Day 396

I feel like, I dont know, I got enough of travelling now. Enough of the touristic places, it is all the same in the end. I have enough of the crowd of people talking weird languages, or worst! french-French! I have enough of walking around to see churches, museums, rivers, markets, tramways and train stations. Fucking train stations!
I know I might be a bit exausted now and unhappy about the train I missed for Marseille (because I went to the wrong train station, and it took me too long to find 1. the information center 2. sorry, the TRAIN information center 3.the ticket office to talk with someone, not only machines 4. Ah! The INTERnational train tickets office...) and now I have to wait till 11pm (instead of 6)... So i will loose one day to visit Marseille and arg! I am not in a good mood now!
Oh and the internet cafe here is creepy! 3 indians guys are working here. They asked for my id, to use a computer là! So I gave them an old student card, and the guy thought UQAM was my country of residence... Anyway. The worst is the internet connection, it is shutting all the time grrr...
And the cerise sur le sunday caliss! Marta just told me that Grzechu is now living with Ola! Can you fucking believe it! Me, I dont want to! No Grzechu no!
Ok ok, I am going outside chilling out bit.
Desole pour les mots vulgaires, ca m'aide a faire passer ma rage parfois...
Ciao!

Day 395

Jai vu le Papee! Jai vuu le Papee!
He was dressed in Gold and he canonnized 4 italians and 1 portuguese as Saints. something like that. Was very interesting yes!
So, Im in Rome et je suis hebergee chez mon oncle, au couvent des Servites de Marie. We visited churches, the Colosseo and the Pantheon.
Im exausted and Im going to Marseille tomorrow, that means an other night train where I wont be able to sleep too well cause I break my back...
Je suis de retour a Montreal ben vite! Je pourrais conter les jours, mais je me garde une petite reserve, ca risquerait trop de freiner mon elan en Europe et m'empecher d'apprecier pleinement toutes les belles choses que je vois!

Day 391

Dobardam! (hello in the language here!)
Today is my last full day with Myriam :(
Croatia was very nice, beautiful, and people were helpfull mostly when Mimi was trying to speak croatian with her dictionnary. But to be honnest, a week was a bit too long. We were not in the high touristic season so most of the time we've been fucked with the ferries schedules, same for the buses. Having a car to travel around here would have been the best option!
We are now in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, host of the '89 Olympics game and center point of the begening of World War I( Franz Ferdinand and his Wife Sofia were killed here). Yesterday we spent the day in Mostar (old bridge in their language) capital of Herzegovina AND capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Makes sense?
We visited both Old Towns and got the same impression: everything was nice and made for the tourists. But walking around, far from the old town was nicer, but sadder as well. I don't know, it's weird to think that we were young kids while, here, they were in war. We can still see the damages to houses and buildings and everything. Mostar was the worst I think. The old bridge was the ''connection between Orient and Occident'' so it had a huge sybolism when it was bombed in '92. Now completly rebuilt, it is part of the UNESCO Heritage and so on, so you can imagine its beatiful, and full of kiosks selling all the same crap. But once out of there, its different, a bit scary even. So poor and its looks so old with the partly destroyed buildings. Sarajevo is a bit better about that, but still...
Today Mimi and I were visiting the city when we suddently needed to pee :) So what we did, we went to the Holidays INN in front of us. The yellow and brown walls gave a very 80's look haha, even the entrance was... wow. But in fact this hotel was the last place bombed here because all the journalists seeked shelter there. Anyway, was nice.
Mimi bought a new mobile yesterday in Mostar, because she forgot hers in Split, Croatia. We went to an internet coffee right before taking our ferry for an small island. The minute we sat down, she realized she forgot it at the coffee, but it was like 5 min. too late, the boat wasn't going to wait for her while she run for her phone... But yes, its funny to buy an second hand phone to a weird guy who doesn't really speak english. The best was to buy the SIM card and then try to activate the mobile! Because obviously it wasn't writtin in english and the machine-lady talking on the phone at first spoke only serbo-croatian or something. Ale Betchka! ...
I got more pictures and videos, but its gonna be for an other day. Can't do everything at the same time! :)
Hvala! (Thank you ;) )

Day 387

Here some pictures. Very few pictures. Enjoy :)

View of Praha from the castle with the very best Shampoo in the world.

