Spring break mañana!

Here are a couple of pictures from London and one picture of Emily and I in Madrid.  The picture with the dinosaur was at the Natural History Museum in London. The dinosaur I am standing in front of was a famous dino that I studied last semester.  Than there is a picture of Dave and I standing in front of Buckingham Palace.  One picture of Big Ben, not to be mistaken with Ben Austin, and the other picture is me standing in front of the London Eye. I wish I could give better descriptions of each picture but when I upload the pictures I never know what order they end up in on the page.

I would add more about my trip in London, the week with Emily, and the week with my Mom and Megan, but the days have cut me short and now our spring break is starting.  I start my 18 day spring break today! Almost too much time to be away from San Sebastian but I am stoked about my travels.  I will give a little itinerary here so that you have an idea where I am at on each day.  I am meeting up with a friend of mine from IOWA in Switzerland and I will be with him until Italy where I will be meeting up with one of my friends from San Sebastian, and we will finish the trip off together.

April 2:

Taking off from Bilbao Airport and will land in Zurich, Switzerland after a small lay over in the island of Palma Mallorca.  I am meeting Rob at the airport and we are staying a night in Zurich.  

April 3:

Early train to Interlaken, Switzerland.  We are staying at a bed and breakfast here in the middle of the Swiss Alps.  An adventurous city with a beautiful view.  We hope to do some hiking, maybe skiing, or some sky diving....  

April 5:

Train to Florence, Italy.  We are going to stay a couple days in Florence.  We both heard that it was a great city to visit so we figured we could check it out for a day or so.

April 7:

Train or bus to Rome, Italy.  This was our main destination in Italy.  So many awesome things to see in this city and I hope 3 days is enough to get it all.  Roman architecture and things such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be some hot spots for us.  

April 10:

Flight from Rome to Dublin, Ireland.  This is were I am meeting up with Dave.  We hope to stay a couple nights with a family friend of mine, Annie Johnson.  The other nights if we are not with her we might stay with some family of Dave's in the western countryside of Ireland which could be a neat experience.  We plan on going through the Guinness factory and the Jameson Whiskey factory.

April 15:

Flight from Dublin to Madrid, Spain.  We have a flight transfer here and than we take a flight to Casablanca, Morocco.  Yep thats in Africa.  Im definitely excited to visit Morocco, everything is dirt cheap so we plan on feasting like kings while we are there.  We also have planned a camel ride in the desert.  Hopefully we get some nice weather and it would be the same thing as going to Mexico, a little unstable but everything is cheap and the beer is cold.

April 19: 

We catch our final flight back to Madrid where we will have to ride a 7 hour bus back to San Sebastian, ouch.  

So a summary of where I will be and until when:

April 2: Zurich, Switzerland

April 3 - 4: Interlaken, Switzerland

April 5 - 6: Florence, Italy

April 7 - 9: Rome, Italy

April 10 - 14: Dublin, Ireland

April 15 - 19: Morocco, Africa

So 18 days straight of living out of a backpack.  Super stoked and a little anxious to get going.  I plan on being exhausted by the end of the trip but I am sure that it will be well worth it.  I will not have my computer on me but should have access to internet every once in a while.  I hope to make a post a few times over the next couple weeks just to update everybody.  If anybody has any good ideas for places to see or things to visit in any of these cities, please leave me a message, I am open for ideas.  Talk to you soon

Hasta Luego!

Luke