Greetings from Barcelona! I just wanted to write a quick note to explain my recent absence. My Europe adventure has officially begun. Ireland has been covered and I'm now in Barcelona. Next up is Greece in a few days. Traveling abroad for the first time has certainly been an experience and I already have a ton of stories to tell. But I wanted to say that there will probably be radio silence for the next few weeks until I'm back in the states because whO wants to be stuck on a computer when there's so much to see here!
However here are a few of the interesting things I've learned so far on the way...
Wear comfortable shoes!!
Public transportation is acceptable abroad however most people really do walk everywhere. I feel like I haven't stopped walking since I got here and my feet are protesting loudly with another two weeks to go.
Hostels have water timers in their showers. Basically...you press a button into a wall and the water runs for the amount of time it takes for the button to push itself back out to it's starting position...aka about 15-20 seconds. And then you hav to push the button again. And again. And once again. It does make for efficient showers though.
Stick shift + driving on the wrong side of the road = nausea.
People in Ireland wear very strange stockings. And are often hard to understand.
Things are waaaay too expensive on this side of the pond. However wine is often cheaper than soda. Or water for that matter.
While it is apparently technically illegal...no one will stop you from buying bottles of wine or sangria and walking around with them on the street drinking from coffee cups.
Alright friends, I am off. Our first actual vacation day on this vacation starts tomorrow...beach, picnic, shopping, and pub crawls!
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