Im bored in the train... Can you lick my battery?

I asked an old man to take a nice picture of me and the badminton medal in front of the Castle in Vienna, but as you can see, my hightech camera was too complicated for him...

So I took a picture of Beethoven with it, still in Vienna.

Then I tried to take a picture of the view from my hostel with Grabbash's T-shirt... but it wasn't too sucessful...

There was a Polish shop near by... but was always closed...

The Diamond, the Catle of Bratislava, the restaurant/spaceship, and the new town.

My weeding ring and a King of Budapest.

Juju, Zul, was sleeping 2hrs on a platform of a train station. Then she walked around because she was too cold and had to wait 4 more hours for her next train, to finally realize there was a safe and warm spot indoor the station... ZUL! But she wasnt alone sleeping there! Clever zul!

Justine with the english look enjoying a Capuccino in Split, Croatia. Merci Mimi pour la belle photo...

Please, do not enter the cemetery in bathing suits! OK??

Looks like they like Vodka-pipi or Kiwi-pipi in Croatia...

Un vieux croate qui promene son chien en 4-roues... Je suis encore sceptique...

Typical moment in the fruits market! She sold us nice fresh spinach :)

I also added few videos on youtube! Look for justineyouloulou you can find them all!

Day 386

Je suis en Croatie avec Mimi sti pis c'est le paradis!
It's beautiful, sunny (cold at night while campiing...), locals are nice with us, and we are too happy to be together here!
Dont have too much time, just wanted to say : we are alive and happy!

Day 382

Here's my last day in Budapest, amazing and beautiful city! I've been hosted by a guy from Kentucky, USA, living here for a scholarship in astronomy, so basicly he came here 7 months ago to study the stars with some professionals, and its cool. He's learning hungarian in his free time, and then he goes out a lot with the young hungarians he met here.
The city, few years ago, made a hole in the middle of Pest, the most modern part of the city if I can say, and they made some fondations. It was suppose to be the futur National Opera. For some reasons, they stoped it and built the National Opera somewhere else. So, there is a big hole in the city where the Budapest Youth goes during the day for a sun bath, and at night because everybody is there, drinking beer or cheap hungarian wine, playing music, or doing some street performances, etc. We went there on friday, twice, and I dont know how to describe that. Ca me rappellait un peu le festival des Mongolfieres, mais c'est plus comme si les ados avaient vieillis un peu! Za Ibista!
I"ve seen the Castle, the old Church, the old Synagogue, the citadel. Was worth it. Today I'm going to the Monument Park. Park where the government post-communism moved all the statues of propaganda out of the city. Only one is remaining in the town, only because its way too big to be move away. So, they put a gate around it, because every once in a while, someone is trowing pretty much anything to it. The hungarian flag under communism had the hammer symbol in the middle of the 3 stripes, and during the revolution poeple were simply cuting a hole in the middle of the flag. The one in front of the Parliament still has it. Quite interresting city yeah!
I'm taking the train this after-noon and 10hrs later, after 2 transfers, I'm gonna meet Mimi en Croatie esti! J'ai hate :)

PS: Je n'ai pas eu de fete a thematique de Paques cette annee, on est simplement sortis pour quelques verres dans les rues vides de budapest car tout le monde etait en famille... Quelqu'un a toujours un des medaillons que j'offrais pour Paques l'an passe? :)

Day 379

My second day in Vienna was better. The city is beautiful but no so exciting, maybe because i was alone, maybe because I walked almost 3 hrs on the ring (which is the main street going in round built on a forteress or something) and a saw massives museums and looooottttsss of shops and old people shopping. So I stop in a posh coffe shop for a cappuccino on a chic terrasse haha!

The girls sharring the hostel room with me were cool but boring, 3 of them went to sleep aroung 9-10pm both nights... and I did the same... I paid for that bed better using it!

