Madrid: Where a blonde and a redhead stick out like a sore thumb Meghan and I arrived in Madrid on Tuesday night around 10:00 pm. We had looked up the metro line and stop that we had to use to get to our hotel, but were a little confused at first how to get a metro ticket. There were kiosks set up that said "Tickets" and so we tried using one. As it turned out though, they were in Spanish and we could not get it to work in English nor find the name of the stop w...

J'aime Paris! Our third stop of our European adventure was Paris, where we stayed with my friend Suba. I met Suba and Elise when I was in Iceland on exchange last year, and they showed us all around on the weekend. We got to Paris close to 11:00 pm, and Elise and Suba met us as the train station. I was so excited to see them again! Elise had driven, so on our way to Suba's house (they both live just south of Paris actually), I was able to catch a glimpse of Par...

Amsterdam: Nothing but good times! So after we left Iceland, Meghan and I headed off to Amsterdam for a few days. We arrived in the middle of the afternoon and were able to find our way fairly quickly to our hostel. (By the way, to anyone traveling to Amsterdam and looking for a good hostel to stay in, I recommend The Flying Pig. We stayed at the Uptown location and it was really good - clean beds with linens, storage lockers, breakfast included, and good shower...

Goodbye Iceland... It's been fun! As I'm typing this I am sitting on a plane on my way to Amsterdam. Meghan and I took off at 8:00 this morning and now are going to go see some of the sites that Amsterdam has to offer. We will only be there for a day and a half because we take off to Paris on Friday morning. Anyways... More about the time in Iceland! As I mentioned in my last blog post, the weather would change in a matter of minutes, and one day it even snow...

Oh Iceland! How I have missed you! Well we have been in Reykjavik for three days now, and it's been a pretty relaxing few days. Meghan and I have wandered around downtown Reykjavik quite a bit, went to the Pearl (its a building here that is built between three water tanks, and at the top they have a balcony all around so you can have a 360 degree view of the surrounding area. I love the view from up there.), visited the National Gallery of Iceland, went to the f...