Our bungalo we stayed in while camping in the south of France.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
NO top beach
In the south of the land of french fries (France) was a good place to chill out under the sun at a sandy beach. Our first night was spent at a hotel right on the border of France and Italy, then we made our way to the campground called Presqu'il de Giens. It was my favorite campground so far. But it still didn't have a swimming pool which really stunck. But luckily there were two beaches near by. One on the right, and one on the left. So in the last dying hours of the sun, we went to explore the beach to our righ. I thought the beach was going to be a huge long sandy beach with no sea weed. It was exacly the opsite. It was covered in it, along with thousand of leaping bugs all over the place. And the girls don't sun tan with their hole swim soot on. Almost every girl was not wearing ther tops exposing the 'mmms.' When we finaly found a place where there was no half naked women, we went for a swim and made stuff in the sand with seaweed. Hopfuly the beach to the the left was sandy, and everyone wore their baithing suits!
234 stairs to go...
Climbing to the top of the Laning Tower of Pisa was work out. All the stairs had a worn dip in the middle from endless amounts of people hwo have climbed it before. What was really cool was when I was walking up the stairs, you wold lean one way, then the other because the Tower is leaning fourteen feet.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Shoots he scores!
At the Starting out our trip, I took one hundred and thirty dollars out of my bank account for souvinors. I had already planed out what I was going to get. Itanlian soccer boots. The first thing I got was a Venice t-shirt for ten euros. The rest was for some goal scoring soccer boots. As we were exploring the city of Florance, we came across a store with some pritty cool boots. So we took a look inside. After searching for a while we didn't find much. But then my mom said, 'how about these?' I came over and the moment I looked at them I knew they were the one's I wanted. The price was origanaly one hundred and seventy five euros which adds up to around three hundred Canadian dollars. That's alot of money. Luckily they were on sale for seventy five euros. Now who could say no to a deal like that? Well I shur coul't. So in the end it turned out, I came walking out the door with a pair of 100% kangaroo leather soccer boots.
At the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
From the top of the Leaning Tower, you get a good view of the small town Pisa far below.
The Leaning tower of Pisa
Trying to push a leaning tower up right is harder than it looks! During ou visit in Florence, we took a day trip to Pisa. The Reason why was to see the Leaning Tower. Why this leaning tower was built, was to do an experament on gravitation. when the construction was finished, a man leaned over the side and droped a led ball and a fether from the top at the same time and they both hit the ground at the same time.
Tumb of the unknown soldier
This large building is in fact a extremely large tomb of an unknown soldier. This soldier represents all the soldiers who fought in world war two. For those of you who are going to Roma, and your thinking of visiting the tomb of the unknown soldier, take the ear wax out of your ear cause I'm going to tell you three very important travel tips of Roma.
Tip number one - watch out for the Roman soldiers scattered around the city. They are not actualy Roman soldiers; rather just random people dressed in Roman costumes asking if you would like your picture taken with them. After you've said yes, and you take your picture with them, then you hear the word you were hoping not to hear - MONEY!
Tip number two - If you decide to walk on the tomb, it would be a good idea not to sit down; weather you have to find your camera, tie your shoe lace, or if just need a break. Unless you would like to be whistled at by a police cop, which I'm probably guessing that you wouldn't
Tip number three - Tip number three is going to be the your favorite one. I can tell already by the drool dripping down your chin. You must have a Italian gelato. Not just one of those one you get in a freezer wrapped in paper. I'm talking about the huge piles of ice cream behind a glass window. When you get stumped between two or three gelatos, ask if you could get a mix of all three.
Tip number one - watch out for the Roman soldiers scattered around the city. They are not actualy Roman soldiers; rather just random people dressed in Roman costumes asking if you would like your picture taken with them. After you've said yes, and you take your picture with them, then you hear the word you were hoping not to hear - MONEY!
Tip number two - If you decide to walk on the tomb, it would be a good idea not to sit down; weather you have to find your camera, tie your shoe lace, or if just need a break. Unless you would like to be whistled at by a police cop, which I'm probably guessing that you wouldn't
Tip number three - Tip number three is going to be the your favorite one. I can tell already by the drool dripping down your chin. You must have a Italian gelato. Not just one of those one you get in a freezer wrapped in paper. I'm talking about the huge piles of ice cream behind a glass window. When you get stumped between two or three gelatos, ask if you could get a mix of all three.
