That is how we started planning for our Spring Break, by finding really cheap flights... and that day came, when we packed our backpacks with "enough" clothes for 11 days... we had to man up, suck it up, and forget that we were girls.. haha.. It was rather interesting, specially towards the last days of our trip! but let's start from the beginning.
In this first blog I will tell you all some funny moments we had in each city... because there is so much to say about each country that it might take more than one blog for each!- so here it goes!
Barcelona - expensive hotel for poor college students? We figured that where two can fit, then more can fit as well! The first night we all snuggled in those tiny little beds, watched TV in Spanish, and a couple of us might or might not have jumped a really tall fence to escape from the hotel... hehehe... I won't say names, but it wasn't me! haha
Madrid - there was a strike in our airport because of our airline! they changed our flight and we had to take the next flight in the morning... we met a bunch of very interesting people in Madrid, our hostel was not too easy to find and it looked very sketchy from the outside, but it ended up being the best hostel ever!
We were a little hungry one day and came across an orange tree - yes, Kristin climbed the tree with our help and we got some, I wish they were tasty, but instead we got some acid and nasty oranges... haha.. At least some old ladies had fun taking pictures of us being monkeys!
Geneva - Little did we know that this small country in Switzerland is the 4th most expensive country in the world! hahaha... We almost missed our flight there, ran for our lives and made it on time, thanks to our backpacks!! nothing to check in... but once there, we were like.. ohhh whose idea was it to come here??!! haha.. we still had fun and got to see some drunk men fighting over a chess game!
Annecy - this was such pretty little place! mmmm smelling the fresh baked croissants coming out of the ovens of little cafes here and there was the best! One night there we paid a ridiculous amount of money for what we thought it was going to be a an experience of a delicious french cuisine... all we got was a brick of melting cheese, another pot of melting cheese and hard bread... haha.. that is "fondue" ladies and gentlemen... it wasn't bad, I must say... but 15 euros for bread and cheese? that's what our flight costed! haha..
Milan - we were told that Milan was the fashion and industrial city of Italy. It was the last city we hit before we came back to Holland, so as you can imagine, we were all stinky, tired, cold, and broke by the time we got there. On that last day we were trying to find some cheap cafes with wi-fi as a refuge from the snowy day - instead we found a fashionista lady from London who asked us to be her models for an event they were having out in the street. That was the BIGGEST irony... we were in our worst looks of the whole trip, and we were modeling in the capital of the fashion in Italy! Italians were taking pictures of us posing, futbol players were asking for our numbers... haha...
In times like these is when I think that God has the greatest sense of humor... but we traveled everywhere and came back safe, thanks to God who all the time watches over us :)