My opinions, updates on my life, all sorts of "randomness"...

I'm at this laundromat/internet place, so I have a bit of time to post while I wash basically everything I have with me. Gotta love that it all fits in one load...

Sunday, October 29th
The rest of Barcelona was awesome. Went up to Montjuic (literally "Hill of the Jews," supposedly there used to be a Jewish cemetery up there), saw some of the stadiums where the Olympics were, and this awesome castle. At the castle there were this kids "mountain" climbing up one of the walls. Tried talking to them for a bit, but they didn't really speak English, and I clearly don't speak Spanish. Asked one of them if they were allowed to be climbing there. His response? "Why not? It's been here many years. Why would they have it, if they didn't want us to climb?" Love it. From there I went to Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia, totally amazing.


Monday, October 30th
Day tripped to Montserrat. Awesome. Did some crazy hiking up this mountain, incredible views, walked up hundreds of steps, totally cool.


Tuesday, October 31st
Gaudi's Park Guell. Fully felt like I had stepped into a fairy tale, complete with children laughing & playing, thanks to the school in the park. Then stressed out a bit, since I had no idea where my ferry leaving from, but thanx to Dad's help, I figured it out. No joke, I called him in the States so he could help me figure it out. Lame, right? I was that stressed...

October 31st-November 1st, "Somewhere in the Mediterranean"

The ferry was great. Met this awesome guys, Peter (Canadian) and Andrew (South African) and we chillled together the whole time. Amazing weather, sunny, hot, I was even tanning in my bathing suit on the deck...

November 1st-5th, Rome
Rome has been awesome. Peter and I said goodbye to Andrew, got off the train, and used my Let's Go to try and find a hostel. On the way we ran into this Aussie kid, Julian, obviously another backpacker (the huge backpack he was wearing gave it away), so the three of us walked around together. Found this great place, Alessandro Legends.

Met some awesome people in Rome, had a blast. Shabbat there was super cool, mate these amazing Israeli women at services, Amira & Ayelet, who invited me to have dinner with them at this cute little hotel they were staying at.

Saw all the big typical places, the Colleseum, Trevi Fountain, loved them all... Like I said before, the people at Legends were all awesome....Julian, the Utah boys (Colton, Danie & Chris), the Canadian couple (Morgan & Mellissa)... I love how when you're travelling the way you think of the people you meet, how usually the last thing you find out about someone is their name, after you already know their life story and possibly already trusted them to watch your bag with your entire life in it while you quickly went to the bathroom... Amazing.

Okay, that's all about Rome I can think of right now (as I sit here in Prague trying to recreate it and pretend I didn't delete the original post)... But I'm sure at some point at the end of this post I had sais something about being excited to meet up with Andrew the next day so him, Peter, & I could hit up Florence...




11/24 Update: So in my attempt to go back and add pictures, I accidently deleted half this post. Awesome. Soooo, some of it might be different than last time you read it....Especially the Rome part...