Germany & Rome

Stayed with Meike in Augsburg, Germany for a 4 days- had a ball hanging out with her and her flatmates! Then flew to Rome. I wanted to change my flight so that I skipped Rome altogether and flew home via Syndey... but wasn't able to. I have to stay in Rome for 5 nights, but I was able to get a flight home from bangkok only a few hours after I land there- so Im home at 6.30 saturday morning!

Its been quite cool here in Rome, it is a lot nicer than I expected- the guys arent as sleazy as I had heard, and the weather has been beautiful- no jumpers needed!
Very much looking forward to going home though!

Oh, and for the first time in just over 11 months I had a flight mishap! First, 5 minutes before my flight was boarding I had to run back to the check in desk (10 minutes running away), get my passport and run back to my gate ( get through security again too!). Then boarded my flight sweaty, hot and tired... but with my passport in hand.

If thats not enough drama for one flight... on landing in Rome I went to get my bag... I waited... and waited... then I realised that there was no one else waiting for bags, and the same bags were going around and around on the conveyor belt. So I went to the lost baggage desk, quoted my bag, flight number etc and she says "Oh yes, your bag is in Frankfurt"
me- "ah, ok... when will it get here?"
"It will come on the next flight, 11 pm tonight"

Anyway, I tried contacting both Lufthanser about its whereabouts and my insurance company to see what they could do... Lufthanser gave me no insight about its whereabouts... and I couldnt get on to lufthanser.
Now it is 11am and my bag has just arrived, and am very eager to have a shower and get into some clean clothes!

I thought it was rather strange though that it was the first flight hiccup that has happened to me in 11 months of traveling, when I only have a short time before I get home.

Wales

Cardiff
Euch- Cardiff was not an enjoyable experience for me at all! I arrived there tired, short on money and having no idea where I wanted to go next! The best thing about Cardiff was leaving it... when I found a hostel in Fishguard to that was only £60 per week!

Cardiff Castle

FISHGUARD
Loads and loads of relaxing :)



St Davids Cathedral

Weekend @ Fitzy's - Whistler Kids

Taunton, Sommerset

Look out Wimbledon, we're going Pro!
Oops- Sorry Sean!
Fitzy's Farm

Europe with Ashley

Greece

Athens: Amazing! my expectations were pretty low, didn't really know much about the city I spent 2 days visiting all the ruins- Acrpolis, Ancient Agora, Roman Agora etc, pretty much just wondering around and soaked it up!

Paros


Ios

Santorini

Budapest- Hungary

Bratislava- Slovakia

Ceski Krumlov - Czech Republic

Prague - Czech Republic





London

Willkommen in Deutchland

Hallo meine Freundin,

I arrived in Frankfurt without any troubles. Except, Meike told me to call her when I arrived at the airport... which I did... but when I called, a voice said "Sorry call back later." I was so confused. It turns out she was at work and not able to talk at the point... she had started a new job or something. Anyway I waited about 1 1/2 hours.. then called again. This time no one picked up. I killed time chatting with an American guy I met who slept the night in the airport and was flying out at 1pm. After waiting around 5 hours all up I finally got in contact with Meike and caught the train to meet her in Schweinfurt. Had a loverly dinner with her and her parents, with Meike trying to enable us all to take part in a bi lingual conversation... her parents speaking German and a bit of English, Meike speaking fluently in both... and me speaking English and attempting to remeber a few things in German!

A soft warm bed was very welcome to my tired eyes and body! went to bed at 10.30 and didn't get up until 11am the next morning :) I still felt utterly exhausted though!

I spent around 4 1/2 hours on the train and I am now in München (Munich). I am lucky enough to be staying with Meike's sister at her place just outside the city. I am in the process of trying to meet up with Ashley and get down to Athens in time for our tour around the Greek islands... which starts on the 13th! Trying very hard to not spend too much money... its hard though, everything is soooo expensive!

Tschüß,

Kat

Canada, a retrospective

I'm now in Toronto... but thought seeing I was so slack at keeping up to date with what I've been up to, that I would go back and fill you in on a little.

Nov 21st - April 23rd WHISTLER 5 Months

Well... Working in Whistler seems like such a long time ago now! But it was great. Expensive, but great.

Westside- Staff Housing


Creekside Ski Hill
Creekside Staff Party

Australia Day

Braid Day- Creekside Staff

Working hard!

Skiing


Tip: If you work for the mountain, take savings with you! Don't expect to be able to sustain yourself on what you get paid. Work 4 days rather than 5 or more... its supposed to be a holiday yeah? I worked 4 days, had 2 days to go up the mountain and 1 day just to chill out.

April 25th - 28th TOFINO 4 Days

May 1st- June 4th ROADTRIP!! 5 Weeks

Me, Stewy, Euge & Soph

Snug as a bug in a rug @ Mt St Helens
Visiting Alcatraz
Yosemite National Park

Lake something...
Astro (the van) got bogged

Kayaking in Mexico



June 5th- July 1st SUMMER IN WHISTLER 1 Month



July 2nd Canada with Mum

I'm still here :) Rockin on in Whistler

February:
Time is passing so quickly- still having an wicked time!!
I'm in Vancouver at the moment

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Wow, what to say... things just keep getting better and better!! Sorry It's taken me so long to make another post, I've just been having way too much fun!

Christmas: No white Christmas... :( It was unusually warm in the week surrounding Christmas- but the food and company made up for it!
I was invited by the pastor of Church on the Mountain (Chad) and his Wife (Stacey) to a Christmas dinner at their house for people that haven't got family to spend Christmas with. Stacey did most of the cooking... both her parents are gourmet chef's.... and everything she cooked were recipes that her parents had passed down to her. Needless to say it was amazing!!!!!! The week before we had our Christmas party at the Fairmont, awesome dinner- the turkey was fantastic- the most tender and yummy I had ever tasted... but that was before Christmas Dinner at Chad & Stacey's!! Their's was better than fantastic! The mashed potato was so soft and delicious, the carrot, roast potato, kumera, bread rolls- amazing!!! And then the mulled wine- amazingly delicious! I've never tasted something so yummy! So anyway, I sat there feeling so content, it was bliss! And then , there were the chocolate truffles for dessert!

Wow, I am in 7th Heaven just thinking about it all again now- ahhh, bliss!

New Years Eve:
I went to a houseparty about 20 minutes from my place, with quite an imbalance between guys and girls ( around 5 guys to every girl!). It started out pretty small, but gradually more and more people arrived. We had the countdown out on a small pontoon on the lake. I was so surprised that nobody fell in! We had to leave the house shortly after though, coz it was staff housing, and we were only supposed to have around 8 people there... whoops! So anyway we wandered the streets for about an hour and a half while we waited to be let back into the party again. It had cooled down a fair bit by the time New Years came around- so there was lots of fresh snow around- perfect for making snowballs! Mum- There were "lots of nice boys" there (from whom I got lots of attention!) and we had a massive snowball fight in the streets! Ahhh, fun times!

Anyway, I'm just soooo content at the moment, everything is awesome! Love you all heaps,
Kat