Just Arrived in Barcelona

Hello everyone.

I just arrived in Barcelona. It appears to be a very cool city from the few blocks we walked. We already passed a ton of Gaudi architecture. They love him here. Its cool to see an architect painted as a celebrity.

The hostel we are staying as is wonderful. Its nicer than any of the hotels we stayed at in France.

I guess before I go into any more detail, I'll back up to explain where I'm at on my trip.

I studied architecture in Paris for five weeks then boarded a bus to travel Eastern France for a week. We visted Nancy, Dijon and Lyon. This morning, I flew to Barcelona with two girls from my class. We will be here for five days.

The itinerary for the next months looks like:

Barcelona- now until the 16th.

We fly to Prague afterwards for five days.

Then we head for Crete for three days. We then board a ferry to Santorini for the weekend. We leave Sunday night on an nine hour ferry ride to Athens. I leave my friends in Athens after two days for Milan to meet up with my family.

My family and I are traveling Italy to see our family. The whole clan is coming. Parents, brother, aunt, nana, my cousin and his family. We are going to a wedding in Torino the first two days. After that, we drive down the coast to Sorrento. Along the way, we will visit my nana's hometown in Naples. We'll spend about four days in Sorrento. Ironically, that is where Emma, my girlfriend, is studying abroad right now. We drive back to Torino to say goodbye to our newly acquainted family and fly off to the states. I return the August 8th.

Its about one more month. In total, I'll have been in Europe for two and half months. Not a bad summer.

Time to go explore Barcelona!