Europa

Having stayed in Finland for an astounding one and a half weeks, I am once again on the road. Quite literally actually. I'm touring Europe with my family. So far we have visited Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg (albeit for less than an hour), France, Switzerland and Italy.

Major events so far include a fantastic pizza I had in Ystad, Sweden. Who would've believed I taste the best pizza ever in Sweden? It even had parma ham in it, and now that I am in parma I haven't actually eaten any ham here...

Also the discovery of a fantastic city of Metz in France. We just went there because it was on our way to Germany's Europapark. It is such a beautiful city and the people were so friendly, despite the fact that we didn't really speak any French.

Switzerland on the other hand was a slight disappointment. It was expensive, confusing and the hotel staff was almost rude.

And now we're in Parma. The hotel is excellent, fully intend to write a good review on tripadvisor. The city of Parma was kinda blaah. But we went to Lerici yesterday, close to La Spezia, and that was beautiful! Though being in Italy, the siesta is slightly annoying and the fact that they eat so late. We tried to find a place to eat at 14.30 but found all the kitchens were closed...

Tomorrow we're going to Maranello, daddy wants to watch formula 1 there... And on Monday we're heading to the French Riviera. The plan is to visit the Champagne region as well so that we get to visit some champagne cellars. Yummy.

So good times ahead.

Reality check

Back from Florida. I think I will want to visit it again which in my mind determines it as a good holiday. I liked Miami's South Beach, skyscapers are fabulous, especially in the night. On the other hand I'd also like to go to Orlando again to visit Disneyland. The people were friendly enough, I managed to master tipping and the weather was lovely.

On the other hand, check ins at the hotels were rarely easy, the hotels varied in quality, driving a car took forever and for the life of me I don't understand why they can't add the taxes to the prices.

Now I'm back in Newcastle, jet-lagged as hell. Thankfully I'm only staying here until tomorrow when my blessed flight to Finland departs. Back in Finland I'm told to expect temperatures up to 30degrees which sounds excellent. Also it will be Minna's birthday so weheyhey. And then on Monday we depart on our trip around Europe so I won't be stayin still for a long time. :)

If only it was tomorrow already.