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		<title>Athena / I Had No Idea How Much I&#8217;d Need Her</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve wanted a tattoo since I was in high school. I came up with new ideas every month, desperately searching for the perfect image to get emblazoned on my skin. I never got anything, though, because despite my longing to decorate my body with ink, I knew that I hadn&#8217;t come across anything that I thought would mean as much to me in my later life as it did in my youth. When I went to Greece in June/July, I was fulfilling another long-surviving desire. I&#8217;d wanted to go to Greece for at least the past year, but even before then, Greece and the ancient history and mythology surrounding it had captivated me for years. In my high school freshman English class, we were given a research paper. It was called the &#8220;Resident Expert&#8221; project because the point was to do so much research on one thing that we&#8217;d be the &#8220;Resident Expert.&#8221; (It was a smart way to make us feel high and mighty for learning how to do a research paper. English teachers, take note!) I chose Greek Mythology, specifically Aphrodite, largely out of my ugly nerdy ducking longing to be a swan syndrome. During my trip to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Setback of Sorts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back from Europe for just over a month now. It took awhile, but I got settled back into New York City life, and shed the constant daydreams of rocky beaches, foreign men, motorbikes and ancient civilizations. That is, until now. Last night, I was walking to the Union Turnpike subway station, and I smelled something in the air that reminded me of Europe. It wasn&#8217;t a food smell, but a street smell. It reminded me of the streets of Rome. I&#8217;m sure I sound crazy, because I thought I was, too. But I swear, if you were there, you&#8217;d have thought the same thing. Bernard Fanning: &#8220;Wish You Well&#8221; (download) When you go on a coach-based tour with Contiki, you get a &#8220;day song.&#8221; Basically, it&#8217;s played on the bus first thing every morning and acts like a theme song for your group. Cute, I know. This song is pretty cheesy &#8212; it reminds me of the kind of thing that everyone at Hofstra would&#8217;ve loved &#8212; but, it&#8217;s admittedly incredibly catchy. By the end of the tour we all knew the words, and everytime we got drunk, we&#8217;d scream out for our tour manager to play it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe By The Numbers &amp; Contiki Reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days spent travelling/in Europe: 28 Nations visited: 7 (Italy, Vatican City, France, Monaco, Spain, Greece, Turkey) Greek Islands visited: 5 (Crete, Rhodes, Patmos, Mykonos, Santorini) Digital pictures taken: 1,236 Rolls of film taken: 10.5 People on the Med Highlights Reverse tour: 34 (not inc. me) People on the Golden Fleece tour: 21 (not inc. me) Bars &#38; Dance Clubs visited: 18 Drinks consumed on-board the Perla (6/30 &#8211; 7/06): 42 (inc. non-alocholic) Motorbike burns: 1 European men kissed: 0 European men who tried to get me to kiss them: 3 Men in elephant g-strings: 1 Bullfights: 2 Turkish Baths: 1 Donkey Rides: 1 Times my suitcase got lost: 1 Times someone&#8217;s wallet was stolen: 3 Times I wanted to stay in Europe longer: still counting&#8230; When I was planning this trip, a lot of people insisted to me that I should backpack instead of go on a tour. Normally, my rambling, loves to be in control, independant self would have taken that advice. However, the lack of time to plan combined with the desire to have (almost) everything planned before I got to Europe, added with the good reviews my friends gave Contiki made it seem like the best way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few More Notes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry, friends and readers, this is going to return to its previous MP3 blog status. But part of the reason that I am extending the Europe blogging a bit longer is because being gone for a month sort of skews what you know about music that&#8217;s out right now. So while I finish up my reconnaissance, you&#8217;ll probably get one or two more posts about Europe. I didn&#8217;t get much chance to write during my trip to Greece, mostly because travelling by boat gives you much more ways and opportunities to fill free time than travelling by bus. I did write one long entry, from which I&#8217;ll copy a few things down, and then probably add some things. &#8220;Greece has been unreal, more like a dream than reality. It seems like no matter how much it sinks in, no matter how much I relish each moment, it&#8217;s gone sooner than I want. I want to be in Greece &#38; Turkey longer, I want to be on this ship longer. But these days are numbered.&#8221; This trip was my first time on a cruise ship. I never really saw myself as someone who would be into cruising, but I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>866 artifacts from Europe.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took 1,236 (digital) pictures while I was in Europe, and about 8-10 rolls of film (but those aren&#8217;t developed and/or scanned yet). I didn&#8217;t want to make anyone sit through a ton of duplicates or bad shots, so here are the best of them. The visual documentation of (almost) one month in Europe]]></description>
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		<title>Something Different.</title>
