São Miguel Island March 13-15
São Miguel is quite possibly the most beautiful, most underrated island destination in the world. Okay, maybe not the MOST underrated, I don’t have much knowledge in the way of islands, but it was definitely a highlight of my entire experience in Europe. First off, I didn’t even know it existed until Mitchell mentioned it to us when we were trying to make spring break plans, but I can’t imagine never experiencing it now that I have.
1) It’s beautiful. No, not beautiful. As many synonyms as you can think of for the word beautiful, all combined into one, and then multiplied by a thousand.
2) It’s cheap. Trust me, there are definitely more expensive places you could be visiting over your spring break. (But should you be?? No! Go to São Miguel!)
3) There is so much to do! Hiking? YES! Hot springs? Cheap! ATV tour? Do it! Paragliding? We didn’t do that, but that doesn’t mean you can’t!
4) Everything is GREEN! If green isn’t your favourite colour already it will be after one look at all of the foliage you’ve missed out on living in Bonn for three months. This is your chance to soak up the sun and soak up the chlorophyll.
5) Did I mention it was beautiful?? Mountains, beaches, cities, COWS—the island has it all.
Random Things:
- We reunited with Izzie in the airport in Porto and she joined us for the rest of Spring Break.
- Our rental car: Cheap, functional, and overall a real trooper! Seriously, that poor little car hauled us up and down the winding mountain roads rain or shine, light or dark without fail. It even made its own music for us to enhance the experience! (Wait, you mean a car shouldn’t be making clunking sounds? Oh…)
- I had the top bunk in the airbnb and it had a shelf next to it!!!! Perfect for my tissues :) (#itsthelittlethings)
- Apple maps sucks. Seriously, we almost drove down a staircase. Download Google maps, my friends.
- Having 4 people squeeze into the backseat of a tiny car gets a bit uncomfortable. But I was usually resident DJ which made it a much better experience.
- 5/6 people enjoyed my music and that made me really happy. (Can’t win ‘em all.)
- We also used the timer on my phone to take pics on the beach and that was a really good time.
- So. Many. Birds!
(And here begins the lamest blog in the history of blogs)
Lisbon March 16
Random Things:
- Alfama walking tour
- cheesy cod cakes—yum!
- many thanks to the lady that let us leave our bags at a hostel we weren’t even staying in so we didn’t have to carry them around
- Too. Many. Hills!
Madrid March 17-18
Random Things:
- really expansive (and crowded!) flea market
- Favorite purchase: lil bird whistle (it’s adorable!)
- the churros were no match for the cookie-topped milkshake I got
- the architecture—LOVE
- instead of a tooth fairy they believe in a tooth mouse and he’s pretty cute (Ratoncito Pérez)
(Feel free to check out the other kids’ blogs for more on what we actually did—shoutout to Mitchell’s cause he just posted as I’m writing this and his is pretty good. I may come back and add more detail to this blog later, but I wouldn’t count on it--a picture is worth a thousand words, so I don't actually have to write more. Right? :-) )
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