Places I've made it to over this past year, alone
Some of these were redos from traveling with my family, but still:
London (of course)- and other little places around England (namely Bath, the other Cotswolds, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Winchester, Norwich, Liverpool and Manchester)
Amsterdam
Athens
Santorini
Mykonos
Crete
Kusadasi/Ephesus, Turkey
Paris, three times
Aix-en-Provence, France
the Auvergne Region, France
Madrid
Barcelona
Edinburgh
Cairo and Luxor, Egypt
Budapest
Vienna
Prague
Berlin
Marrakech
Reykjavik
the Algarve region, Portugal (Almancil and Faro)
Lisbon, too
Florence!
Cinque Terre
and today, Venice
...and I feel so blessed. Even more blessed that I got to extend my time abroad past the April-norm and expand it to encompass both an internship and another country. Over the past ten months, I have ridden horses through piles of orange leaves in Hyde Park, gotten blackout drunk off of Sangria, worn plaid in Scotland, slept in a Genie Bottle, made real photographs using trays of chemicals, been on a date with Mr. Darcy, ridden a camel across the desert, built a snowman (midget), swam in the Mediterranean and the Blue Lagoon, been (possibly) sexually harassed by the town drunk of Vienna, spent a honeymoon-status weekend in a haunted Cheateau, gotten hostel rash, enjoyed Mapplethorpe and Michealangelo next to one another, met Margaret Thatcher, held real dinosaur bones, and made my best friends at Pepperdine. It's been a beautiful whirlwind of a year; I have zero regrets going home to Florida in a week, and onward to California in a little over a month.
And just between you and me, I'm actually beginning to look forward to it.
London (of course)- and other little places around England (namely Bath, the other Cotswolds, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Winchester, Norwich, Liverpool and Manchester)
Amsterdam
Athens
Santorini
Mykonos
Crete
Kusadasi/Ephesus, Turkey
Paris, three times
Aix-en-Provence, France
the Auvergne Region, France
Madrid
Barcelona
Edinburgh
Cairo and Luxor, Egypt
Budapest
Vienna
Prague
Berlin
Marrakech
Reykjavik
the Algarve region, Portugal (Almancil and Faro)
Lisbon, too
Florence!
Cinque Terre
and today, Venice
...and I feel so blessed. Even more blessed that I got to extend my time abroad past the April-norm and expand it to encompass both an internship and another country. Over the past ten months, I have ridden horses through piles of orange leaves in Hyde Park, gotten blackout drunk off of Sangria, worn plaid in Scotland, slept in a Genie Bottle, made real photographs using trays of chemicals, been on a date with Mr. Darcy, ridden a camel across the desert, built a snowman (midget), swam in the Mediterranean and the Blue Lagoon, been (possibly) sexually harassed by the town drunk of Vienna, spent a honeymoon-status weekend in a haunted Cheateau, gotten hostel rash, enjoyed Mapplethorpe and Michealangelo next to one another, met Margaret Thatcher, held real dinosaur bones, and made my best friends at Pepperdine. It's been a beautiful whirlwind of a year; I have zero regrets going home to Florida in a week, and onward to California in a little over a month.
And just between you and me, I'm actually beginning to look forward to it.