I was to fly to Spain on the 22nd of April, departing from Buillund. This all went smoothly enough, but when I arrived 30 min early and had all my luggage, I was amazed. Normally, an early flight is no real cause for amazement, but after hearing the numerous horror stories floating around the aether related to Ryanair, I was suitably impressed. Despite the flight being early, it was still 2230. Not wanting to wait aruond for a bus, I hailed a cab and 12 Euro later I was in Valencia. I met Gemma, my host, dumped my bags at her [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Toledo, we arrived in Atocha (Madrid train station) and decided to leave our large backpacks in lockers and grab what we needed for the night and set out for a hotel. This can sometimes be an easy goal and other times, not as easy. You wind up stopping at a hotel, asking the price, seeing if breakfast is included and then ask to view the room to see if it’s worth the money all while trying to speak and understand spanish. We eventually found a very cute loft apt that was in a great area that was cheaper than [View Full Entry]

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Dear Bo & Dud, What a surprise the Costa Blanca has been to us - a few days in Benidorm has turned into a couple of weeks, which in turn, is probably going to become a month! Our situation is glorious - we are almost in a basin, surrounded by the glorious Serra de Aitana. The camp site is much bigger than our usual choice, the facilities are superb and the parcela is hedge marked, huge and fully serviced. There are two pools (cool water) and I can usually find some time during the day when I can swim alone - [View Full Entry]

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So, I wrote this blog entry already, but thanks to my wonderful laptop, I lost it! I can't guarantee that this entry will be as good as the other one I wrote, but I'll try... In recent news, today was the BIG day. It was the day that my 10+ page paper was due. I e-mailed it to my advisor at SNC yesterday. Oh, and it ended up being 15 pages! Go me! This weekend Kaley and I went to Alicante, which is on the Meditteranean coast. It was a fun trip! It took us about 3.5 hours to get there [View Full Entry]

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The Javea netball tournament has become an annual event, so April found me there again, playing netball under the Spanish sun. This time spent some time checking out Valencia as well. Had a great time, we came third, I did NOT lose my passport, there is not much else to say - but here are some pictures. [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody! So I am super behind in my travel blogs, so I am going to skip the rest of my spring break blogs for now (dont worry I will come back and do them when I have time!), and go on to my trips that I have had since then. That way, I can try to stay up to date and then when I have time I will fill in a blog or two about my spring break. So after getting back from spring break, I was exhausted, so I had a nice week at home. Lauren’s friends from home [View Full Entry]

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The EU is looked to world wide as a leader on a variety of fronts; progressive social policies, environmental laws, cutting edge technology, and economic efficiency. However the reality of living in Europe can be quite different. While Spain is certainly notorious for carefree attitudes, and refusals to abandon old ways in favour of tradition, one wonders how this country can exist and thrive within the European community. Sometimes the examples are charming; an entire soccer stadium of 50,000 smoking and eating jamon bocadillos, a donkey pulling a cart through the orange groves of La Huerta [View Full Entry]

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Friday, 14th March - Mr T's birthday! First thing he said today - "Cannot wait to open my cards!". Took wind from his sails when I handed him a bundle to open, as whilst home people had rushed out buying said cards for me to bring back. Had a lovely breakfast sitting in sun and I pegged his birthday cards on the washing line! Left site at 12 without a plan and Andy singing to "Destination unknown" - his favourite at moment. Headed north desperately trying to find a beach road. Unfortunately this was difficult as most of this undeveloped coast [View Full Entry]

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This year I have two weeks for Spring Break. My vacation started after class on Thursday the 13th and I don't start classes again until the 31st. So far I've been pretty active. As I said in my last entry, my friend Iñaki came from Madrid for two days so I finally got to check a few places off the my list of things to do here in Barcelona. I have a few big things left to do, and I will wait until Aneliess comes in June to do them. I would also like to see the Diagonal Mar park, [View Full Entry]

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barely survived Fallas here in Valencia. now I need a holiday. We're going to Cordoba and afterwards to the beach in Tarifa for a few days of rest. I put some photo's here, finally, of what I've been doin (mas o menos) here in spain. Pics of Valencia and my friends there, fiestas in Salamnca, the roadtrip to the north with the box-gang, dinner parties, botellones, breakfasts and what not :) Of course loads of studying but we dont make pictures of that do we :) [View Full Entry]

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