A lot of extensive research and planning went into making this European graduation trip work. We had to figure out where we wanted to go, how to get to there, where to stay, and what we wanted to do while we were there – all for NINE different cities! However, despite all Read more…
We had pre-arranged with our private cab driver to pick us up early from our hotel and drive us the 45ish minutes to the Shannon airport. This ride was even worse for me than the busses a few days earlier, but I think that was more food poisoning related than anything Read more…
Our flight landed in Dublin around 9pm, so we didn’t do much that night except get settled in the hotel. We stayed at Grafton Capital Hotel for slightly under $50 each. However, in the years since we were there, it has been significantly renovated and is now called the Grafton Hotel, and Read more…
The next morning we flew from Paris to Amsterdam for $56 each. Ashley and I are both very Dutch. My great-great grandparents were born in the country of Holland and died in the city of Holland in the US. We grew up in a place where we got school off for parades celebrating everything Read more…
After leaving Venice in an absolute downpour, we took a flight from Venice to Paris for just over $100 each. It landed in Paris at 10:30pm, and having my index cards with hotel addresses on them was incrediblyuseful in this case, as it was late and dark and neither one of us Read more…
My fascination with Venice goes back to somewhere in middle school. We had been given an assignment to chose any picture and caption from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick and write a story based on it. Ultimately, I ended up writing two because I couldn’t decide which one I liked more, but one of Read more…
After spending a few days in my Spanish hometown, we flew from Santander to Rome, via Madrid. We stayed at a hotel that was called Hotel Fiamma, which appears to now be called Smooth Hotel Rome Repubblica. It is very near to Roma Termini, the main railway station in Rome, and within Read more…
The next stop on our Euro tour was also the most obscure, but it had solid reasoning behind it. Two years prior to this trip, I spent 8 weeks studying Spanish at an international university in Santander, as had the third member of our little travel party. It’s more of a travel Read more…
If you read our posts about Iceland, you may remember we talked about our preference for overnight flights – that is, leaving the US in the evening and arriving in Europe the next morning. It’s a helpful way to help reset your internal clock and beat jetlag, and you don’t Read more…
More than three years after the fact, I can no longer say why we decided that the appropriate place to go for a joint graduation trip was Europe, but that’s where we ended up. I do know that we decided where in Europe we were going to go by each making Read more…