Holiday in Spain...
This past weekend was amazing. Heading into the weekend I was a little nervous. Four of my friends and I had decided that the trains were not going to stop us from getting to Barcelona. Our plan for Easter weekend had been made long before we realized that all the trains to Barcelona were full and we had no way to get there. So Plan B. We rent a car and road-trip it. As many of you know I have been on a few road trips in my life so this was not what I was nervous about.... It was the European road trip that kinda had me freaking out.
Why the heck does France charge sooo much for people to drive on their roads? What happens if we get a flat or break down in Germany or Luxembourg or France or Spain or even the Netherlands for that matter? (I guess it wouldn't be so bad in France or Spain or the Netherlands because Bev can speak French and Laurie knows Spainish and Leanne knows Dutch.. but none of us know German) What happens if we can't find a gas station open at night? What happens if we are too tired to drive and can't find a place to sleep? What happens if we get lost? (we don't have a map just directions from the internet so we wouldn't be able to figure out where we were) What the heck are kilometers?? What if.....??? You get the point.
So on Thursday we (Bev, Emily, Leanne, Laurie and I) have dinner at Laurie's house as a send off provided by her host parents... then we get in the car (man I have missed being in cars and just driving places.... it was all the better because it was raining and I didn't have to bike in the rain.) Leanne and Laurie were the legal drivers (the ones that we had put of the rental form thing) so they did most of the driving. We had no problems with the directions...we didn't get lost... we had no car trouble... the French do charge way tooo much to use their roads.... we had a great road trip ...played car games... had awesome conversations (I love road-trip-conversations....... did you know that pee spelled backwards is eep? we all know what that means!) We were able to fill up when we needed to..usually... I still have no sense of how far a kilometer is.... but We made it to Barcelona!!
Barcelona....{content sigh} beautiful Barcelona.....
So leaving Zwolle it was raining and cold....about 17 hours later..... entering Barcelona it was sun shine and warm! We got into Barcelona and found a place to park...(by the way paying for parking sucks!!) We walked to La Rambla (famous street in Barcelona.... it also just happens to be the street that the flat that we rented was on) and we got into our wonderful flat. Dropped off our stuff and headed to the Beach.... That night we had real Spanish food.....yummmm lekker!
Saturday was suppose to rain but it didn't.... we walked around the city and saw the beautiful-ness and the architecture of Gaudi. Man it was great...... we then bought food to make dinner and breakfast and such.
Sunday Easter Morning.... we had looked up a church that we could go to.... International church of Barcelona.... so we headed to this church and participated in an English church service. It was great to be able to understand and to meet so many people from all over the place that all worship the same Awesome God!!!! After church what could we do but head to the Beach?!?!? It was so warm...23 degrees c. ..... So we laid on the beach all afternoon... I got a nice sunburn going on and It felt great!
Monday we had to leave and head back to the Netherlands and the coldness again ..... we made it back.
There is hardly any time left in the semester! this week and this weekend (I'm staying in Zwolle this weekend) then next week. Next Thursday I head to Italy and Greece for 10 days when I get back I have four days of final stuff and then the semester is over. I am then travelling with Ginger for 10 days and then I head home..... Man this semester has flown by!!
posted by Rachel @ 4/18/2006 08:46:00 PM
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