The idea for this trip had been in the works for a few months. As soon as I committed to moving to Spain, Schuette emailed me and said we needed to pick a time to travel. Although my job is a joke, unlike studying abroad, I cannot just pick a week to take off and travel so we decided my Spring Break or Semana Santa would be the best and most logical choice. The two stipulations being that we somehow work a Tottenham match into the mix and to see a part of Europe that isn't as popular as say a Paris or Rome. Thus our 10 day extravaganza to London (for the match), Vienna, Budapest and Prague was born. As the year progressed a few others decided to join us in our conquering of Eastern Europe: Harry, Nate (Denison, SigEp alums) who I had met for the first time and Simon. All in all, I would say that we had the most ideal group to travel with as everyone's interests pretty much coincided. To avoid a long winded description of the domination we handed each city I will instead highlight some of the best parts of the trip with some photos to accompany them.
- First visit to Tottenham's grounds: White Heart Lane and a 2-0 Spurs victory
- View's of London from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral
- Spending a night in a London airport
- incredible architecture throughout Vienna and the beginning of the Easter markets
- natural springs outdoor baths in Budapest (some created natural whirlpools)
- karaoke in Hungarian
- first overnight European train ride
- Prague: my favorite city in Europe
- the chance to meet up with my sister
- shooting a variety of military grade weapons in the woods of the Czech Republic
- nightclubs, bars, traditional food in all of the aforementioned places
Couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my Spring Break....and now it is time to focus on the final stretch of the school year while trying to figure out what i will be doing in the coming months....
