Travel Bug ...

I’ve got it, and it’s a good thing that a two-week vacation is coming up at the end of February. Tina Lee gets to Paris on Friday the 15th, and we recently bought tickets to fly from Paris to Athens the following day. So we’re going to spend a week in Greece … which conveniently overlaps with the several-week festival of Carnival in Greece! I think we’ll spend the first couple of days in Athens, and from there we’re not really sure where we’re going to go. We’ve both read a lot about the different cities and islands, but since it’s low season (and we shouldn’t have too much of a problem finding lodging somewhat last-minute, knock-on-wood), we’re going to somewhat play it by ear. That’s usually the most interesting way to travel, anyway :) Then we fly back to Paris on the 23rd to have a day and a half there. Tina leaves to go home on Monday the 25th, and I’m going to Spain with a couple of my roommates. We just bought tickets today to fly from Paris to Madrid on the afternoon of the 25th … with a return flight from Barcelona to Paris on Sunday the 2nd. So that gives us 6 days in Spain, probably spending 2 days in Madrid and 3 in Barcelona, with a bit of flexibility in between. I also just found out that we could see an FC Barcelona game while we’re there, but it’s the semi-final match in the Spanish Cup so the date/time hasn’t been confirmed yet. But yeah that would be pretty cool to see! Ever since the ’06 World Cup I’ve been pretty intrigued by the Argentine Lionel Messi … you’d know this if you saw any of my rants at Brit’s during the World Cup that summer! I’m definitely ready for some quality traveling, so now that the flights have been made, my only challenge will be trying to stick to a budget to make this happen!