<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9495455</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:49:45.112-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Europe 2003</title><subtitle type='html'>4 months of backpacking in europe by my self.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thorup.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9495455/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thorup.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Mikkel Thorup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02707139737140755716</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/portrat.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9495455.post-110322394389862853</id><published>2004-12-16T10:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-19T10:59:21.590-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/032_33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" style="WIDTH: 413px; HEIGHT: 228px" height="210" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/320/032_33.jpg" width="680" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; flew into London England on April first with pretty much no idea where I was going. Its was killer, I just went where ever I felt like, so much freedom. I'll give you a break down of where I went and how long I stayed in each place and then you can check out some of my photos from the trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 nights in London&lt;br /&gt;1 night in the bus&lt;br /&gt;4 nights in Paris (got to meet up with my friend Christian, saw a ton of museums and church's, even got to see Jim Morisan's grave)&lt;br /&gt;1 night in Brussels&lt;br /&gt;1 night in Bruge, photo &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/105_5.jpg"&gt;1,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/104_4.1.jpg"&gt;2,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/106_6.jpg"&gt;3,&lt;/a&gt; (such a pretty place)&lt;br /&gt;2 nights in Amsterdam&lt;br /&gt;3 nights in Harlem (had dinner with my great uncle who I had never met before)&lt;br /&gt;10 nights in Barcelona (flow here for Easter week) photos of La Sagrada Familia &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/103_3.jpg"&gt;1,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/102_2.jpg"&gt;2,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/101_1.jpg"&gt;3,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 night Valencia (rented a car for 3 days and went all the way down the cost of Spain)&lt;br /&gt;1 night Granada 1&lt;br /&gt;night Malaga&lt;br /&gt;4 nights Torremolinos (just sat on the beach all day long and read)&lt;br /&gt;1 night Algeciras&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/033_34.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/320/033_34.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 nights Fes (took a fiery from Spain to Tangier Morocco then trained it all the way to Fes in one day)&lt;br /&gt;photo's of Fes's &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/034_35.jpg"&gt;medina,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/037_38.jpg"&gt;street,&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/035_36.jpg"&gt;close&lt;/a&gt; up of the &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/036_37.jpg"&gt;tanneries.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 night in the bus (hell)&lt;br /&gt;1 night in Rissani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/029_30.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/320/029_30.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 nights out in the Sahara desert (did a three day camel trek into the dunes)&lt;br /&gt;Here's some photos of the &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/031_32.jpg"&gt;dunes&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/030_31.jpg"&gt;sunrise&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/026_27.jpg"&gt;sunset&lt;/a&gt; and the town of &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/027_28.jpg"&gt;Merzouga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;2 more nights in Rissani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/024_25.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/320/024_25.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 nights in &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/025_26.jpg"&gt;Tordra Gorge &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 nights in Marrakesh (so hot we couldn't go out durning the mid day sun, lol took maybe 10 cold showers a day. Good orange juice though)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/201_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/320/201_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 nights in &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/023_24.jpg"&gt;Essaouira&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are photos of &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/207_7.jpg"&gt;me&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/018_19.jpg"&gt;Elly&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/205_5.jpg"&gt;Natalie&lt;/a&gt;, watching the &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/019_20.jpg"&gt;sunset&lt;/a&gt; every night we where together on the &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/017_18.jpg"&gt;coast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;3 nights in Sidi Kaouki&lt;br /&gt;2 nights in Marrakesh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/012_12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/320/012_12.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 nights camping at the base of &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/011_11.jpg"&gt;Cascade D'Ouzoud &lt;/a&gt;(Rob and me swam and went cliff diving every day with the local kids)&lt;br /&gt;1 night Azilal&lt;br /&gt;2 nights Casablanca (got food poisoning, but what i saw of the city was pretty impressive, especially the Hasson second mosque)&lt;br /&gt;2 nights Robat&lt;br /&gt;1 night Fes&lt;br /&gt;1 night Algeciras (back into Spain after a very long day of travel)&lt;br /&gt;1 night Seville&lt;br /&gt;2 nights Mataluseanas&lt;br /&gt;3 nights Lagos (took the bus into Portugal and just sat on the beach and did a little surfing))&lt;br /&gt;1 night Lisbon&lt;br /&gt;2 nights Sintra&lt;br /&gt;2 nights Evora (saw the creepy &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/009_9.jpg"&gt;Chapel of Bones &lt;/a&gt;made out of an estimated &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/010_10.jpg"&gt;10,000 human skulls and femur bones&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;1 night bus and train (such a long trip threw Portugal, Spain and France)&lt;br /&gt;1 night Roujan&lt;br /&gt;2 nights Montpellier&lt;br /&gt;1 night Beliers&lt;br /&gt;5 nights Roujan&lt;br /&gt;1 night Montpellier&lt;br /&gt;3 nights London (flew from Montpellier to Paris and Paris to London. Rob set me up with a few of his friends to stay with)&lt;br /&gt;then back to Toronto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the best highlights from where the people i met while on the road. First and foremost was &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/182/2606/640/020_21.jpg"&gt;Elly&lt;/a&gt; and Natalie from Switzerland. Those girls kicked ass, we traveled together for 4 weeks in Morocco and went threw some much.&lt;br /&gt;Danny and her boyfriend Lear from Oz and New Zealand where another wicked couple i met while traveling.&lt;br /&gt;In Barcelona I hung out with Moni a German girl and some other Germans during Easter weekend. We had a blast partying and seeing the sights of one of Spain's most beautiful cites.&lt;br /&gt;And then there was my buddy Rob who i traveled on and off with for almost 2 months. Wicked guy, helped me out a ton, him and his family.&lt;br /&gt;I met so many other amazing people, too many to name. 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