My travel blog

Naples (Napoli), Italia

2007-01-06T10:10:00.000-08:00

For more photos of Napoli, please see this link.

Luxembourg

2007-01-06T09:58:00.000-08:00

For more pictures of Luxembourg City see this link.

Pompeii, Italia

2007-01-05T19:47:00.000-08:00

For more pictures of my trip to Pompeii see this link.

Rome, Italia

2007-01-05T19:42:00.000-08:00

Fall Break

2006-10-04T08:02:00.000-07:00

Madrid
--"noisy, vibrant, chaotic--a city of great wealth and grueling poverty, with both a booming economy and high unemployment" ~AAA Europe Travel Book
--English/Spanish dictionary because English is not widely spoken :0
--Day Trips: Toledo, Cordoba (AVE bullet train)

Barcelona:
--capital of Catalonia
--one of Mediteranneans's most vibrant cities
--excellent public transportation
--people are helpful and polite
--English is not widely spoken. All signs in Catalan and Spanish.
TO STAY: Sea Pont Hostel (not private, 19euros), Centric Point (not private, 17euros)

Nice:
--take a bus or taxi to an area and then explore on foot (Old Town, Seafront) Then horse-drawn carriage or tourist train?
--There are public beaches, but the private beaches will be closed.
STAY: Villa Saint Exupery, $20/night

Things to do in Rome

2006-10-02T07:16:00.000-07:00

The Colosseum.
[72AD. Seats 55,000.] Colosseo.
The Pantheon.
The Catacombs.
Ostia.
Trevi Fountain
[toss one coin in for a wish, and another to guarantee return] Fontana di Trevi
Roman Forum
[contained ancient city's most important political, religious, and municipal buildings] Foro Romano E Palatino.
Vatican City. Musei Vaticani
->St. Peter's
[the site of St. Peter's burial, largest church, center of Catholicism, the Pieta, bronze statue of St. Peter, etc.] Basilica di San Pietro
->Vatican Museums.
--->Sistine Chapel.
The Capitoline Hill
Day Trips: Pompeii, Florence, Naples,

Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, La.

2006-08-02T21:17:00.000-07:00

Mississippi

2006-08-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

Chalmette, Louisiana

2006-08-02T21:02:00.000-07:00

There's an ADT truck on top of this garage.

There are nine houses here which were washed across the canal during the storm.

One of the houses ended up blocking the road and had to be cut in half.

The oak doors to this church were blown through by water and all the pews were pushed to the front. The stained glass windows went almost untouched.

This garage is not in its original location.

This eerie ice cream truck was the only traffic for hours.

We were told we could find SnoBalls if we went "just down the road, a half a mile past the Burger King with a semi on it".

There was a 75 foot Shrimp Boat down the road from where we were working. It belongs 8 miles away in NOEast.

There was a station wagon in the front yard across the street.

Alabama

2006-08-01T14:48:00.000-07:00

Arabi, Louisiana

2006-08-01T14:35:00.000-07:00

This flag isn't waving in the wind, it's been through a lot. That's a FEMA trailer in the background.

K=Katrina, if you didn't get that.

All of these were around the block from our church.

That boat shouldn't be on that fence.

Many of these houses were condemned.

That garage has also moved. These people have not been back.

This was the front yard of our church.

Adullum Christian Fellowship feeds, clothes, and gives water to about 400 people a day. It's a very important ministry in an area without running water, electricity, or traffic lights.

Bowling Green, Kentucky

2006-08-01T14:29:00.000-07:00

Cinncinatti, Ohio

2006-08-01T14:15:00.000-07:00

Nashville, Tennessee

2006-08-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

Columbus, Ohio

2006-08-01T14:06:00.000-07:00

The OSU Number Garden

Buffalo, NY

2006-07-18T16:42:00.000-07:00

Giraffes at the zoo!

Entering the city from the South

The city skyline across Lake Erie

The city skyline

The Scajacweda

The Naval Park and the Lake.

The Peace Bridge to Canada

The Albright Knox Art Gallery

The only building left over from the Pan American Exposition (the NYS building) which is now the History Museum, across Hoyt Lake.

The Shakespeare in the Park stage- home of the second largest free Shakespeare festival in North America!

Delaware Park, designed by Fredrick Law Olmstead

Main St.

The Electric Building.

The Darwin Martin house by Frank Lloyd Wright

The M&T Gold Dome.

Church downtown

the view from the library including city hall

the view from the library

Erie Community College City (pretty, but no good)

a church on Delaware

Lion downtown

Syracuse

2006-07-15T09:19:00.000-07:00

The sunset from my dorm

The Syracuse Skychiefs

Syracuse University

Doc's Little Gem Diner

Brussels

2006-07-14T23:41:00.000-07:00

Closeup of the Mannekin Pis

The Jannekin Pis

The entire Mannekin

Ontario

2006-07-14T23:38:00.000-07:00

We found this cheese shop when driving around random parts of Ontario

There are a lot of fireworks stores there

The beach on Lake Erie

Heidleberg

2006-07-14T23:36:00.000-07:00

The view from Heidleberg Castle of the city and the Rhine

the ruins of the Austro-Prussian war

Rhineland

2006-07-14T23:34:00.000-07:00

Castles on the Rhine

The friary we stayed in

more castles on the Rhine

the vineyards at St. Hildeguard

Cologne/Koln

2006-07-14T23:32:00.000-07:00

The view of the Rhine from the Cologne cathedral

The Cologne Cathedral

Lille

2006-07-14T23:30:00.000-07:00

L'eglise de St. Christophe, Tourcoing

Notre Dame de Lille

Hanging out in Tourcoing

the area in Lille where Victor Huge hung out

Paris

2006-07-14T23:29:00.000-07:00

Sacre Coeur Cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral

Postcard from Paris

Postcard of the Eiffel Tower

Poster of the Louvre

The Eiffel Tower

The Arc de Triumphe

The Seine

The Louvre

The Latin Quarter

Bruges

2006-07-14T23:28:00.000-07:00

Boston

2006-07-14T23:22:00.000-07:00

Harvard

Wellsley

The Boston Train Station

Arriving in Boston

the city skyline

Niagara Falls

2006-07-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

New York City

2006-07-14T22:47:00.000-07:00

Empire State Building

MTV Studios!

FAO Schwartz

The Plaza

Radio City Music Hall

Central Park Fountain

The Metropolitan Opera House

New Orleans

2006-07-14T22:43:00.000-07:00

St. Louis Cathedral

The Superdome

The view from Algiers

Jackson Square