Good morning from SF. I am watching last night Australian Open Women's final this morning (I missed it last night do to a dinner). What a great match.
I can't believe that I depart in 8 months and 6 days! I am starting to get organized here - putting clothes in my other room, started shoe boxes with travel items (toothpaste, deodorant, laundry detergent, etc.).
I must do these things now when I have time. As things have picked up quite a bit at work in the last 2 weeks - I have only had 2 days off (both Saturday's) and I am wiped. I am earning this vacation.
Last weekend I got 2 pair of shoes for the cruise - as the shoes I had from my last cruise were too tight when my feet swelled - sliver slip on with a 1 inch heel and flip flops with jewels on them. I also picked up some clothes at Old Navy all between $6 and $15 (1 pair of shorts, 2 pair of pants, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of capris and a tee) and a long black flowy skirt at Burlington for $10.
I had dinner the other week at a little French restaurant here and talked with them about Corsica and Villefranche (Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo). Sounds like Nice is what I will be doing. Then went to a little Italian place and found out they have a sister restaurant in Florence that I am going to try to seek out.
Someone mentioned cheap alcohol in Barcelona - I am in need of a store to get some wine for the cruise. My roomie and plan to pick-up a case prior to our 10 day and buy some in the ports during the 10 day for the transatlantic. So if anyone knows of one please let me know.
Thinking about getting an iPod Touch for the trip, but not sure if there is a lot of free wi-fi in Europe as there is here in SF. Anyone have any insights that live over yonder or have traveled there.
I hope to check in at least 1x a week going forward and say No to work. Logging off to do some laundry, pay the bills, get the taxes ready to send to the accountant, do some filing, and cleaning the house all before 7 pm when I have dinner with some friends. Have a great weekend and happy February.
Does anyone know if it's possible to WALK to the port from the hotel if your luggage has wheels and is easy to manipulate ( I am rubbish at estimating distance). That would eliminate all the taxi hassle.
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not suggest it. I thought it would be do able in 2007. Sent the luggage on the bus from the hotel (Disney Transfer) and went off sightseeing (so basically paid the money so we did not have to drag our luggage around the city prior to check-in). We walked the Ramblas and tried to find the bus from the Columbus Monument to the port and could not find it so started to walk. Ended up taking a flagging cab to take us the last bit (we got to the bridge that goes to the port but my dad was done with the walking and that was without luggage).
Not any more. Absinthe is available is some bars in San Francisco. I have had it a few times and like it.
That sounds good to us. If we pay cash (euros) then there would be no conversion/credit card fees...correct?
Capital One Credit Cards to not charge a conversion fee (at least the last time I checked). Those of you in the US may want to look into getting one for the cruise. I plan to put the cruise on my Chase card and use my Capital One card while in ports.
It's in the works. I had time set aside last weekend, but spent that time removing the 100 or so new registrations spamming us with viagra and cialis, then figuring out how them from coming back. So far I've been able to stop it without using CAPTCHA (the annoying distorted graphics from which you have to decipher the text).
I'll try to get to it this weekend, but have much on the honey-do list, as well as getting ready for another baseball season, as I created and manage the website for my son's league.
Thanks so much for you work on the site.
isn't that stuff illegal ??????
