we found our way at about 2:30 in the morning. It was a lot of fun to say the least.


The Swiss Alps on the way to Italy


We flew by a storm and I was lucky enough to catch the lightning



The Duomo





Ponte Vecchio

Sorry, more Paris

For dinner one night we took a blanket we stole from the plane and had a picnic with wine, bread, cheese, smoked meat and all sorts of goodies. We had three bottles between us so you can connect the dots on that one. It was quite a night, we talked, ate, drank, had some Irish guy come up to us claiming he was Bono's brother and he needed some wine, and watched the Tower.








Views from the top of the Eiffel Tower

Paris Again

Some really strange ad where it looks like the squirrel is going to eat the two people or that somehow the people have a giant squirrel as a pet. I don't speak French so I have no idea.



A bridge over the Seine at night.


Centre Georges Pompidou

Paris Continued

Now up, some pictures of the Louvre, the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.

Finally starting posting pictures of the Euro trip!!

I am finally getting around to posting the pictures from my Europe trip with two of my friends. I took over 750 pictures and videos so I wont be posting them all but I'll try to get as many as I can. What I am going to do is post pictures from each day and hopefully that will keep it organized. We left the 10th of April and spent that night and the next days in Paris. We went to the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, The Louvre, Champs Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, and the Centre Georges Pompidou.

On the 13th, at night, we left for Florence and after a delayed flight and an hour train ride with arrived in Florence. We spent thee next day in Florence, walking around, seeing the sights (which included seeing the fake david) and other touristy things like that. The next day, the 15th we took an early train to Rome to meet up with a couple friends and do a pub crawl that night. Rome was OK, it was very dirty and did not seem like that great of a city. However, we saw all the major sights. Then on the afternoon of the 16th we left for Madrid. We then saw the sights of Madrid and met up with a couple of my friend's friends who were studying abroad in Madrid, and they took us around the city. Then on the 19th I went on a Swissair flight from Madrid to Zurich, then Zurich to Tel Aviv. But the connecting flights were about 5 hours apart so I was able to take a 15 minute train ride from the airport to the Zurich city center. There I walked around for a couple of hours and had dinner and a beer by the river and hopped on the next train for the airport.

So finally onto the picture of the first day of Paris.


This was on the tray table on the airplane, "Fasten selt belt while seated", I'm not quite sure what a "selt belt" is but I have to imagine its something like a seat belt.





I had to share a bed with my friend the first night because of a mix-up.

North Trip Third Day

On the third day we went hiking near the Kinneret and did some real mountain climbing as the way down was basically straight down with only handles and ropes drilled into the side of the cliff. After that we went rafting down the Dan river that feeds the Kinneret but I dont have any pictures of that.