Logistics Shmogistics

Hey all.

Today has been a day of complications. Heidi and I both woke up sick, Heidi with a sore throat and me with crazy intestinal crap. We also have realized the necessity of booking our hostels far in advance, as France in the summer time gets booked up QUICKLY. Additionally, many of the towns we're interested in (smaller, more provincial ones) are difficult to get to-- an impossible train schedule prevented us from going to Cinque Terre as planned, and we're now intending to go there after our trip into Switzerland.

Essentially, we spent a lot of time trying to plan the rest of our trip today...

We had a lovely afternoon-- met some sweet Irish girls from Cork and went with them to the beach. Saw plenty of man thongs and naked boobies. Going with the same girls to an Irish pub tonight to watch rugby. Gooooo.... rugby team!!

On the way back from the beach-- more logistic hell-- I discovered through 4 out of 4 ATM withdrawal attempts that my bank is not approving my withdrawals. As Heidi and I went out of our way to notify our bank of our Europe trip beforehand, this was extreeeeemely frustrating. Pray and cross your fingers that my email to their customer service dept. gets answered QUICKLY!

Not sure of what our internet access will be after this point, so may not be able to blog as long or as often. Please please please send us emails though--- they are the medicine we're surviving on through these rough points!!