wishesandstars

Dear friends and family - I have decided to move to Dublin, Ireland. You are welcome to visit any time of the year. Love, Theresa P.S. I think I have an unhealthy obsession with Ireland at this point. I write to you from the airport since I am so early that I am not even able to check in just yet. I guess I have to leave in a few hours for London...which makes me sad haha. I'm sure I will fall in love with London just the same. But we'll see about that! A little about my weekend in Dublin... Arrived before lunch Saturday morning and took a bus to catch the DART train system to Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Done Leary) to find my hostel. After having lugged my luggage up the stairs and being ... read more

Hope everyone had lots of trick or treaters and watched tons of scary movies. As for me, I didn´t eat a single piece of candy nor did I go to a haunted house. The young crowd here celebrates Halloween to a certain extent. They usually just go out to a club or bar like every other night until all hours of the morning dressed up as something scary (dead nurse, vampire, zombie, etc...). They don´t nearly dress as creative, funny, cute as the college kids at home haha. April and I were 80´s rockstars...complete with brightly colored leggings, side pony tails, bright makeup, rockstar shirts, and crazy necklaces. Lucky for me, my friend SHELLEY came to visit for a couple days, and though she had no costume, she still came out to El Kapital - a ... read more

So we went to Toledo, Spain which is right outside of Madrid by an hour bus ride. Toledo is most famous for it´s cathedral...therefore, I have a lot of pictures of it on here. Construction began in 1226 and lasted 250 years... can you believe that? We visited Santo Tome, a 14th century church where St. Augustine and St. Stephen were said to have visited for the burial of a local count. El Greco painted a replica of the famous burial which includes both saints, angels, and the keys to heaven. It´s a fabulous work of art, and sorry because pictures are not allowed of anything there. We had a nice lunch at a pizza place of sorts but of course it was ¨Spanish¨pizza only. I had pizza Iberica - cheese, sauce, bacon, and pepperoni. I ... read more

So Spain is pretty much outrageous. We have made amazing friends at our hostel...Peter from New Zealand, Clint from London, Chris from Alaska, Agata from Toronto and so forth. Others we met but aren´t really friends with (haha) were from Portugal, France, Argentina, Korea, and Germany. Clint just moved here for the year to teach at a school outside Madrid and he said he could probably get me a tutoring job (under the table $ of course haha) with one of the youngin´s there. I think it would be fun! On another note, we had some serious conversations with both Peter from New Zealand and Clint from London about the rest of the world´s opinion about Americans. It´s gotten me a little upset to say the least to hear this news first hand. Americans are ignorant, ... read more

Hi everyone....i miss you so much.... and i haven´t figured out how to use the exclamation mark on this spanish keyboard so i apologize if there is any lack of enthusiasm here haha. our experience so far has been great. we got to our hostel which is simply fabulous....no wonder it was voted number 1 two years ago and was ranked 7th last year. it´s so cute... go to this page to see pix and info about it http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/MuchoMadrid-Madrid-7616 we went to el corte ingles to check out the shopping scene. it´s unbelievable... our hostel is right in what i´d like to think of the times square or broadway in nyc. we´re right next to the theater where mamma mia is playing and los productores aka the producers is a half block down...we have a balcony ... read more

Well, things are pretty much ready to go. I've bought everything I need for my trip and we booked our hostel stay for the first five nights in downtown Madrid! We'll be staying on Gran Via...which seems to be in a great part of the city! It's close to downtown and should be pretty sweet from what I've read about it. Hope the rest of you are ready for this (i'm really not yet haha)... I promise it will be a wild ride (complete with pictures)!! :) ... read more

Hello friends! I know it's a little early to start this travelblog, as I do not leave until September 20 for Spain, but I wanted to get everyone's e-mail addresses together while this site was fresh on my mind. I plan to update this blog as often as possible while in Spain and other countries of course, hopefully complete with pictures of the places I went! Feel free to leave comments on here and message me anytime. If you'd like to be taken off this list, let me know. I look forward to writing in here! :D Lots of love, Theresa... read more