Rozell letters

nice little park and wandered around the city. Had some ice-cream at a place called festival d'Glace (glace is ice-cream in French - the continental kind mostly) that was really amazing, never saw such interesting deserts in my life - puts Farrell's to shame disregarding the [liqueur?] in most of them. Anyway, went to meet a friend from Cliveden in Monte Carlos and of the six (his brother and 2 people they'd met) only the other three could go into the casino so Craig and Jules and [I?] wandered around [Tours?] and talked. That town is incredible like main street at Disneyland in real life. We felt like we were in a fairy tale land or something, but it was much fun, we only wished we could have seen the inside of the casino. Ah well missed our train so we didn't get to bed until 2:00am and had to get up early again, so much for the great beds.

DAY 12: Up at 7:30 to miss the rushat the post office to call home, but then you all probably know all about that by now. If not ask mom or dad. Back to the hotel for breakfast and off to run errands

Hi Gang:

Thought I'd better get down to this or it would never get done, the number of days I have to do now is almost insurmountable, but I'll see what I can do. Actually there isn't all that much to tell, this is the more leisurely, less touristy part of the trip, but I'll try and keep you entertained nonetheless.

DAY 5: (I believe this is where I stopped before). This is the day Julie's vacation actually began. Had to be out of the Tours campus by 7:30 am and we sat in a park until Jules finished copying her philosophy paper. Wandered around Tours taking pictures and saw the chateaux at Blois really an impressive place, and they show more of it than in most other places. Spent 3.5 hours in a creperie having dinner, avoiding rain, and passing the time until our midnight train to Madrid.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY M+D! -- Didn't forget, just didn't get the card off DAY 6: Still on the train until 4:30-5:00 pm (these long train rides can really get to you -- almost [have?] to spend the extra money to get a couchette for the night (three high bunks) so you can get a little sleep and pass the time a little more quickly. Can't count on stretching out otherwise anymore all the Americans plus all the Europeans travelling means all teh trains are quite crowded unless you go in off hours which are really a pain. Madrid metro was a pain -- had to transfer 4 times to get to our destination (listen to the metro expert here). The Madrid hostel could only take us one night, but we met an Australian lawyer who told us about a place about an hour out of Madrid called El Escorial with a beautiful hostel and friendly people so we decided to stay there the next day. This same woman let us choose from her paperback library she was trying to get rid of, so we now each have some reading material

for long trin rides (just finished Sister Carrie by Theodore Drieser - depressing but good and also got one called The Emperor of Ice Cream by Brian Moore - that's next, haven't started it yet - to go with the Gulliver's Travels I already had. It'll keep me busy between letters for a while at least). Also had the first of a series of Spanish COLD showers, can't get all wet at once because you'd freeze, but you get good at them after awhile.

DAY 7: (it's now Wed. the 18th if you've lost track). We basically wandered all over Madrid looking at the town itself and the people (not to mention the tourists). Had some ice-cream at a place called the California Cafe in downtown Madrid if you can believe it - was actually really good although continental ice-cream is very differetn from that in the U.S. or the [lard?] cream in England. Also hit the Prado for awhile, mostly Velasquez and some Dutch on this trip, then back out to the Hostel with many young Spanish kids - made me think back to Pilgrim Pins it was just likebeing at summer camp, especially since we were the only other people there not with that group. Had a good Spanish omlette (not like [Renney's] - these are all eggs and potatoes) and small fish and tomato turnover type things, real Spanish food, quite a change from our regular diet of bread, cheese, salami, and fruit and a goot hot meal besides.

DAY 8: Much the same as yesterday, mostly running errands around Madrid and seeing the scenery. Back to the Prado for a while (it's the only sight per se in Madrid) and saw a lot of Goya of all types this time. Madrid is an interesting city-people are all reall friendly, and there are parks everywhere to hel escape the heat (84+ and really dry - felt hotter) we also made a taste test of some of the 13 zillion types of pre-packaged ice-cream sold about every other step on the streets - not bad at all, more of our style of ice cream in these, but not the lard cream of England - quite refreshing. Dad I told you you ought to test market Spain!

DAY 13: Had to get earliest yet to make the boat to Corsica - up at 5:30 out by 6:00, 6:30 mini bus to the port for a 7:30 boat. Well, there isn't all that much to do on Corsica so we should at least be able to catch up on our sleep a little. Too bad this isn't covered by the youthrail - 83 francs ($21) one way 4th class (I didn't even know that existed, oh well, learn something new everyday I guess ...) Arrived in at 2:45 pm found a hotel - expensive! 60 francs a night (30 a piece or $7.25 without breakfast). I know it sounds cheap to you this is a tight budget operation, we were going to eat out, but bagged that idea until later and did some shopping for our usual fare, mailer letters etc, even got reservations for tomorrow night for a change. Then down to the beach to read and picnic (bread, cheese, salami, apples, water and cookies - our usual fare with the type of everything (especially cookies and apples usually in flux) until it got cold about 8:30, came home and relaxed with hopes of a good nights sleep before moving on to Calvi in the morning.

That was todays action so you are now temporarily up to date. Next is our rough itinerary for those who have not as yet seen/heard it:

June 24-27 Corsica 28- 29 Rome 30 - 1 Florence

July 2 Sienna, Venice 3-6 Austria (Vienna+Salzburg) 7-8 Munich 9 Lausanne, Switzerland 10 Chamonix 11-12 Paris 13 Normandy+Britanny+a night train/boat/train to London+Cliveden 14-15 Cliveden/London 16-19 Ireland 20-? Maybe Northern Eng or just back to London. With [he?] for sight seeing and tying up loose ends 27-30 to Washington sometime in there probably

July 31-Aug 4 or 5 Washington+New York 6-7 (?) Columbus 8-10 Chicago 11 travel 12-14 Denver

Part from return Ireland is tentative part in US past Washington + New York very tentative, prices are turning out much more than dreamed of so drastic attractions are needy to be made and I'm still pretty clueless about the whole ting. At least this gives you a vague idea though so you know what's up. Time to end this post it, I'll send part three along when it has happened + been duly recorded. Take care until then

Vickie