Joey and Jill’s Travel Blog

Well…we made it! 35 days in Europe and we are exhausted, homesick, overloaded with art, but still very much in love…so that is a plus! We have loved our adventure here…and it has been a fly by the seat of your pants type of adventure. But we are definitely ready to get back to the ones we love and tell y’all about it. We won’t be back in Eugene until Thursday afternoon, but we will be in Portland tomorrow night which is a kind of surreal thought.

We have really loved writing this blog. It not only kept you all updated on our travels but we can now look back on it and remember each day we spent here. So, thank you for reading and writing back to us and we can’t wait to see everyone on the other side of the pond!

Much love,

J&J

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Hi all!

Today Joey and I walked London…like ALL of London. We went to all of the awesome touristy places like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, London Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe, Millenium Bridge, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and more. Lots of parks. We walked for about 4 hours and sat at Young’s Brewery pub and had fish and chips and beer. It was a much needed refreshment! Turns out, fish and chips in London aren’t much different than in the states…ours might even be better and less expensive! That was the only splurge of our trip though…it’s pretty much been a lot of peanut butter and jelly and smelly hostels…but we really are having the time of our lives!

Tomorrow we are off to my homeland…hopefully we can find it! But if we don’t post for a while it’s probably just because we are staying in a really small Scotish village that doesn’t have internet or we became Nessie’s latest victims :)

So…tonight we just hung out with my and now Joey’s friend Emily and we are going to get some sleep to prepare for our adventure tomorrow. We are having so much fun and love the UK so far! Joey is an amazing travel partner as he is down for anything and we generally want to do the same things anyway.

It is a bit colder here than I personally was prepared for so I am wearing a lot of layers and missing my peacoats that are sitting safely in my closet back home. We miss you all very much and we will post pictures from our adventures today soon…

Joey is a bit dissapointed by the lack of hops in the IPA here in London, so Jeff send some hoppy thoughts our way. But the beer selection is generally amazing and we are excited to try some guiness in Ireland and some obscure Scotish brews soon.

We love you all and will post again ASAP. Keep us in your thoughts and don’t worry, we have been keeping up with the US news here in London as they are much more world aware than our news seems to be at times…so we will be updated and crossing our fingers for you know who :)

Oh, update on the white coffee…about 2 seconds after Joey posted that last post he took a sip of his “coffee” and there was a little extra sludge in it! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gross I can’t put it in words. Joey looked so sick and said a lot of choice words as I proceeded to laugh very hard for a few minutes and felt grateful that I didn’t take a sip of mine :) FYI…we discovered that “white” just means with milk but it will forever  the most disgusting/funniest experience of Joey and Jill’s life.

Ok…that’s about  all for now. Much love to you all! Leave us comments and let us know how things are going back home!

Cheers!

J&J

Hey all, we have made it to sunny London. Well, actually it feels exactly like Oregon in the fall, but with a bunch more old buildings. I totally forgot to bring the correct memory card to show you all pics of our hostel room so instead you get our pretty mugs on the 10hr flight.

Everything has gone smoothly so far minus walking in the wrong direction trying to find our hostel, but it was no big deal because walking is awesome. We are in an internet cafe right now and it reminds me of Mexico more than it does something English, and when Jill and I ordered coffee I hoped they would just have drip coffee. After I asked there was an awkward pause and the non-white guy working the counter asked if I wanted “white” coffee, I smiled and said sure. I think he made us an americano but I am not sure. I think the “white” literally refered to my complexion, but I am still not sure.

So Jill is pulling on my sleeve begging to get like four beers so we are out until next time. And for anyone leaving comments if it doesn’t show up right away don’t worry, we have to approve them before they show up. Don’t want Daddy Dehnert saying anything inappropriate. Bye!

<3 Joey and Jill