tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56556872011-04-21T16:47:40.964-07:00The Wanderings of Jess"Be the change you wish to see in the world."eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1126581919163140302005-09-12T20:25:00.000-07:002006-05-04T04:51:35.976-07:00So maybe my vacation from this site lasted a few years. But I'm back...better late than never! eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1081548234062369442004-04-09T15:03:00.000-07:002004-04-09T15:06:41.873-07:00I have now made all previous blogs available so you can follow the journey from beginning to end. :)eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1070998696762093412003-12-09T11:38:00.000-08:002003-12-09T11:39:01.216-08:00I'm home. Well, my home away from home at least. On Sunday I went on a wonderful tour of the Highlands. I got to pet Hamish, the hairy Highland cow. Actually I should say "coo." The day was filled with incredible scenery. We drove by Stirling Castle and the Wallace monument and passed the castle where Mary Queen of Scots was born. We just went up and up. We stopped at Glencoe, where the McDonaldseurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1070744197867020882003-12-06T12:44:00.000-08:002003-12-06T12:57:19.030-08:00Hey, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I finally made it to Edinburgh. I arrived Friday around 4pm. The train ride from Reading was about 7 hours. That's a lot of train. The wonderful thing about coming to Edinburgh this time of year is all the christmas lights hanging around! There is a festival here right now that even has an ice skating rink. Since it was dark when I arrived, I just eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1070122847880681482003-11-29T08:20:00.000-08:002003-11-29T08:21:22.543-08:00Thanksgiving was nice. The closest we could get to turkey was bar-b-que chicken. I carved the chicken which was more like pulling off little pieces with a butter knife all the while eating a piece for every two I put on the plate. They just didn't know better when they put me in charge of that task! My first batch of cheese sauce ended up as a blob of flour, so I had to start over. The broccoli eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1069948727799390942003-11-27T07:58:00.000-08:002003-11-27T07:59:20.670-08:00Happy Thanksgiving. On this day of thanks I would like to say "thank you, Lord" for my sister. Bless her heart. Always giving to the less unfortunate, she would take the shirt right off her back if it was needed. And if only she had a little extra money so that she could buy a new shirt for herself to wear the world would be such a better place in which to live. If only someone would send money eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1069774025023777092003-11-25T07:27:00.000-08:002003-11-25T07:27:35.606-08:00Rain. Rain. Rain. and cold rain. The weather just makes me want to mope around everywhere. I went into London on Saturday. It rained the whole time. It's hard enough to walk along the crowded street, but there is more of a challenge when everyone is carrying an umbrella and playing hopscotch over the puddles. Since we wanted to get out of the rain we went into free museums. First was the Museum eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1068407335932463882003-11-09T11:48:00.000-08:002003-11-09T11:48:53.276-08:00Hello. I don't have any travel stories to tell. I'm taking a break after my last fiasco. I suppose I could just give a description of the day-to-day activities in a British town.
I hardly ever wake up in time for breakfast at 8:30. Since I never have class, I've gotten quite lazy. Rolling out of bed around 10 or so, I usually fiddle in my room until noon. The line gets really long at 12:30 eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1067622372004021772003-10-31T09:46:00.000-08:002003-10-31T09:46:10.576-08:00Happy Halloween! I hope that your day has gone better than mine. I've decided that every great adventure has at least one day that will forever live in infamy. I just experienced mine. And trust me, it definitely ranks up there with the most horrible days of my life (not that I've had too many.)
The plan this weekend was to go to Scotland and stay with the second-cousin whom I haven't seen sinceeurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1066656150365956542003-10-20T06:22:00.000-07:002003-10-20T06:22:30.203-07:00Hiyo! That's my new British word. Today is my 22nd birthday. Geez, it's tough getting old. Everyone here keeps making jokes about how many candles they're gonna have to buy to stick in the banana. (It has to be a banana because there aren't many chocolate cakes floating around.)
