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Good evenin' folks,

I saw this while I was creating my Facebook page and loved it. This photo was taken in Spain January 2015 during our Spain new years trip via EF College Break. Last year to travel with them due to age.
I want to say this was in Sevilla, Spain. Where they actually filmed Games of Thrones scenes for this current's season. This was called "The Most Romantic Spot".

Recap for my brain

So my memory isn't that great at times. So will be doing a recap. 

Barcelona

Hostel w several beds to a room. Free coffee and hot chocolate machine. Near diagonal. Busy street. Casa...

Madrid

Room 007 chueca in the gay area. Which was great. Close to plaza de sol.any things nearby. Bunk beds. Ethan had his little cave. 

Granada

One night at princessa Ana. Gorgeous hotel but far from city center. Cathedral was here. Lots of Arabic shops. 

Toledo

Didn't stay here but visited the old city. Also an awesome craft maker store. 

La alambraha visit. 

Sevilla 

Real hostel. Oasis palace. Bunk beds in rooms. For ten. A bit much. 

Close enough to downtown. 

Marbella

Got private room. Actual hotel. Many shops. 

Morocco

Camel

Shopping 

Madrid, Toledo

2nd week

 Granada 1 night 

What did I do? 

Sevilla 2 nights  

Grand Tour of Spain - Day 1&2

Day one 

Overnight flight to Paris and connecting flight to Barcelona. Left at 450pm CST.  Paris by 9 and Barcelona by 11. 

Could not sleep on that 9 plus hour flight. Miserable. 

Day two

Barcelona

Arrived a airport and out tour guide , Elena, messages us via whatsapp so we can meet. I only have service via wifi so luck they offered thirty min of wifi. For free. 

We took two taxis to hotel as their was 6 of us total. Nice folk from Wisconsin. 

Arrived at hotel and I am rooming w one other girl. Ethan is rooming w 2 guys. My room has 6 beds and nothing is being used. Shame. Couldn't bring Ethan in bc of roomie. 

So we transferred out usd at deutche bank for euros. DeceNt exchange. 

Then walked down the Main Street out front until we turned around. Saw two gauge stfu tired on the Main Street. 

Back to hotel and drank hot chocolate for free. Then, rested feet and mft for tour meeting at 4ish. We walked the city at night. 

Had chicken paella for dinner and walked back hotel. So far , good day. 

Point of pictures

What is the point of taking photographs if you are unable to display them somewhere? I am a bit of a pack rat and can not put more things on the wall in the office but this is why I started the blog. I try to post the best of the best!!

I have other trips I can review with you guys. Since I have been working on the scrapbook for them since 2007. Yeah a bit ridiculous.

So,

Posts on italy/greece 07 is coming and our
European Road trip 09/10!!

Iceland - Day 6

Today after breakfast at the hotel we were picked up by 'Iceland Excursions'. Once again routed to bus terminal and boarded our tour van on monster truck wheels. LoL. Everything here is a super jeep. 

Tour of the day: south coast, waterfalls and glacier walk. 

WOW!! That is all I can say. Today was an amazing day out. The usual stopping at pit stops to use bathroom and get a bite because at the glacier walk location, no bathrooms. 

In order of occurrence

Waterfalls: these waterfalls are beautiful. Something about just staring into pouring water. There were steps to go to the top and we took them. I was crossing my fingers that I wouldn't die by the time I reached the top. Out of shape. Shame. View was great. I don't use names because I would just buture them. Ice everywhere. At the bottom of the falls slipping all over but we got close enough to get wet a bit. :)

Waterproof shoes help here a lot. Gloves!!! 

Glacier Walk:

Holy BA-joley! Most amazing thing to experience. We are taught how to put ice clamps on and given ice picks as a third leg. Steep slopes, holes with no end, evil snow. I mean, imagine doing just this the whole trip. I'd be psyched. Sprinkled a bit. And we were told the glacier went further out and it was snowing on the other end. I really enjoyed it. 

All winter gear required here. Jacket , hopefully waterproof. Gloves, beanie or earmuffs. Keep warm up top. Oh. And waterproof shoes!

South Coast, on beach: ash is everywhere. On the beach it is.  Stopped out here to eat and shop. We then walked the beach which had ash of a volcano rather than sand. So squishy. And windy!! 

Jackets and scarves required. Gloves too. 

Waterfalls: 

On the return we stopped at one more waterfall which normally you can walk behind but due to icy conditions we could not walk behind it. It was dark already so I chose to use a ledge as a tripod and photographed us. 

Overheard that the cloud cover tonight is bad. So northern light your is cancelled. Heard they didn't see anything yesterday either. 

Which means when we saw it on the 1st with Volcano Tours we picked a good date. Yay. 

Oh, and food is expensive. $13 for a burger at a pass through restaurant. Why???

Overall, this is top tour besides northern lights. 

Back to Reykjavik and to hotel to prepare for tomorrow. Eating cheap at home! 

Eek, saw northern lights for a second time. Bus pulled over and I got one good shot with camera. Pictures posted when back in the states.