Destinations | Finding Todd

Spain

21 blogs

Europe 2013 | Day 9

Four hours sleep. That’s all I got last night as I got in after midnight from Porto and then had to wake up at 5am for my 8am flight to… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 10

Home cooking with Germans

It was still raining today and it ended up being a stay in kind of day. Hanna and Sabrina – the German girls I met the other night – were… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 11

Walking in circles

Today I did a day trip over to Toledo which is a town about an hour southwest of Madrid. The town pretty much consists of just hotels, restaurants and souvenir… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 12

Today four of us headed out to the outskirts of town to a flea market. Along with me were the German girls Hanna and Sabrina as well as someone new… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 18

Homemade pub crawl

So today was the end of my Moroccan adventure as I flew back to Madrid in the afternoon arriving in the early evening. Before I left though a couple of cool… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 19

Relax, STRESS, Relax

After the whole pub crawl debacle I came back to the hostel around 2am last night and proceeded to stay up until 5am catching up the blog. It was actually the latest… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 20

Bob Dylan and Moroccan tapas

I once again had only 4 hours sleep last night as I woke up at 6:30am in order to catch the 8am bus from Madrid to Granada. I thought I… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 21

Rain rain go away!

Ugh rain! I thought Vancouver had alot of rain. I stand corrected. Spain has ALOT of rain. It doesn’t drizzle either – it comes down in a downpour just out… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 22

Today was not a great day. In fact I had a hard time motivating myself to even write this blog. After doing laundry and heading to the bus depot to… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 23

Today I woke up bright and early to catch a 10am bus outta Granada to arrive in Seville 4 hours later. All day today was nice and sunny – in… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 24

American Invasion!

Well, apparently all the Germans are done with their break and have gone back to school/life because I haven’t met any of them recently. A new invasion has begun! In… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 25

The perfect day

For all that ailed me a few days ago – Seville was definitely the cure. I was blessed the last few days to be invaded by Americans. I met so many while… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 26

Bullfighting and mixed emotions

To say I was determined to see a bullfight would be an understatement. After all, I’m in Spain and what do Spaniards do? They eat tapas… check. They drink sangria…… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 27

Today I was in 4 cities. I started in Madrid after visiting again for just one night to see a bullfight. My next stop would be Cordoba – a town… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 28

I arrived in Barcelona late last night at almost midnight so by the time I got checked in and did all the computer stuff it was time for bed. One… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 29

Good friends and Monica Lewinsky

First let me start by saying that I have now started month two and I’ve already met so many great people and seen and done alot of amazing things and… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 30

More walking and more shooters

Today was almost a carbon copy of yesterday in that I did alot of walking and ended the night in the shooters bar. Today Rachel, Caroline and I got together again. We… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 31

Did I just stand in line for two hours?

Yes – I stood in line for two hours today. I’ll get to that in a bit… Today the three of us (Rachel, Caroline and myself) went out to Montserrat about… read more

Europe 2013 | Day 32

Today I was homeless. I actually checked out of the hostel at 11am but my flight to Rome didn’t leave for more than 19 hours. There was no sense in… read more

Jordan/Egypt 2025 | Day 1

Lunch in Paris, Dinner in Madrid

Alright, another new year, another new trip! Today marked the beginning of my 3 1/2 week Jordan/Egypt trip. Of course, the title of this blog is a tad bit misleading… read more

Jordan/Egypt 2025 | Day 2

Okay, now the real trip begins! After brief stops in Paris and Madrid yesterday, I was back up in the air again today. Destination: Jordan. A restless sleep I was… read more