Sunday, June 14, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Maastricht
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
this one was a bit late due to internet availability issues... but i wrote this several days ago
Currently I am riding on my first high speed train journey. We are on the way to Brussels in order to connect to our program in Maastricht. Yesterday we spent the day in the great city of Paris. I thouroughly enjoyed walking around the city and experiencing the justle and bustle. We saw a lot of sights in only a couple hours so we were pretty exhausted last night. In the afternoon before we checked into our hostel which was very near to the large church on the major hill to the north of the city. The name of this cathedral escapes me but it had one of the most amazing views of the downtown and of course was packed with tourists (and the ever accompanying pickpockets). Later after naps and showers we went down to the Champs de Elysees to see the Catdedral de Notre Dame and the Arc de Triomphe. So absolutely amazing!! There were thousands of people surrounding Notre Dame and there also was a bread festival outside. We bought some crepes on our way to the Louvre. The Louvre was so much larger than what I imagined, it seemed to go on forever. We got pretty hungry so we decided to have our first pretty nice meal because the food in Paris smelled and looked amazing. We ended up at a small place right off the Champs de Elysees. I had pate with carmalized onions, duck, and a french beer. It was one of the best meals I’ve had in a long time. The duck was absolutely perfectly cooked! Later we split into two groups to do a bit of shopping, and ended up meeting at the end of the night at the Arc. We went on top for only 5 euro and saw the entire city from the very center. Very cool view! We decided it would be prudent to head to bed early v=because we had to be on the train by 825 today. We are just now arriving in Brusseles and later we make our way to Maastricht. More to come in a couple days.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Today we are planning on heading down to the beach and doing dome sightseeing, but it is supposed to rain a lot so not sure how well that will work out.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Barcelona Day 1
Well we finally made it to our hostel, which was quite a confusing trip once we got off the bus. The flight went very well and we met some kids from UNC that were headed to Sevilla for the summer. It was interesting getting off the flight from Philadelphia because they questioned about swine flu and we had to fill out a bunch of paperwork. As we got off there were a bunch of police and they all had masks and were checking people for symptoms. Not very relaxing! I started to take a bunch of photos and was quickly approached by a police officer and in spanish he started demanding that I delete them all. So i frantically tried to figure out how to do this, and finally i just erased the whole thing. Anyways heres a view from our hostel.