MOTHER AFRICA
Maniacal Works is in Africa! Ellie branched off from The Gang for a spell to join her family for a safari through the Serengeti and beyond. Gratch met a cheetah, but internet here isn’t allowing us to post the video. That will come later. Instead, here’s a pic of Minion meeting up with his...
Everything in life is vibrations. (Days 30-34)
We stared at this blank screen for some time to try and come up with words to describe Amsterdam. We’ll be honest, this city doesn’t promote sobriety. Days tend to blend together. There’s a word to describe the dutch psyche – gezellig. This means taking time to enjoy yourself and relax. Wherever you go here,...
Taking care to contemplate in Copenhagen. (Days 27,28,29)
And then we went to Copenhagen. Leaving Berlin was interesting, to say the VERY least. We barely made the train because Geshougnblacherhouserstausse (Gesundbrunnen) is the most confusing train station we’ve encountered thus far. Running down the platform with all of our bags, we jumped onto the last car of the sleeper train seconds before it...
Bring in the clowns. (Days 23,24,25,26)
Sorry for the hiatus guys! We know we’ve fallen behind on our posts… BUT! We’ve learned soooooo much and allowed ourselves time to digest everything so we can share it with you cohesively. The last time you heard from The Maniacal Gang, we were leaving Prague to go to Berlin. Before we knew it, a week...
A fine state to rejuvenate. (Days 21 & 22)
Sunday was nice and laid-back. We walked around sunny Prague, visiting the John Lennon wall, and the wonderful woman who sold us tickets to the marionette show. Lunch was delightful. We ate big bagel sandwiches and people-watched. We were surrounded by the most americans we’ve encountered so far. Our waiter was a very...
Some time to take time out of time. (Day 20)
It was St. Patrick’s Day, and none of us were wearing green. Honestly we could care less about St. Patrick, and more about that it’s MOM’S BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!! Thanks for the support and we love you! Keeping our trip spontaneous is a challenge in itself. Today we needed to slow down and...
Czech it out! heehheh… (Day 19)
So, yeah, Prague? WE LOVE IT. Today was sunny, warm, and extremely exciting. We started with a trek up to Prague Castle (in Czech, it’s Pražský hrad), where we immediately took to the stage and entertained the hordes of tourists visiting from every corner of the world. The people here really like us – the entire...
Gutenlagenshragendeuchfaagdin! (Day 18)
Traveling was the major theme for today. We got out of Bern early (the youth hostel was quite literally a youth hostel, and being around so many hormonal teenagers started getting to us) and took the train to Basel. Then another train to Karlsruhe, then another to Nümberg, then a bus to Prague (which we...
A quick Bern in Switzerland. (Day 17)
Our adventures today took us into the land of the Swiss. The morning started early, catching the train from Bologna to Milan, then from Milan to Bern. The scenery was, of course, spectacular. We arrived in Bern mid-afternoon. This place is like a fairy-tale. You’d expect to see a troll living underneath at...
Now, this, THIS is Italy! (Days 14,15,16)
Oddio, have we been enjoying ourselves. Internet has been scarce since we’ve come to Bologna, so we’re going to combine the past few days into this one post. HOKAY so on the 11th of March, we left Milan early to take the train into Bologna. We love taking the train – the sights we...
Duomo? Fo sho! (Day 13)
We started the day with banana and nutella pancakes that Jamie whipped up, followed by some delicious Italian espresso. Ready to take advantage of the gorgeous spring day, we ventured off to the famously beautiful Duomo a Milano, where Michael, our tour guide/awesome host, showed us the elaborate architecture, some dead people, and the roof,...
Onward and upward. (Day 12)
We awoke early with little sleep and very exhausted bodies. Though we can’t even begin to describe how much we enjoyed Paris, we knew our journey had to continue. We dragged our baggage to Gare du Nord for our train out of Paris to Milan. We were grumpy and sad to leave such a lovely...