Back in Barcelona once more! This time after 2 weekends in a row visiting Spanish cities. I'll try to start again where I left off... I can't remember doing much on Wed and Thur of the week before I went to Madrid. Friday morning we took the Ave, an extremely fast train, to Madrid from Barcelona. I fell asleep for most of it. I'm learning that the ability to completely pass out asleep on moving vehicles is a good thing to have. When we got to Madrid, we ch...

Day 4 of not eating chocolate, flight to Greece and Istanbul for Spring Break booked, a sailing lesson Tuesday, a wonderful package from Grandma and Grandpa, a concert tonight, Sevilla this weekend and 60 degrees and sunny in Barcelona!! Today is a great day :)

So I have noticed with this blog that I can't say where I went, only where I am. Just letting you know that I'm not actually still in Paris right now, but wanted to write "from" Paris, minor detail... Ok, so where I left off. Like I said, I was going to a day trip to Girona and Besalu on Saturday. Both cities were very beautiful, but definitely only worth seeing in one day. We didn't luck out too much with weather, in fact, Barcelona area had an ex...

OK, so I haven't been on here for quite some time (sorry), but I've been just so busy! There is so much in Barcelona that I want to see and do, and I haven't even done half of it. Anyway, so I left off at Toulouse... The day I got back from Toulouse, I really did not do much that week. I did have 2 walking tours that week which were interesting. One of them was for the "Barrio Gotico" which is the oldest part of Barcelona. We saw some really old s...

Unexpectedly, I am writing this wall post from Toulouse, France. A friend of mine, Miao, that I work with at Starbucks in Madison has been traveling around Europe for the past couple of weeks of winter break. On Friday night around 8pm, I was on Facebook and started chatting with him. He said he was in Toulouse and staying with some friends at their apartment. He asked if I wanted to visit him at all. Unfortunatley he was only staying until next Friday, and ...