Travels

This is the part where I tell everyone about my travel plans for the month of March! I will be acquiring many new exciting stamps and things on my passport and taking an embarrassing number of photographs in the following locations:

PARIS

Claire, Sydney, Alissa, and myself will be going to Paris for what will certainly be two of the craziest days of my life from March 20-22. We're basically going to see all the big sights and gorge ourselves with croissants. They're might also be some shopping. 

And of course, the main reason we're going:  to put paper cranes on Jim Morrison's grave. A sort of "Thank You" and "You kick so much ass!" gift from the dance drama kids. 

PRAGUE

The day after Paris, Claire and Syd will jump on a plane back to Dublin, while I will hop onto a plane bound for Prague. Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic, and everyone I know who has been has nothing but good things to say about it. I'll be there from March 23rd-26th. 

Eastern Europe, ahoy. 

(And, so help me, I will also get to Hungary before I leave Europe if I have to hop on a gypsy caravan to get there.)

I'm meeting up with Monika, Jessica, and Cat in Prague. From there we will travel together to:

SPAIN 

Barcelona, Madrid and Granada

March 26th we fly to Barcelona from Prague. We're flying on a Spanish airline, and I'm really excited to finally put Spanish to a useful purpose. And also kind of interested to see if I actually can use my Spanish. Meaning, will anyone who actually speaks Spanish have any idea what the hell I'm talking about?

We're staying in Barcelona for 3 days. I'm hoping for "warm" weather. This is a relative term. Right now, I consider anything over 52 degrees to be a miracle. If it's in the 60s I'll be happy. If it's in the 70s, I just might actually weep for joy. 

On the 29th we're taking a train to Madrid, where we will be for another 3 days and I will be, hopefully, living in El Prado. I'm especially excited for El Prado because I remember sitting in a history class in high school and reading about a Velázquez painting and learning that it was housed there. I remember thinking, "I'm going to go there one day." Well, boo-ya! Velázquez, I'm coming. (I just hope the painting isn't on loan, or something...)

From Madrid we'll head to the south, again via train, on the 1st of April. We'll be in Granada for three additional days, which will include a tour of Alhambra Castle. 

We will come back to London, completely exhausted the night April 3rd. 

That's all I have for now. Soooo excited!!!