Easter in Eastern Europe: Prague and Berlin: Thur. April 9-Sun. April 12, 2009 One of my favorite things about the University of Maastricht is the schedule. Having a two week holiday break in between my two blocks of classes was definitely nice. My trip to London was rescheduled, but I was able to stay in Maastricht for more than a week and it was amazing. The weather was beautiful- I saw a blue sky (extremely rare in a Dutch spring) and it was about 70 degrees ...

Do ya Want a Guinness? Scotland and Ireland: March 27-31, 2009 Yah! Holiday Break! I love studying abroad because the Dutch have more respect for holidays and downtime…which means more traveling for me! So we decided to kick off our holiday break with a trip to Scotland and Ireland. We were able to book really cheap flights (I think one of them was a total of 5 British pounds), but we were doing a lot of random traveling. We started our journey and headed to ...

More Strudel? Vienna and Salzburg, Austria- March 20-23, 2009 So after taking a well-needed break from traveling, I headed to Vienna, Austria to meet up with Kellie. I have been excited about this trip ever since Julie told me about the AMAZING Sound of Music Tour she went on while in Salzburg. Kellie and I started planning our little excursion as soon as we found out we were both accepted to our respected programs. Lets just say I was excited…I watched the mo...

Parlez-vous Francais? - Rouen and Paris - March 5-8 So, once again, I took advantage of having friends studying all of Europe and went to stay with Sarah in Rouen, France. After my 7 hours of train and staying the night in Lille (which was surprisingly very nice), I made it to Rouen (pronounced kind of like Ron). Rouen is a small port city on the Seine about an hour NW of Paris. It is a nice city full of churches and history. I met Sarah bright and early from m...

My Italian Adventure: Florence and Milan 2/24-3/1 I love having friends abroad! Nothing is more fun than meeting up with my sisters from home and traveling all over Europe. It is also nice to have many places to stay and visit. During the remainder of my Carnivale break, I decided to fly down to warm and sunny Italy and visit Kellie, Lauren, Ashley, Abby, and Allison! So, on Tuesday, I took the early fight out of Eindhoven to Pisa, Italy. I was traveling by mys...