Fuck It, Im going to Europe!!

Hey all,

So I will try to update this somewhat regularly with what all is going on. Quick overview of what has happened already.... I spent a few days in Paris Which was really amazing, I would love to go back. And I may try to buy my ticket back home out of Paris so I have an excuse to see it again.


Well Im getting kicked out so more later

Amy

End of the trip

Only a couple of more days and then my Europe adventure will be officially over. This past week has sort of seemed more like a vacation since we have been in one place the whole time. Madrid has been fun, but I deffinitley would have to say Barcelona was my favorite European city.

This past week has just been relaxing and going out dancing. We are going to this night club called el capital tonight it is supposed to be like 7 floors of dancing. Such fun! Well this will probably be my last post while in Europe, I never really put many stories or pictures on here so if you want to hear more about our trip you will just have to ask me when I get back. :)

Greece and Spain

So I haven't updated in a bit but we've just been traveling all over I hadn´t got much of a chance. After rome we went to Athens for a night and then to Mykonos, one of the greek islands, for a weekend. It was really nice we would go out at night and spend the days at the pool or on the beach.

After Mykonos we went to Barcelona.... which I absolutely loved!!! It was a pretty city had a fair amount of things to see along with a beach and great night life. I had a great time there and so far has been my favorite city I've visited. After a few days in Barcelona we went up to Pamplona for the running of the bulls. That was just insane, we got in Pamplona around 10 or 11 at night (just in time to see fireworks) then found somewhere to store our luggage for the night since we didn't have anywhere to stay and everything was full. We then spent the night in the crazy streets of papmlona with thousands of other people drinking dancing and jsut being insane. Like it was a popular thing to throw your glass bottles all over the streets to break. That was pretty annoying and you couldn't really walk anywhere without getting beer or wine sprayed on you. I had fun though don't get me wrong.... it was just complete insanity. The bulls ran at 8am that morning and we actually got an amazing spot to watch. I didn't end up running, I decided that if i did i wouldn't want to be anywhere near the bulls so then i would just be running in a giant group of people and not see anything. We takled about watching the first night then running with them the next morning. (running of the bulls is a week long thing, every day at 8am). However, we ended up leaving that next morning as we all were dead tired and just had had enough of a solid night of partying and staying up.

Now we are in Madrid, we got in last night and are here for a week until we fly back home. So far Madrid has been pretty relaxing, it seems like it will be a good city to spend the last week in.

End of Rome

Hey all!

So we left rome last night and took a night train down to Sicily. So far Sicily is really really hot. But our hostel here is really nice so that was pretty good.

While I was in Rome I ended up meeting up with my friend Will from U of I. We all ended up just getting dinner and then hanging out on the Spanish steps. I think those might have been my favorite thing in Rome. They weren't the most breath taking or interesting, however they were the most fun area to go and visit. Another thing which I really liked was the Trevi Fountain. I'd put up pictures, but I don't have my wire to connect my camera with me now... sorry.

The last night in Rome we went on this bar crawl sorta thing. It was with a bunch of other college aged tourists, but it was kinda nice since none of us speak Italian well. We went to this one club at the end of the night which was a great time. Lots of dancing and I made friends with a couple of Roman guys, so I still got to hang out with the locals. And peggy and Jane met some Ukranian guys which was pretty funny.

That next morning we were supposed to check out of our hostel by 10am and since we all got home a wee bit tipsy at 4 or 5 am we forgot to set alarms and were rushed out of the hostel without time to really get ready at all. We then just spent our last day in Rome hanging out in this park... catching up on some sleep and then just relaxing a bit. We then took a 12 hour night train down to Sicily. However, the last stretch of it something was wrong.... we don't know what, as we couldn't understand what people were saying.... and ended up getting delayed for about 2 hours on the hot hot train. We are in Sicily for 2 nights now and then we head to Athens. Tomorrow is the half way mark of our trip, which is kinda exciting. We have been typically doing so much during the days and evenings it's hard to believe it has only been 3 weeks. I feel like i've been here for months already. Great times though.

If you read this leave me a comment about what you have been up to lately as I haven't been keeping in touch with everyone!

Roma

We have been in Rome for the last couple of days. I feel like there is so much to see here, everywhere you turn is some fancy old building or church. Although Rome has some great things to see like the Collosium and Vatican city I don't really like it all that much. It's dirty and smells like a toilet everywhere. We are leaving for Sicily tomorrow and then to Greece. Should be fun!

pictures

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italy

Hey all, so we are in cinque terre now. It has been a very relaxing couple of days. The hiking here is beautiful, and there are beaches.... well sorta, they are kinda rocky so its, more so people laying on rocks instead of sand but it's very pretty and a nice little break from museums and monuments. I am uploading pictures now from the trip so far, but they are taking really long to upload so I am only putting up a few. Peggy put up pictures on her facebook though, so if you want to see them her name is Peggy Spinato she is one of my friends on facebook. Tomorrow we leave for Rome, which should be lots of fun and then down to Sicily for a couple of days. Fun times, oh and I randomly ran into my friend Will from U of I here. We saw each other on this little ferry boat at these beach towns.... talk about random meetings.

I'll add some pictures now.