http://blog.cbl.us Just a few random things about cbl Fri, 14 May 2010 17:35:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're going to England/Scotland in August. Touring the Scottish Highlands by Car. Here's our car ride: View Larger Map more later. http://blog.cbl.us/2010/05/14/going-to-scotland/ Here are a couple of random observations that I gathered throughout Europe. Rome seems to be cheaper to do stuff in, although the first two weeks of September in Rome are the busiest travel season Indians (those from India) seem to be the "Mexicans" of London You have to pay extra for Ketchup ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/10/05/random-europe-thoughts/ So I had an interesting thought this morning... The dow went down 777 yesterday which was 7% (truly 6.98%, but everywhere is rounding up) after the house didn't pass the bill for a 700 billion bailout/rescue. I noticed that there are a lot of 7s. Think it means anything? http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/30/7s/ We arrived at JFK a little less than an hour ago. Seven hour flight from London Hethrow Airport this morning to JFK. Got to watch a few movies and stretch out in the comfy Business Elite seats during the time. Around 4 hours from now we get ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/25/back/ We spent three days in Rome. It was the highlight of our trip. Sammi got plenty of boots for cheap, and it seemed to be the least expensive city to buy stuff and do stuff in. We had a couple of tours of the middle of Rome and the ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/22/rome-paris-and-london/ As Randy pointed out in a previous comment, the Chunnel tunnel had a fire.. well one of the tunnels caught on fire. Shut the whole thing down for a day or so. Looks like they are open again according to Eurostar website, but only 12 trains a ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/17/chunnel-burned-oh-nos/ So today was our last day in Switzerland. It was a rather breathtaking one. We woke up around 8:15 or so and went and got breakfast. All the clouds were gone. Yeah! So we packed up our bags after breakfast and showering and caught a train from Interlaken West to ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/17/last-day-in-switzerland/ Day 4 was spent entirely in Germany. We slept in (in Frankfurt) and took a train to Rüdesheim. A few stops before Rüdesheim there were a bunch of people that got off. I figured it was for a futbol match since a lot of them were singing and wearing their ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/15/days-4-5/ We arrived in Amsterdam Schipol Airport around 10am local time. It was a rather uneventful flight. At JFK we had an hour between our connecting flights so I wanted to go into the Crown Room, since we could because of our tickets. Turns out it is just a big ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/14/days-1-3/ So I'm sitting here in the McCarran Airport.. waiting for Gate D41 to open up and let us board our first of two flights to Europe. Fun things I have noticed so far: There are two Italian guys across from us chatting it up. I can pick up a ... http://blog.cbl.us/2008/09/10/off-we-go/