		<link>http://www.t-sides.com/2006/07/07/something-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it really almost over?  Am I really leaving tomorrow? We blazed a hot trail through the islands. Each stop gave us just a few hours to get a feel for each island, thus the internet was not even close to being a priority. I&#8217;ve written things down in my journal to capture the dreamy haze of the absolute happiness that has been this past week, and once I return to the east coast (tomorrow), I&#8217;ll type up a few things out of that, as well as link to pictures, and, of course, type up a retrospective. I&#8217;m really not ready to leave. Not only am I not wanting to leave Greece, I&#8217;m not ready to leave behind the people on this tour. It&#8217;s been a different dynamic than the last tour, but special in its own way. I&#8217;ve only had a week with these new friends, and even still, it truly hurts to be leaving some of them. I just realized that I&#8217;ve been saying that I&#8217;m excited not to be living out of a suitcase, but that&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;ll be doing for the next couple of months. The difference is that it will be on the East [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greece At Last!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I probably mentioned to many of you who I talked to before my trip, a huge part of this trip was my desire to go to Greece. After seeing pictures of Greece from my friends Clara &#38; Kyle&#8217;s trip last year, I knew I had to go. I&#8217;ve only been in Athens for a few hours, but I&#8217;ve already fallen in love. It&#8217;s a very English-friendly city, but it still has its own language and culture. The food is absolutely delicious (the dinner I had tonight was one of the best I&#8217;ve had in Europe). The buildings are light-colored with lots of windows and balconies. If I wasn&#8217;t exhausted from travelling and a late night last night, I&#8217;d probably still be out walking around. I can&#8217;t wait for tomorrow. I enjoyed Madrid more than I expected I would. It seems to be the most main-stream, americanized city I&#8217;ve seen so far, which surprises me. I mostly spent my time there shopping, but I did get to the Prado (my favorites were the late Goya paintings from when he went deaf &#8212; creepy but fascinating stuff, and the Tintorettos). We also went to a bullfight last night. Needless to say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spain!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few days have truly blown by, especially our time in France. We only had one full day in Nice (and it was Sunday, so most things were closed), before it was off to Avignon. Overall, we pretty much breezed through France, but not before stopping in Aix-En-Provence, hometown of Cezanne, and Carcassonne, which those of you who travelled with me to France before will remember. As before, Barcelona got to the heart of me, as did the Sagrada Familia. I had spent the days leading up to our arrival in Barcelona geeking out about my love for the Sagrada Familia and Gaudi&#8217;s architecture, so it was fitting that the Sagrada Familia was our first stop in Barcelona. I spent several hours of my free day inside and climbing to the top. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever connected to architecture in such a powerful way, especially not to a church. As with everywhere, our time there was not nearly enough, but when I first visited Barcelona five years ago, I vowed that I would return to see the Sagrada Familia completed, and being a woman of my word, I still plan to do so. See you in 2020-something, Barcelona! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice?  That&#8217;s Nice.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonjour from Nice! We arrived in France yesterday night, and though I was sad to leave Italy, there&#8217;s a bit of familiarity to France for me. I realized just a few days ago that being in Italy was my first time alone in a country where I don&#8217;t speak the language, and I managed just fine. I&#8217;ve found that just being in France has triggered the four years of French I took, and a lot of it is coming back to me. Before arriving in France, we sailed along the coast of Italy to see the Cinque Terras. The Cinque Terras are five cities nestled in mountains along the sea. They&#8217;re all port towns, of course, and the buildings are all bright colors. Apparently the buildings were painted with paint left over from painting their ships. I absolutely adored the towns, as well as Porte Venere, the small port city right before the Cinque Terras. Florence was beautiful, of course, and like I&#8217;ve said about everywhere I&#8217;ve been so far, I could&#8217;ve stayed there much longer. I managed to get a chance to go into the Uffizi after about an hour&#8217;s wait, and spent around the same amount of time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More from Florence!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor K. Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few lines from my journal before I head off on a walking tour of Florence&#8230; &#8220;Rome is beautiful. The pastel-colored buildings are so much more inviting than America&#8217;s monotone monstrosities. Piazza Navona reminds me a lot of Montmartre, with the painters and cafés. Trevi Fountain also stunning &#8212; too bad we&#8217;re not allowed to jump in.  Enjoying myself despite the rocky start of lost luggage and a 90 euro cab ride.&#8221; &#8220;Florence is stunning. Haven&#8217;t seen much of it yet, but I&#8217;m excited to conquer it today. Still falling in love with Italy &#8212; it&#8217;s so much better than I could&#8217;ve ever imagined.&#8221; Haven&#8217;t had Gelato yet, so that&#8217;s a definite goal for today. We had a leather demonstration this morning, so I&#8217;ll be able to tell all of you good ways to spot fake leather. Last night we went to a pub, and I sang karaoke to AC/DC&#8217;s &#8220;You Shook Me All Night Long.&#8221;  How many times can you do karaoke in Italy, you know? Bought lots of postcards, should have some time to write them tomorrow night. As for tonight, we head to a disco called Space.  Should be interesting&#8230;]]></description>
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