Life without communication tools...

So we have just arrived in Barcelona. I made one collect call home because I couldn´t add any money to a phone card and the lack of internet over the past 5 days has been insanity. We are running all over place all the time, but I´m glad that I´m a travel sleeper. The lack of sleep would otherwise do me in.

I have discovered that Australians are very VERY consistant binge drinkers. They are somehow able to drink heavily every night and wake up super early in the morning, nice and hungover, and then able to start drinking again by noon. It´s crazy, and physically impossible for us Canadians who are young and not particularly that bad at drinking, even after living through McGill´s Management Carnival. It is insanity and a little painful. They sure didn´t tell you this about Contiki (especially to my parents) but apparently it´s well known throughout that part of the world that Contiki trips are just weeks of no sleep.

Anyway, enough complaining about my own lack of liver....

France is beautiful. Paris is a crazy crazy bustling city where the city doesn´t run on gridded streets and everything just goes everywhere and the chances of getting hit by a car are really really high. Wandering around hungover was a tad painful, but I´m lucky that I´ll be going back there in a little while with mommy where we´ll do real tour things. Had a really nice authentic dinner in a French restaurant and saw a Cabaret show at the Nouvelle Eve. It was fantastic despite what they say about Cabaret shows and our tour guide said the one there was the best one she´d ever seen. I think I may take Mommy there =)

The countryside, and especially the Beaujolais wine region is super pretty - I took pictures but they really don´t give justice to the beauty all over the place. Grape vines for grapes are kept in these really cute neat little rows and just everything seems so organized. We went to The Top of the World where we had a nice picnic that just overlooked the whole region. Gorgeous is the best word to describe the scenery!

We drove to Barcelona today, a very long 13 hour trip, to our campsite. Tomorrow we´ll be entering the city bright and early to check out the sites. I found Absenth today in the store. 85% alcohol. You can imagine why it´s illegal in Canada and most other places where governments care about the bodies of thier people. I may just pick up a bottle to bring back for show since it´s such a random piece of work and it´s just dirty cheap here. No one should be able to buy a micky of Absenth for under 10 euros, or like 15 dollars. It´s just wrong. But nonethelss, it´s here! We´ll see.

Tomorrow when we go into the city I´ll try to find some traditional souvenier thingies and perhaps a postcard or two to be a real tourist! Then at night, it´s a flamingo dinner and dance! Exciting =) Anyhow anyhow, my internet time is running a little low at this shady campground internet cafe and I´m out of Euros to put into the clock.

Adios till I find another source of communication!