Go FLICKR yourself.

Here's my first post to this co-operative Blog.
If anyone is interested in seeing the many photographs of buildings, architectural details, and overweight men in mesh tank tops that we plan on taking, please, feel free to visit our newly established flickr photostream by clicking here . If the link is doesn't work, search for our account name, yankeeineurope. It will be updated erratically and at odd hours of the night, whenever Jane and I get the opportunity to score some sweet internet connection.
If you have any suggestions for the two of us regarding what to see, eat, read, or do, please don't hesitate to share that with us! Especially if it involves good food, sites or stories.

Still Booking...

Bobby and I are 5 days away from departure and have yet to fully book all of our flights. Bobby is cool as a cucumber about it and I am a little nervous that we might be spending 31 days in Athens trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The itinerary of our trip is fully set now, complete with stops in 7 major European cities and 5 countries thanks to a mixture of trains and easyjet flights. Click on the map to the left to see the journey. Here is where we will be and when:

July 4th - July 9: Scotland - visiting Jane's family and showing Bobby just how legit the Scots are by sailing in the North Sea.

July 9th - July 14: Athens, Greece - staying in a moderately well-rated hotel by the Plaka, hopefully eating the best kebabs in our lives and enjoying the wonders of hosting the Olympics brings to a transportation system.

July 14th - July 21: Rome, Italy - fulfilling Bobby's fantasy to see churches and streets designed by famous Renaissance Architects and Jane's fantasy for espresso and tartufo (dark chocolate gelato). And competing to see who can say "When in Rome' the most times in a day.

July 21 - July 23: Florence, Italy - staying in a river-side hotel very close to Ponte Vecchio pretending we know more about Michelangelo than we do.

July 23 - July 26: Paris, France - staying in the cheapest accommodations Paris has to offer (besides the Gare du Nord train station benches) while eating chocolate croissants and reenacting our mutual favorite movie 'Amelie'.

July 26 - August 1: Berlin, Germany - doing the hostel thing in a renovated, supposedly-historical building while enjoying a slew of World War II memorials, museums and excellent post-Cold War architecture and probably some awesome beer.

August 2 - August 9: Stateside, Connecticut - recharging our batteries visiting Bobby's family before we return to the hardest school year of our lives.

Hopefully we'll be updating our blog as often as possible but no promises on daily updates because our access to the Internet will probably be as bumpy as the beds we will be sleeping in. See you all in a month!