Last night I returned from a wonderful trip to Wales. I and two other girls (Jessica from Washington state and Lindsayeurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1065966572724971402003-10-12T06:49:00.000-07:002003-10-12T06:49:32.190-07:00Yesterday I headed into London in hopes of spending Sat, Sun, & Mon in the city. I rode on the train with two American girls, Lindsey and Jessica, also staying in my hall. The ride took about 20 minutes. I left them when we got to the train station in order to go looking for a hostel. Well, leave it up to me to pick the weekend when there is a BIG football (soccer) game in London and all the eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1065532601989080042003-10-07T06:16:00.000-07:002003-10-07T06:16:41.906-07:00I've been instructed to keep up more with my blogging, so here goes! I had to walk through hail and rain to get to the library. It was sunny when I left the dorm. By the time I was halfway into campus it started hailing and raining. Now it's sunny again. I guess that when I head to class it will start hailing some more. :)
This week has been a blur. There is a ridiculous amount of Americans hereeurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1064926733986326482003-09-30T05:58:00.000-07:002003-09-30T05:58:53.303-07:00Well, I finally made it. I'm at Hogwarts. Now all I need is a cool scarf. Actually, I did buy a scarf yesterday...it's pretty cold here. Wow, so much to catch you up on!
I got to swim in the Aegean Sea. It was cold and salty...and all the beaches were topless. That was quite a surprise. I went to the cave on Antiparos, and apparently Europeans don't know what a cave is supposed to look like. It eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1064163278308972872003-09-21T09:54:00.000-07:002003-09-21T09:54:37.676-07:00Hi! Well, at the moment I'm on the cute little island of Paros somewhere on the Aegean Sea. It was a 4 hour ferry ride from Pireaus (the port close to Athens)
I'll go into a little more detail on Rome now that I have more time.
I rode the train from Florence to Rome...it was just fine. The guy I sat beside snored the entire time. Once in Rome I searched for my hostel (Hotel Alessandro Downtown.eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1063997748966705932003-09-19T11:52:00.000-07:002003-09-19T11:55:48.306-07:00Greetings from Athens! Florence was grand, Rome was even better. I met an archaeologist who took me on a private tour around a church and near the Pantheon. I had dinner with Swedish girls and very nice Italian guys. It was wonderful! The ferry ride to Greece was long, but I met two nice Canadians and a guy from Illinois. We all came to the same hostel and are helping each other out. Tomorrow eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1063547860202811322003-09-14T06:57:00.000-07:002003-09-14T06:57:40.106-07:00Ok. This is gonna have to be quick because I only paid for 30 minutes. I happened upon this spot while wandering around in Florence, Italy. It's sunday (3:00pm) and everything is closed. I got to visit the Duomo, but no museums are open. The city of art and I came when it's all closed. Oh well....it's beautiful. I really like Italy so far. Tomorrow I catch an early train to Rome. Tonight I'm eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1063167216306730552003-09-09T21:13:00.000-07:002003-09-09T21:13:36.333-07:00And now for your viewing pleasure......ta dah.....the final itinerary for my invasion of Europe:
Sept. 11: arrive in Paris at Charles de Gaulle airport; spend 2 nights at Hotel Richard
Sept. 13: take an overnight train from Paris to Florence; spend 1 night in Florence
Sept. 15: leave Florence and travel to Rome by train (arrive around noon); stay at Hostel Alessandro Downtown for three nights
eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1062013732926336772003-08-27T12:48:00.000-07:002003-08-27T12:48:52.833-07:00My plane tickets came in today, so plans are now becoming more concrete. My flight leaves Little Rock September 10th in the afternoon. I'll have an hour layover in Dallas and will arrive in Paris (Charles De Gaulle) at 10 a.m. on September 11th. I have to be at the University in England the 28th or 29th, so who knows about everything in between! I bought a Eurail pass that covers three countries eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655687.post-1060263911335820702003-08-07T06:45:00.000-07:002003-08-07T09:18:11.600-07:00I'm at my second to last day of work at the Children's Hospital here in Little Rock. Maggie informed me of this little place, so I decided it would be good to have when I go to Europe (just to keep the folk updated and sure that I'm alive). I'm just learning how this works at the moment.
Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to this project, Webmagster.
My plans seem to change every day, eurojesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00349146657489363375noreply@blogger.com0