Study Abroad Misconceptions

It’s hard for me to not mention my experiences abroad every other day.  In fact, if I wasn’t working for CU Abroad 3 days a week with other study abroad students and faculty, I would have gone insane by now. All I want to talk about is traveling, and I’m almost afraid I overwhelm the [...]

Speyer by Day and Berlin by Night

My aunt lives in the center of Speyer, a small town next to Heidelberg, Germany. Her neighbors are artists, who sit around in the evenings, drinking red wine and discussing the latest in contemporary art. Her house, and the houses lining the cobblestone streets of Speyer, looks like a doll house — it’s yellow with [...]

For never was a story of more woe

April 19-20, 2011 At this point of the journey, everyday brought a new and unexpected adventure. When S. and I first sat down and planned this trip in the Studenterhuset, we were not expecting to be stuck in Figueres, Spain or Cerebres, France. And we were certainly not expecting to take a 20 hour train ride [...]

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Spanish Highway

April 16, 2011 If you want detailed articles of where to hitchhike, HitchWiki is the place to go. Most of the articles are accurate and up-to-date by fellow hitchhikers, and it’s a good reference to check whenever you want to hitchhike out of a city. There were three options, two of which were called out [...]

The Hitchhiking Begins: Toulouse to Barcelona

April 12, 2011 A big part of our trip was originally dedicated to hitchhiking, but due to the tight schedule we were on, we decided to get on a train from Brussels to Paris. We had a long lay-over in Paris. Since I had just been to Paris a few weekends ago with my Impressionism [...]

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