Andrew and James Do Southern Europe

It has been brought to my attention that blogs I write are far more important to a certain someone (I'm not going to name any names but HIS name starts with an "A" and ends in "ndrew Ross"), than our actual relationship...the only words he says to me morning, noon, and night are "hey dude, I need a blog post out of you..." I reply with "Oh, good morning sunshine! How are you?"...very one sided friendship if you ask me...but who's complaining??
I don't write these blogs for the man at the top reaping all of the benefits for my genious writing, exploiting my talent as a writer, and just throwing my friendship away like a popsicle stick....haha I'm just kidding....but seriously, these blogs are for you, my loyal followers, and I apologize for not being as consistent, there are (believe it or not) many distractions that have to do with babes, hot weather, babes, beaches, football, babes, and football...hopefully you'll understand and forgive me.

Andrew (the guy who has NOT been mentioned at all in this blog so far) and I have about 10 days off from practice and games with the Jaguaarit starting this sunday after our game against the Crocs, and we're heading south for the summer? thats not right...SOUTHERN EUROPE HERE WE COME!

Starting to the think about where we wanted to go was the easy part...we heard good things about Eurail so we bought a 5 country access rail pass and each picked some countries we wanted to visit....well, the really cool thing about Eurail is that you pay alot of money for this pass (which supposedly gives you access to any rail in the countries you specified when you bought it) and then you have to pay each time you get on a train for a seat reservation, which can be anywhere from 5 to 15 euro for a seat, great deal right?! WRONG, in my opinion, why should we pay all this money to get "access" to the trains (whatever that means) and have to pay more to actually ride them..."Oh look honey, with this pass we get to get on the train and walk around in it, oooooohhhhhh look at the nice seats! but if we actually want to ride it somewhere, say OUR VACATION SPOT we have to pay more, sounds like a great deal to me!" If you marry this man or women, don't come running to me, I've warned you... In all honesty Eurail seems like a pretty legit way to travel around Europe for a week and a half, but I guess we'll see!
Andrew and I decided on Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and Switzerland, which seem like awesome places to visit but planning out our trip, however, was not so awesome...Train by train, hostel by hostel, what time the train leaves, the time it arrives at our destination, how many strangers we want to sleep with for a night (which has been anywhere from 4 to 20..."cozy, if you're Hannibal Lector") so you know we're in for a good time...Needless to say I have a map my Dad gave me of Central and Southern Europe marked up with pen to all the cities and routes we're taking, not to mention about 3 pieces of paper covered back to front with Hostel reservations, Train times, Train numbers, directions to Train stations, where I'm going to eat, sleep and poop! And I gotta tell ya, I feel hung over from all of this planning...if only I had all the money in the world...

In summary, one of my best friends and I get to travel around Europe for 10 days!!! I can't wait! I knwo there will be some kinks in our itinerary, and stuff is going to get crazy and wild, but BRING.....IT.....ON!!!!!!!!!! Frankfurt (Germany), Paris (France), Venice (Italy), Rome (Italy), Pisa (Italy), Bern (Switzerland), back up to Munich (Germany) and end it in Bremen where our plane takes off back to Finland. Notice how Greece, my number 1 choice in countries to visit is not on there...well, we found out that the most "efficient" way to get there would be to take a ferry from Bari (Italy) to Patras (Greece), but the oh so efficient ferry (recommended by Eurail) takes about 15 hours one way....pretty damn efficient if you ask me....NOT! So, unfortunately we had to give the ol' axe to Leanitus and my fellow Spartans, I will get to you some day....Ladies, if you plan on proposing to me (which Im not opposed to role reversal) our honeymoon spot will most likely be some tropical island or Greece....FYI.

Til my next post which will be