Paris has been nothing but a series of WOWS. These past couple of days have been great, even though the hostel hasn't. I am consistently struggling w/ bad internet… oh well. Yesterday was sight after sight! So much has happened in the past couple of days alone, it would almost be dumb to try and recount everything I saw, and repetitive to just keep on saying WOW with every event. But it was. Around every street, every grand boulevard, WOW. The French really k...

I have to admit, for my first hour in Amsterdam, I hated the place!!! London was easy, it was all English, and in preparation for the Olympics, they had printed out very convenient, small, pocket-sized brochures that detailed the underground tube system. In Amsterdam, there was no such luxury awaiting on my arrival. It took me a while to first get money transferred into Euros. Then, I had to figure out how to get to my hostel. I wandered around in Amsterdam Cen...

Olympic Park was a trip. It is atleast 50 acres, with several different facilities, including the swimming complex, Olympic Stadium, the bicycling complex, the diving complex and so on. You cannot even get into the park unless you have a ticket. I got in, took a bunch of pics and was in heaven. With 80,000 people in Olympic Stadium, I felt right at home. It was amazing to hear that many people clap for pole vaulters, ooh and ahh for the women's shotput, and yel...