Im now in Bratislava (Gab jai une bonne photo pour toi tu va rire!) and its all right. The guy hosting me is working till 10pm, in a call center. But the funniest is that he works for a porn website comapgnie, so hes customers are mainly people complaning cause someone else stole their credit card details to spend it on that web site! wow cool job... Anyway, he is working far from the center so here i am waiting for him to come back so i can go to have a shower and sleep lol... He said there is maybe a Couch Surfers meeting here tonight, so then we will head up there.

Ah et en passant, jai rencontrer un couple de quebecois a Prague et en leur parlant jai realiser a quel point je perds mon francais! Jessayais de dire que je voyageais et cetait comme: je tra... je tra... je travel... heum tse voyons! Et puis a Vienne jai realiser que je pensais pratiquement tout le temps en anglais... Donc voici un retour du francais sur cette page. Jecris dans mon journal de bord, en francais evidemment, mais ce ne semble pas suffisent!

Day 377

Wien is, till now, a bad and very bad experience... And the keybord is as confusing as Jiri's one... :(

The guy who was supposed to host me finally replied to me to comfirme it... half an hour ago... So I got to the train station here around 1pm. No currency exchance office, no internet, no locker to keep my bag, and I had nowhere to go.

Took the metro, found an internet cafe, found a more or less cheap hostel, tried to go there. Fucking far... But me, thinking that walking from the metro to the hostel, instead of taking the bus, could be nice. You know it was still sunny and the city is beautiful. But NO it wasn't!! The hostel is situated outside Vienna, on top of a mountain. I let you imagine myself with my bags, the huge sun and that monster to climb... I arrived here, went straight to the shower, and then, I got the answer of the guy... Bastard

But I have to reckon the view from here is amazing! But (because there is always a but) there is no kitchen nor shop close from here... I need to take the bus (i will never walk that again) to buy something I can eat without cooking... Obviously, i wanted to go around the city tonight to enjoy a bit, but a strom is starting...

Well finaly, im not to sure about being alone in a hostel. With CouchSurfing I spent the 2 last days alone, but at night we went out for a drink and it was really cool. Here now everybody are 8 years old or 40 ... and there is no bar and no night bus...

Yeah what a party in Wien youloulou!

:) but im full of hope for tomorrow... its HAS to be better lol

day 376

Im now sitting in a cool flat in Prague. The keybord is complicated (ěýž are instead of the numbers, zy are inversed, etc) and there is no sink in the kitchen, but the guy hosting me, Jiří, is really cool.I start visiting yesterday in the summers sun and looks like it will be the same today!

Here some pictures now yeah!

I made a new friend in a park! Jinkuya to the man who gave me some food!



I made a new friend, Gzachou. His mom wanted me in the family so we dicided to get maried in the train. Thats why Im wearing very posh aluminium jewels!



But it wasnt working, so I went with Michou.


And then with Darek!



And finaly with Grabbash


Guys all went crazy of jalousy! Look at them now!


But Touchka didnt care about that. She was happy with babtcha Janina :)



The wariatchy crew in a silly club



And now only THE wariatka sirenka with the wariat clock of Praha. (Wariat means crazy... by the way haha)


My Sirenka by the river, she felt almost like home!


And final touch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffh9bFKVnQ

Day 375

I'm still in Poland, I left the polish crew behind me. I'm now alone with the presents they gave me, like a badmonton medal, a small bottle of shampoo. a metal band t-shirt and a Mermaid key ring. Helps me to wait for my train to Prague without feeling to lonely in front of all those zul, drunk and homeless polish hanging out at the train stations.

Poland was too much fun, I felt like with my good friends for 2 weeks. Partying a lot, eating too much as well, now I should be ready (tak tak yesten gotowy!) for the lonely trip... Will be like a rehab lol

Nie foto now because I am standing in the middle of a train station, inserting 1zł every 6 minutes to keep using the net, but I will as soon as I can.

If you search for justeyouloulou (original I know!) on youtube you'll find videos from my trip. For now there is only Grabbash (on of the guy who hosted Marta and I last weekend in their crazy flat) talking about shampoo. All right its more like a polish inside joke now, but more videos are to come!!

Ale Betchka!