Let's Make This A Real EuroTrip

Joan and I want to take full advantage of the perks of working for a major airline company. Beginning in Janurary of 2009 we are going to try our hardest to visit all the cities/countries Ryanair flies to. This includes Gothenburg City, Fes, Stockholm, The United Kingdom,Marrakesch,Brussles,Prague,Paris,Frankfurt,Dusseldorf,Budapest,Bari,Florence,

Pisa,Rome,Cork,Shannon,Dublin,Venice,Verona,Malta,Eindhoven,Bratislava,Ibiza,Alicante,Madrid,

Malaga,Glasgow,Edinburgh and tons more. The first few months our budget will be quite small as I'm planning to go to the states for two weeks and I know I will need money. Hopefully we can squeeze a budget trip sometime in Feburary for our Anniversary/Valentines and after March begin our weekend expeditions. Although Oslo is one of the places I'd love to go first while the powder is fresh on the ground (pictured above).

Work is always getting busier but I have more responsibilities now as does Joan so let's hope better pay goes along with it. I am very lucky to have a job now, we both are. Times are tough and a lot of people are out of work. A few of my friends here don't have jobs because they aren't EU Citizens. I thank God everyday for the blessing of work. Elizabeth reminds me of this often. So, whichever job you have hold on to it!

Anyway, traveling is a big goal I have for this year as well as many others but I won't get ahead of myself, I will need a New Years Post after all.

This weekend I'll be "traveling" to Lloret for Joan's mother's birthday festivities and will probably spend time with Shabir and Albert. Poor guy is going through a lot right now, more than any person should have to deal with: and I haven't seen him in quite awhile so that will be nice.

Kind Regards to all of you in the states

Ciao Bellas

photos courtesy of visitoslo.com and ryanair.com

Internet

Joan and I have been waiting almost a month for our internet to be installed. I long for the days of sitting on the couch with the laptop and researching things like, how to bake apple pie, celeb gossip, news in the states or searching blogs. It's a love hate relationship though. I would love to have internet to surf the web, use skype to talk with friends, check my email at night etc but also I hate having it because either Joan or I are glued to it. Since we haven't had it, I read more, we do more around the house or we go out of the house. Besides, being on a computer all day at work doesn't exactly make me want to jump one another once I'm at home. However, I would be able to upload all my photos from the last month if I had internet-I'm way behind. I also wouldnn't have to write quick blogs inbetween my work during the day, I really do hate having to steal seconds to check my email and well, write this post.
If Joan's calculations are correct, we will have internet sometime next week. I will try to set boundaries on time alloted to blogging, surfing and facebooking but I realize in the beginning I will be like a moth to the flourescent light of a bug zapper. Blogging is like breathing, I've heard another wise blogger state, I feel that same way. It is my relaxing moment in a not so relaxing day.

Ciao

Me Encanta

GRACIAS
DeNADA

was wonderful. I learned a lot, drank some of the best wine in the south, walked all over the city, shopped in the best boutiques in the city, spent quality time with my sister-in-law, relaxed in the Arab baths, visited the Alhambra and had experiences to last a lifetime.

More to come.