And we have finally arrived…..at my last trip for the semester. However, since my last trip was to Greece, I have about a million and a half photos SO I am breaking up the week into a few posts. Which means less endless scrolling and more blue-and-white filled photos for all of you! This is […]
Shippin’ Up to Boston
The hardest part of coming back from studying abroad is realizing that you can’t just pick up and travel somewhere new every weekend. I told myself that, even though I can’t hop on a plane to a new country every Friday, I was going to travel more, even if it meant going on little day […]
Mo-rockin’ my World
(sorry for my cheesy title, I couldn’t resist!) If you read my Seville post, you know that we nearly didn’t make it to Morocco. But I am so, so glad we did. I don’t know when I would get to Morocco otherwise; I had been wanting to visit forever, and since Africa really is just […]
Seville in Half a Day
When I told people we were going to Seville for only a day, they looked at me like I had two heads. Why are you going back to Spain, you already went? Why only a day? Why didn’t you plan to go earlier? WELL, long story short, we planned several different trips that ended […]
Lisbon
I had really weird (read: low) expectations for Portugal. I think because we were leaving right at the end of finals week and I was still working on take-home exams during the first day of our trip, afterwards we were heading to Greece, and then I had 2 more days in Amsterdam before heading home. My […]
What to Pack: Study Abroad
I’m starting to wind down on my study abroad posts, as I only have a few more trips left to blog about! But, since the semester is about to start and many people are preparing for their fall semester abroad, I wanted to give a few tips now that I’m an ‘expert’ (ha, hahahaha). Packing […]
Delft Blue
One of the main things that people forget about study abroad is the first half: the ‘study’ part. It is so easy to fall into the trap of spending too much time traveling, partying, hanging out with all your new friends, or exploring your city, while neglecting the fact that you still have to […]
London Calling
I cannot tell you how long London had been on my must-see list. It was one of those cities that I knew I had to get to, somehow, while I was studying abroad. It is barely a 45 minute flight from Amsterdam- quite literally a hop, skip, and a jump, so short that you spend more time in the […]
Road Trip
Note to self: don’t bike from Amsterdam to Marken. It looks far on the map, it is far. But, you get some pretty great photos out of it. After hitting the Coffee Festival, Rachel and I had planned to wander around Noord, or North Amsterdam, which lies across the IJ (pronounced ‘eye’ and yes, both […]
More Coffee, Please…
As the semester started to wind down and I had crossed off most of the items on my Amsterdam to-do list, I wanted to find things that I couldn’t do every day or in any other city. So when Rachel heard about the Amsterdam Coffee Festival, my inner coffee addict screamed “YES!” I’m drinking a […]