a tonn of places

Hello!

oh wow, so much has happened since our last post!

Canyoning was fantastic, perhaps the best thing that we have done so far. It was a cold, rainy day and unlike the other group that was supposed to go with us, we did not chicken out. We met up with our very tough looking tour guide, Gottfried, who briefed us on how to walk on rocks and jump off of cliffs (!). We donned cold weather wet suits and headed out on our trek.

Mom dont read this if you think you will get worried but rest assured, i made it okay!

We hiked over rocks and came to our first, easy jump. I may have let out a little squeal (cut me a break!) but the landing was quite fun. There was an initial shock of extremely cold water but the wetsuits did their job and we stayed (almost) warm the whole time. We move on to some higher, more difficult jumps and all did pretty well with them. Gottfried took pictures along the way with an underwater camera and we got electronic copies of them.

When I started, I was really tentative with my stepping (and hence, fell behind the group) but I learned to trust my body and walked over rocks and jumped with much more confidence. It makes you think that humans were made to do this kind of walking, not over paved streets or up man made steps.

Of course, the day ended with some epic portions of schnitzel, very fried traditional Austrian meet (oh how far I have come since I was a vegetarian).

Anyhow, a lot more has happened since then (Munich, Innsbruck, Venice, etc) and we are in Cinque Terre now. We will do a more thorough update once we have travel journals handy and are not paying a ridiculous amount for Internet (80 euro cents for 10 minutes!).

Ciao!
Julie