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This is my final entry for this online journal and details briefly the last month that I was in Europe. An hour after Brady left the Dublin Airport for Chicago; I took a flight from Dublin to Naples, Italy. For a number of reasons, including lack of sleep, changing of time zones, this was the most confusing flight I had taken because after dozing off I awoke and looked at my watch and thought that we should have landed 10 minutes ago, but we didn’t land for another hour. For all my travels, I had everything planned out to a t, but that all ended when Brady went home because I just ran out of time to plan this last month, so a lot of it was by the seat of my pants, which was quite ... read more

3 Countries, 2 Continents, 1 Week This week started with me realizing that my time in Alicante had just ended. However, it was exciting start also because after a four hour train ride and an hour on the metro, I got to meet Brady at the airport. It has been months since I had seen any family, so it was exciting to see Brady. After dropping off our bags, we went to a Spanish restaurant for lunch before meeting up with two of my friends to go to a Bull Fight. This was a complete surprise for Brady because I didn’t tell him that I had found tickets after he said that he would like to expreince this aspect of Spanish culture. After going to the fight, Brady then had the same view of bull fighting ... read more

As I begin to write this, I really have no idea as to how to summarize my second half of my Spring Break travels that took me to seven countries and involved crossing Europe from South to North and then East to West. However, I will try to hit the high points, but I could never put into writing everything that I learned and experienced. I’ll start this blog on Thursday April 16. The rest of the people that I did the Camino de Santiago took the 13 hour bus ride back to Alicante at 4pm, but my friend Johan and I were taking the overnight train to Madrid, so we had some time to waste in Santiago de Compostela. We spent this time walking around the city, using the internet for the first time in ... read more

Viernes 3 de april- We left Alicante at 7:00 am in order to beat traffic. After a 5 hour ride in the bus to Granada, we were dropped off at the Alhambra, a Muslim palace complex that was built over 800 years ago. I say complex because it was added to over the years before being abandoned and ransacked for 200 years until Washington Erving bought it in the 1800’s. Even with many of the pieces of the beautiful tile gone and all the vibrant colors faded or gone, but it was still impressive. After the Alhambra, we checked into our hotel, which was quite beautiful. Seeing that it was about 3pm, we were hungry and searched for a restaurant. We were supposed to be back at the hotel at 5pm for a walking tour of ... read more

Viernes 20 marzo 2009- We left the Alicante airport at about 11:30pm and arrive in Madrid about an hour later. Since our flight was at 7am, we found a quiet corner and tried to get some sleep. If you haven’t spent a night in an airport, consider yourself lucky, I’ll leave it at that. Because of time difference, we arrived in Lisboa, Portugal at 7:00am and made it to our hostel by way of city bus and great step by step directions to our hostel by 8am. We were starving and exhausted, but we couldn’t check in until 11, however, they allowed us to leave our bags in a room and then told us we could eat breakfast even though we hadn’t slept/paid for the night before. The hostel that we stayed at was called Oasis ... read more