A Roman theatre, the colleseum
The Roman colleseum is a large theatre where plays were eld along time ago. But not all were pleasant. At times, the Roman Emporer would send in a fiew Christians and a lion or two for pure intertainment.
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Beginning of the Roman domination...
If you look closly at this picture, you should see a small white dot in the north of Italy. That small dot is the beginning of the Roman Empire, the beginning of the biggist anciant army in worlds history.
Romans start to take over...
Now as you can see, the white dot has now grown; covering all of Italy, all of Greece, and all of spain. What country will meet their fate next?
And the Roman Empire still grows bigger...
Now as you can see the Romans have conquered most of Europe.
Roman Empire in full force
This is how big the Roman Empire was before they started to crumble from countless attackes from the Hannables who came over the Alpes on elephants; and numerous encounters with the Vickings up north.
Parthanon...
This morning at five a.m. in the morning, a taxi drove us to the airport on the island of Samos. From there we got on a one houre plain ride to Athens. Waiting for us in the Athens airport was the all time famous taxi driver: George. We all hopped in his bright yellow car and went on an amazing sight seen drive around the Roman ruin filled city of Athens. Our first stop was the first Olympic stadium ever built. The stadium was constructed by the Greeks and made completly out of marble.
Now George will take us on a drive through the city and eventually arrive at a breth taking Roman structure, the Parthanon. George parked his taxi and the bottom of a hill while we climbed to the top. On our way up, someone asked if we would like to go on a privite tour for half price with only two other people. How could some one say no to that. Well come to think of it, we almost did. But in the end we had a fantastic tour of the Parthanon; and got some spectacular photo's.
From the Wow Traveller,
Parker Vining
Now George will take us on a drive through the city and eventually arrive at a breth taking Roman structure, the Parthanon. George parked his taxi and the bottom of a hill while we climbed to the top. On our way up, someone asked if we would like to go on a privite tour for half price with only two other people. How could some one say no to that. Well come to think of it, we almost did. But in the end we had a fantastic tour of the Parthanon; and got some spectacular photo's.
From the Wow Traveller,
Parker Vining
Friday, May 15, 2009
Roman clay pipes
Back in the time of the Romans, the pipes were made of clay. They attached one pipe to another with sment. The sment was made by mixing egg white and volcanic ash, then pooring it onto the crack where the two pipes are joyned. When it hardens, it becomes sment. While they are placing the pipes into the ground, a Roman will pun
How a Roman pillar is built
During the time of the Roman Empire, two thousand years ago, there was no sutch thing as cranes and bulldozers to help buid thier masive counstructions and to stand up all of their heavy pillars. Instead they used ropes and their own muscles to lift the rocks. So while touring around Ephesus, we were showed how the Romans made the large pillars which were used to make the old library and great walls. What they did was get a large chunck of rock, carve it out in a circle, then put three holes in the middle. You can see this in the picture. If you look closly, you should also see small trofs carved into the rock, starting from the primater of the large rock and leading into each of the small holes. Then they will place an iron barr in each hole. After doing that to the first rock, they get another one, carve three holes into the middle, then place it on top of the first stone so that the iron barrs in the first rock go into the holes into the second rock. Now that the rocks are placed on top of one another, a Roman will poor molten led into the trof which leads down to the three holes which contain the iron barrs. When the led drys up, it goes hard and fills in the gaps so the two rocks stacked on top of each other won't fall off. Now hwo could think of something as intelagent as that?
A good place to socialize...sitting on a Roman toilet!
