HELP!

We are going to be homeless from tommorow for several days.

We sent 20 emails out for couchsurfing in Rome a week ago and have got no responses.
The hostels are either full or ridiculously expensive for New Years.
This is the same in all nearby areas.

If anyone knows someone living in Rome or nearby (even a dubious `friend of a friend` type linkage), EMAIL US IMMEDIATELY.

It is still too cold to sleep outside and in Rome we would almost certainly get robbed.

Dial .ch for Switzerland

For some reason websites in Switzerland end with .ch. Imnot sure if the Swiss are retarded (Although we have seen a disproportionate number of retards/schizo`s/jamies) or they just cant spell. Surely .sw would have been more appropriate seeing as there are no c`s or h`s in Swityerland. Anyway that aside our fortunes in Zürich have improved dramitically as we do have a place to stay and we even went up this big hill today and got a splendid view of Zürich, the lake, the Alps and the Swiss countryside. It was almsot as good as looking at Lucy. Tomorrow I think we go to Rome but im not sure. Probably though. Sounds good. Yay for planning. On a lighter note I like marzipan and free library internet. Just thought you`d like to know. Oh yeah and last night we slept in the train station... and then McDonalds but then we got kicked out and slept in the train station again. It was mean. The schizo that I mentioned earlier was this crazy lady who sounded eastern european or something and she was speaking into this phone in english and it was weird. Something about her getting Fr. 3000 for killing woman...? I thought she was a mail order wife/hooker talking to her husband/pimp but we`ll never know. Saved 50 bucks by not getting a room. It was sweet.

Die Schweiz -more like Scheiss

We are in Zurich. It is cold. We have no place to stay because couchsurfing has been down for a bit so the girl that was going to host us ha`snt got back in contact. Also, this keyboard is really fucked up -like every country we go to has a different arrangement but this is just crazy.

My eyes are soiled and Risiko

Hello again everyone hope you saw snow today because we sure didnt. Today whilst Al moped about his German cold- I wonder where he got it from.... Arne, Malte, Birte, their cousin and I went to Ostsee-Therme which was like this swimming complex on the Baltic sea. So we went watersliding and swimming and had a dip in the Baltic. If you look on the map you'll realise its a fuck load more north than Invercargill is south. So that was cold but to warm up we had a 90c sauna. That was hot. But the naked people were not. Why do no hot people go into the naked saunas? And thus my eyes are soiled. Anyway that was cool and then there was Risiko, and I didnt win. Yes thats right I didnt win. I know that shocked alot of you but its true. I was wedged in a most unfortunate of positions and never held more than two continents. Al lost. No suprises. Even after Malte let Al hide inside his territory. Al made it up to him by capturing the entirety of Malte's interior. Didnt affect much though. In the end Malte won. Just. But it was close and exciting and I'm on a sugar high. So it's sweet. Haha pun. I wasnt going to add the pun bit but then Al suggested I do so I did. I'm such a comic genius.

The 25th is Gunther's birthday, not Christmas.

Some of you will know that the German's do their Christmas thingy on the 24th. Today is the 25th. It is Malte's Dad's birthday (Malte is Greg's family's exchange student).

Malte slept with a 14 year old in Greg's bed when he was in New Zealand. I just thought I should mention that. Apparently she didn't need to shave...

Anyway, so Greg, Malte, Arne and possibly Birte too (I'm not really paying attention) went swimming but I decided to flag because I've caught some crazy German cold and feel like shit. Not that this would stop me drinking tonight if the opportunity still exists. So I took a nap. It was epic. Speaking of epic, we are playing a game of Risk/Risiko tonight. With Germans. Over Christmas dinner Malte was talking shit about New Zealand never conquering anything so we'd be shit at Risk and Greg says 'What was that country we conquered in Europe? Begins with a G... Oh that's right, Germany!' This actually didn't go down badly, though I'm glad he refrained from yelling 'Kristalnacht all over again' when someone broke a glass.

Everyone else has gone... somewhere. So I'm hanging out with the dog, the turtles and the fish.

We head to Zurich in a few days, and then on to Rome.

Frohe Weihnachten

Merry Christmas and all of that. It is not white. Except for the sky. And the people. But not as white as before. Even Geisenhausen had some foreigns. Well one foreign. And a foreign shop.

I havent posted in a long time

Hello everyone, my name is Greg and if you've been on this site in the last two weeks you wouldn't have seen me. Dont ask me why I havent posted in a while because if you do i'll tell you that Al was a computer hog. And also he set it up so that I cant change the format of the page. Basically Al has been telling all the cool stories and all I get to do is tell him what to write. All the innapropriate stuff however was written by Al. He deletes it if I put it up. We are in some village, somwhere near Lübeck, Germany or possibly Norway. And apparently the 24th is like christmas. So merry Christmas. Although when you read this it'll probably be Christmas there too.
Have a happy time in New Zealand and wherever else! Hope it gets above 13C because its almost that warm here!

The Soap

We are currently back in Berlin on our way up to Lübeck for Christmas. It's good that I like train travel.

It's not Greg's fault we are in Berlin again. The 'timetables' are to blame apparently.

Some guy was staggering around the train on drugs or something so got escorted off at Leipzig by the police. He is gonna be so gutted when he sobers up tommorow, and not just 'cause he's in Leipzig and it looks a bit of a shit hole.

So yesterday we went with my exchange student's sister and her boyfriend to Munich to go to this fair thingy that's where Oktoberfest is (I actually went to this Tolwood thing last time I was in Germany and got hammered. Mean). It was possibly the most awkward ride ever because the fought the whole way and unfortunately I could understand them. They have some serious issues -she may or may not have fallen asleep during sex. And it was only when we were in Munich that Jane decided to tell Johannis that I can understand German. But on the plus side, we did 210km/h on the way there. But again on the negative side, Johannis was so distracted that at one point we were going the wrong way in a one way street (even Greg picked up it was one-way without being able to read the massive 'Einbahnstrasse' signs).

Then we went to this party (high school party. Gigidy). We got drunk. We lost at Fussball. I got a free green Santa robe that I will use as a dressing gown next year, even though it doesn't do up at the front. It also has a hood, so when you put that up you look like the irish KKK (mean?).

It's not Greg's fault we are in Berlin again. The 'timetables' are to blame apparently.

The Soap, as it is called, is a series of events my exchange student was involved in in Greece on a class trip this year. Firstly, he scores his ballroom dancing partner. Then he decides he wants his ex back so scores her. Ballroom dancing partner kicks him in the balls. So he goes and scores one of his ex's best friends on the beach. And then almost got with another girl. And somehow he is back together with his ex. Mean. High five!

Also, I think Greg is missing Lucy. I woke up this morning and he was in my bed. Unfortunately both of us blacked out before going to bed so we don't know how this happened. My host mother gave us a very funny look when she came to wake us up.