Study Abroad: Czech Republic : Personal Excursions(10) -- Spring Break!!

Before leaving to study abroad I had not traveled much. Most of my vacations consisted of visiting a boarding state of Nebraska and an occasional farther special trip. All of these trips of course I accompanied someone else who had already planned it out and had the budget worked out. This study abroad experience has really tested my comfort zone and traveling skills. The past two weeks I was gone traveling. The last week I experienced a spring break for the first time by traveling to three different countries. I started off spring break by taking a train to Rome. While in Rome I was able to see and tour Vatican City (St. Peter’s Square, the Museum, the Sixteenth Chapel, and Saint Peter’s Basilica), the Colosseum, The Roman Forum, the Trevi Fountain, and the Pantheon. After Rome we headed to Paris. We had an interesting start to Paris when it took us three hours just to find our hostel. Paris kept my feet busy by taking them to the Castle of Versailles, The Eiffel Tower (3 times), the Catacombs, Notre Dame, the Paris Opera House, the Louvre, Pont Des Arts ( the love bridge of locks), and to outside of Napoleon’s hospital and castle. After Paris wore my feet out, Barcelona decided to take them next. Barcelona was a whole different scenery. Everything looked so tropical and peaceful. We visited La Sagrada Familia, Park Güell, Christopher Columbus Statue, the boardwalk and obviously the beach.

I learned a lot about traveling during this last week. Some lessons are, make sure you have the directions to your hostel, make sure you find all of the directions you will need previous to leaving for the day or to the place, make sure you know how you are going transport yourself, make sure you double check the directions of the tram you get on, make sure you double check your flight numbers before confirming a flight so you don’t book the wrong one, and many more. The most important thing I learned is that is hard to plan and figure out every detail to your trip and you often forget to look thing up and one of the previous will happen to you, but when that does happen you just need to make the best of out the situation and remember it as a good memory to remember always of the trip.