While exploring Ephesus our tour guide showed us loads of cool things. One of them, as you can see is the Roman washroom. All it is, is a large room with a stone bench going all around the primater. Carved into the stone, are small holes about two feet apart from one another. Inside the holes is a large pit where all the droppings go. It sounds like a good place to talk and meat other people while going to the bathroom.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Kadir Tree house...to cool
During our stay at Olypmos, we stayed in the coolest place you could stay...Kadir's Tree Houses. Kadir's is an awsome place for packpackers and new travellers. You get to sleep in rustique tree houses, all with their very own name. Our tree house was called the Camels toe! At night, just as it's starting to get dark, a huge bon fire is built, along with fresh home cooked popcorn cooked in olive oil and salt. Mmm... After traveling for a fiew days and you are looking for a dood place the hang out for the day, the Olympos beach would be a good option. It's a mile walk from Kadir's, and on the way you will bump into some old Roman ruins right next the the trail. Kadir's Tree Houses is defanatly the place to go. Living in a tree, good food, a big fire and night with mouth watering popcorn, and a brilliant beach with Roman ruins to look at. What more do you need?
Parker and the Cotten Castle
Exploring the calcium pools in Pamakale was something I'll never forget. The calcium pools are constructed from underground water that comes up to the suface of the mountaine made of calcium. As it runs down the mountaine, it creates small pools, slowly getting bigger as more water runs down. Pamakale is named after the calcuim pools which are also nknown as the Cotten Castle. So the town name, Pamakale, means Cotten Castle.
minaral pool
This is a jacuzzi in pamakkale. Inside the water, it has a minaral that is good for your skin. That's what makes the water brown. Year's ago, people would come to this spring for helth when they got sick. But they always died!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Spice Bazaar
The spice Bazaar is like the Grand Bazaar but instead of the clothing and all that, it's filled with spices, flavord tea's and Turkish dilight. All the stores were filled with them. We happend to walk out with a bag of Turkish dilight and a bag of appel tea.
The Grand Bazaar
The Grand Bazzar was almost too mutch to grasp. Walking through the maze of path ways and shops was breth taking. Inside there are four to five thousand shops and just as many people. It was like a huge shopping mall but mutch more cool to see. There were clothing shops, book shops, metal shops, food stores, candy shops, shops with watches, shops with teas and spices, and many many more.
Old Roman ruins
This is a pease of a Roman wall in Pamakkale. On the inside of this wall is where the Romans held their market. It was quite a site.
Underground city
Can you imagane living in a city under the ground? Well today in Cappadocia, our guide led us to where the Hittites used to live under the ground while their fight agenst the Romans. Hundreds of years ago, the Hittites had built an underground city made to hide themselves from their enamies. While exploring this anciant underground city, we saw what they used for a kitchen, how they made the stables for the animals, what they used for a toilet, and saw all their defence forces they used underground. For defending their city, they used large rocks in the shap of a circle with a hole in the middle. What they would do is roll the fiew hundred pound rock infront of an entrance way so the enamies couldn't get in. The hole in the middle was for poring boiling oil into the attackers on the other side. Living inside this city was a population beetween one thousand and five thousand people. Now that, is alot of people.Then again, after exploring the city for one hole hour, our tour guide said that we had only seen ten percent of it. Now theirs a wow!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Me and the mud make a messy match
Swiming in a pool filled with mud is something I will never forget. On our tour in Pamakkale, we stopped for lunch at a four star hotel. But first we had fouty five minutes of free time to splash around in some wicked pools. First, I'm going to check out the mud pool. The water was warm, and when you steped inside, an inch of goopy mud would xquish between my toe's. When I got out, the mud that was in my hair, went stiff causing my hair to look like spaghetti sticks. This, as you can see is me in enjoying the life of a pig.
Fairy Chimnies
During our first day in Cappadocia, our tour guide led us through a vally which contained dozens of Fairy Chimnies. All of them different and neat to see. In some Fairy Chimnies, there where holes dug into the sides. These holes were dug out hundreds of years ago by the Hittites. The reason why they did this is because along time ago, when the Romans where in power, the Hittites and Romans where fighting. When the Hittites started to loose the battle, they went to Cappadocia to hide in the rocks.
The super cool Fairy King
As we were making our way through the Fairy Chimnies, I so happened to stumble apon a Fairy Chair.
Parker and the camels
This is me and my best friend the smelly camel! During our two day tour in Cappadocia, we have come across some cool animals. But bileave me, not all of them smell good..
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