Month: December 2014

This morning, I’m leaving for a month of travel in Eastern Europe. I’m flying into Tallinn, Estonia, then traveling through Latvia and Lithuania to Warsaw, Poland. There, I’ll meet my parents and sister before traveling onward to the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. Afterwards, my path is yet to be determined, but I have […]

My overnight train arrived in Madrid a little before 7:30am, and after leaving our luggage in a locker and getting a light breakfast, my friend and I boarded another train to El Escorial, the summer residence of the Spanish kings in the mountains outside of Madrid. The mountains were silent. After months in the perpetual […]

Time for a few long-overdue blog posts. I was in Spain from November 21 to 26 and had a great six days there. The first four days of the trip were spent in Barcelona and the second two in Madrid. I was up well before dawn on Friday morning to board a train to Gatwick […]