Here this is the last entry about fall break! Early on Thursday morning we got up and headed to the airport. The airport was about an hour outside of Paris so we had a lot of traveling to do. In the end we had to take the metro, airport shuttle, airplane, and a bus to galway. We left at 6am from the hostel and arrived in Galway at about 3:30pm. Long day! The plane ride was only about 1.5 hours. The airport was an experience. I flew on Ryanair which is a very c...

Hello again! So I am going to pick up where I left off with the food festival blog. The morning after the closing ceremonies (Monday) I took a train to Paris (about 4.5 hours). I was originally going to take the train from Torino (where the festival was) but I found out Bardonecchia (where the hotel was) was about an hour closer to paris so I just hopped on there! The train was pretty nice and the ride went well. For the rest of the week I traveled with one of m...

Hello Everyone! Last night I returned from my fall break! I had an amazing week and did a ton of different things! Since I have 10 days worth of stories I am going to try and post a blog for each city so that it isn't 1 monstrous entry. To start I left on an early train Thursday to Torino. It was a 5 hour train and it went by pretty quickly which was nice (taking naps helped it go by quick!).On Thursday the only event for the food festival was the opening c...

Buona Sera Tutto! (good evening everyone) This weekend I stayed in Florence and did a lot of different things. First on Thursday night a few of my friends and I went out to dinner at a restaurant called Zaza which we heard a lot of great things about. I got gnocchi (potato pasta) in a tomato sauce and beef with rosemary and a lot of other seasonings. Dinner was a lot of fun and pretty good although I am still on the hunt for an absolutely amazing restaurant in F...

This weekend I went on a trip with my study abroad program to Verona and Venice. Saturday morning we left at 7am for Verona and it was about a 3.5 hour bus ride. When we got there we went on a 2 hour tour or Verona. The tour guide was awesome! She was the best one I've had on any tour in Italy so far. On the tour I learned that Romeo and Juliet might be a true story. There were 2 families in Verona that were very similar to the ones in the Shakespeare play that h...