The End

I will be re-vamping this blog soon since I am no longer in England (and hopefully will no longer be jobless in the not too distant future). For those of you that don't know, I could only legally stay in England for 6 months. I am now back in the states and Simon will come back in June when he finishes school. We are very sad to be apart, but I just remind myself of all the single moms and military wives out there and tell myself to get it together and be grateful it is only 3 months. Shout out to those moms and wives! I am staying with my parents in Boise for the time being. I have applied to jobs in Boise and in Utah and will go wherever I find work. I had some interviews last week in Utah and am just waiting to hear back. Wish me luck!

I will send out a new link for my re-vamped blog as soon as I get around to doing it. Thanks for reading about our travels and our life in England these past couple of months. I wish I had started the blog when we first arrived. I might do some belated posts from our trips around England and to Paris. We'll see.

Travel List: Best and Worst of Europe

Simon and I thought it would be fun to compose a list of the best and worst things we experienced while traveling Europe. In the 6 months we were both there, we were blessed to visit 8 different countries.

Country and City List

England- Liverpool, Preston, Colne, Wycoller, London, the Lake District, Birmingham, and Manchester
Wales- Snowdon and Conwy
France- Paris
Spain- Barcelona
Germany- Bremen
Italy- Rome
Denmark- Copenhagen
Scotland- Edinburgh

Travel List

Best Single Food Item: Potato pizza in Rome (Kelsey) and the croissants in Paris (Simon)
Worst: Pate in England (Kelsey) and the fried fish in Barcelona (Simon)

Best Dessert/Sweet: Schmalzkuchen in Bremen (Kelsey) and dark chocolate gelato in Rome (Simon)
Worst: Candies in general from Spain (Kelsey and Simon)

City With Most Things To Do: Paris
Least Things To Do: Bremen (in its defense, it was a small city)

Best Weather: Barcelona in November... 70's the whole time and no rain
Worst: Paris, it rained a few times while we were there

Cleanest City: Bremen
Dirtiest: Rome

Best Public Transportation: Copenhagen
Worst: Rome

Nicest Place We Stayed: Hotel U232 in Barcelona
Worst: Ibis in Bremen

Best Airport To Travel Through: Liverpool
Worst: Paris Beauvais

Most Helpful People: Rome... we had a bus driver leave his bus to walk us to where we needed to go- so nice!
Least Helpful: Most of the places we went people were wonderful, so no complaints on this

Most Scenic: Northern Wales
Least: Rome

Most Fashionable: The men in Germany
Least: Couldn't really think of one... they are all kind of the same

Country Wished Had More Time In: Italy (Kelsey) and Spain (Simon)

Best City To Do In A Day: Edinburgh, Scotland or Chester, England

Overall Favorite Place Visited: Germany (Kelsey- it was during Christmas time with all the Christmas markets so I feel I might be bias) and same for Simon

One Place We Wished We Could Have Visited: Poland and Brussels (Kelsey) and Austria (Simon)

We highly recommend buying a DK Top 10 Travel Guide if you ever plan on going somewhere. The books are great, small, and have maps in them. We bought one for every city we went to (that was available through them) and loved them. Also, I recommend going to VRBO.com to look at places to stay before going through hotels and hostels. I usually found good places that were pretty inexpensive through this. If you are traveling with 3+ people it is very ideal.

Happy Travels!