Travel

Laura Cobb and I spend a good 3 hours sitting in my room tonight, hammering out travel plans. We have had some success. Although, I am still unclear about March 24th through March 31st because it is dependent on what the people I'm in Florence with want to do.

Laura and I really want to meet up in Nice on March 27th and hang out there for three nights, enjoying the French Riviera. That hasn't been booked yet, but we're going to make it happen. And then, somehow, we are going to get from Nice to Barcelona. We're thinking some sort of train route, but we're having trouble finding them. We might take a train from Nice to Montpellier, stay a night in Montpellier, and then go from there to Barcelona. But that needs to be figured out.

But things that we for sure have (as in they are booked!):

March 31st: arrive in Barcelona, hostel for three nights booked.
April 3rd: take a plane to Madrid, hostel for three nights
April 6th: fly to Paris, hostel for three nights
April 9th: train to Brussels (haven't booked any trains yet), hostel for a night
April 10th: train to Amsterdam, hostel for two nights
April 12th: fly back to London!

Of all the locations, Laura and I had the hardest time finding accomodation in Amsterdam. The hostels were either all booked, required a minimum of three nights stay or would jack their prices up to like $50 a night for the Friday night as opposed to the $20 on Thursday. So in desperation, we ended up booking this hostel that is actually, get this, a Christian hostel. I mean, it's centrally located and I'm sure it will be clean and safe and full of nice people, but it's a religious hotel in a city that has legal marijuana and prostitution. Hmm or maybe they showed up because of it. Felt the need to save the city. Whatever, it will be fine.

So yeah, that's some travel so far. It's very exciting to know that this is all actually happening and nothing is outrageously priced either. All my flights are between 30-50 Euro, the trains that we're taking will probably be in the same price range, and the hostels aren't terrible. Yay for a lot of travel on not a lot of money!

I'm super stoked.

Just need to get March 24th to March 31st figured out, any suggestions? I'll do it tomorrow. It's late right now.