Hoş geldiniz! Welcome! After a drought of blog entries, and quite frankly a lack of inspiration...er laziness... I'm back on the ball. For those of you who have, for whatever reason, missed out on my emails, last 5 months of planning, Facebook updates, and anything else I do to publish my life...I bring to you my latest move...to Istanbul! I traveled to Turkey back in March with Leslie, a friend who I worked with in Barcelona, for 10 days during which the country stole my heart from Spain. Almost right after returning back to Barcelona I set out searches for English [View Full Entry]

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So how does one start walking for 600km? One step in front of the other. We woke to the rustling of plastic bags and muffled whispers between pilgrims at 5:20. I willingly hopped out of bed after a night plagued by dreams of failure of the camino. Seriously, I dreamt that I was getting off of my bunkbed and knocked them over creating a horrific domino effect of the rest of the bunkbeds in the albergue. We filled our waterbottles in the early morning darkness and set out for our first 30km (18.5 miles or so) hike. Feeling a little nervous [View Full Entry]

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The morning of the 4th of July Sophie and I woke up in Barcelona forgetting the fireworks and hotdogs celebration back at home, hopped on the Metro to Estacio Sants to get on the early morning train headed towards Burgos. We dressed ready for hiking but wouldn’t do much more than sitting for the next 8 hours on the train. We found ourselves surrounded by 2 dozen adolescents on their way to a camping trip also in Burgos. After spending 5 hours amongst the childrens squeals, shrieks, and cries for attention from one another, Soph and I decided it was enough, [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from in-transit Danielle. I’ve just embarked on my first long-distance train trip in Spain. I’m on my way to Barcelona from Bilbao on a 9-hour journey to spend my Easter vacation. I usually take the plane for convenience purposes as it only takes an hour and costs a mere 30 euro more, but I thought that this time it might be nice to see some of the country side between the Basque country and Catalonia. Anywho, I’ve taken short distance train trips before, no more than 2 hours. The trains that are usually provided for such distances somewhat resemble [View Full Entry]

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Hi All! So, I’m back to the travel blog after a mere two month break. Not too bad, eh? So it’s the begininning of March and I’m starting to realize just how little time I have left in the Language Auxiliar program here in Cantabria. My last day is on May 31st, which gives me less than three months. I can’t believe how quickly time has gone by. But this realization has led me to yet another. I need to start saving money! My brother, Sean, is coming at the end of May and we have deicded that for the first [View Full Entry]

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So here it is. A quick summary of what the heck I’ve been doing for the last few months. Right now things are going really well at the elementary school that I’m working at. My mother sent me a book of various nursey rhymes in English paired with different interesting activities for kids. They’re all geared at native speakers but I changed them a little bit for my audience. For the last two weeks we worked on “Hickory, Dickory, Dock”. I know you’re thinking, “What the hell are you teaching them? Definitely not practical English. No one says Hickory, [View Full Entry]

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I know, I know. It’s been almost 4 months since I’ve written anything in this travel blog. But honestly, in order to have any material to wrtie in a travel blog, I really should be doing some travelling. It’s gonna seem crazy, but right now I’ve been doing less travelling than I do when I’m living in the US. I’ve been unbelievably busy working at the school where I work. In addition, I have a job at a language academy, private classes, as well as personal Spanish classes for myself. All in all, I’m probably working somewhere around 40 hours a [View Full Entry]

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It’s been a few weeks of craziness. But now as it is all slowing down a little bit I figured that I would write another blog for you all. I left Barcelona almost 2 weeks ago. After spending a lovely last night and watching the sun set on Barcelona and the lights begin to illuminate the city, I realized that I have to go and that someday I’ll live in Barcelona. Until then, I get the privilege of living in Cantabria, a province in Northern Spain. After leaving Barcelona, I spent 2 days and nights in Madrid for a meeting [View Full Entry]

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Where to start? At the beginning. I left San Diego a little over a two weeks ago to begin yet again another adventure in Spain. Plagued by nerves and disbelief that I was going abroad for a long time I got very little sleep except for a cat nap that I took in the Frankfurt airport during my 5 hour layover underneath a speaker announcing departure gates in German. Ein, zwei, drei. After a grueling 22 hour trip from San Diego I was greeted in the Barcelona airport by 3 smiling Catalans holding a big California flag. You can’t imagine how [View Full Entry]

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