Wednesday, February 25, 2009

hello world.

meet the main travelling circus for this summer's european extravaganza (from left to right) steve nusbaum, me (steve ng) and rich pak.

we are currently in "planning" mode for the trip, and i use quotation marks because the first time we tried to meet, we just got drunk instead. is this a sign of things to come? no. and when i say "no", i mean maybe. and when i say "maybe", i mean very likely.

we have thus far booked our flights into europe (via paris to meet up with the very lovely andree st.germain who will join us for a few weekends of travel) and nusbaum was the first to fall prey to the craftiness inherent in all of rich's and my bretheren - nusbaum (the biggest guy out of all of us... although not the biggest steve in the program... another story for a later time) is sitting bitch for the flight to paris.

i am currently trying to recruit peeps to join up with us on our travels and so far, i believe i have gotten the ear of good friends of mine, jason landry, kim chen (not a picture of her, but she can do this kind of thing. it's awesome), rob (and mina) kim, and perhaps ashtar zubair.

current places to hit up: lisbon, barcelona, paris, amsterdam, istanbul, athens, venice, rome, zurich, london, dublin, berlin, vienna, prague, kiev, nice, monaco (start of the tour de france)
new ones since initial brainstorm: cinque terra, florence, pompeii, normandy, salzburg, somewhere in the alps to camp and hike as well
ones i might drop: istanbul, lisbon, kiev

i will be gallivanting from may 20 to july 23, and a warm-up will occur in las vegas on the may 15-17 weekend. come on out and join in the fun. derek bideshi will be there on a stag, but i'm sure we'll whoop it up vancouver style.

4 comments:

  1. update: david paulin = spain = meet up = goodtimes

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  2. whoops. forgot that ms veronica piatka has also expressed some beach time with the lads.

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  3. You can do Nice, Monaco and Cannes in 2 days- they are very close to one another. The beach in Cannes is nicer than in Nice (sand vs. rock). If you rent a car in that area there is much more to see/do. Let me know if you need any advice on that region. You can very easily go onto to Cinque Terre from the South of France. However, my advice- don't plan, just go! Everything will change once you get there anyways!

    Oh and easyjet.com is another low cost one.

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  4. Don't drop Istanbul - it's fantastic. Watch out for the Turkish baths tho...The city is definitely worth the $$ (or lack thereof).

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