Day 18 - Spanish food.

Soooo today turned out to be great. I woke up really late Skyped for a fe hours with Paul, that was very much needed. Then I went for a little bit of a shop, got some stuff for the blisters on my feet, bought some more dresses and bought some souviners.

I also had burger king, because it was a cheap meal, and it was HUGE I think it was what a supersize size in the US would be like. Its also just Hungry Jacks lol.

THEN! Then I went to the Spanish cookin class I booked through busabout. Maxine, maria and mel also came, it was SOOOOOO worth the 20 euros.



First we were taken to this AMAZING maket, I had been meaning to go there but couldn't find it. Some pics; (I know dad, you would LOVE this place)



We got some fresh juice, I'm not sure what mine was, but I could pick raspberry and coconut and it tasted so good.

Then we went to another bar to cook up some food!! First a bunch of stuff was laid out for us to make our own tapas, as well as a tortilla (like a quiche, thats actually a national dish!) as well as meats, cheese, olvies (which are weird here, theyre unsalted and REALLY bland?? Apparently they're like that all over Europe) and fried potatoes served with a spicy mayo. THIS is tapas I could love, I was actually full.



Next, the chef prepared a seafood Paella for us in this MASSIVE dish. The room we were in was so small, so when he started cooking, there was a slick of oil on EVERYTHING. Our cameras and my glasses, was pretty gross lol.

Oh, by the way, during this whole experiance, there was as much sangria as we could drink, I got pretty sloshed as you can imagine.

While the paella was cooking, we learned how to make sangria. That was cool. I will most definately be repeating that recipe.

Then the paella was ready!!! And we ate, mny god did we eat. Prawns, muscles, clams ad calimari... Awww so good.

Anyway, after the cooking experiance (which I clearly enjoyed) We went and wandered around for a bit and caught up with Nick, then Maria bought some alcohol, and we comtinued to drink on her balcony.

Then we wandered around, and tried to join in on a pub crawl. Didn't exactly work lol. Lol then I caught a taxi home.

Was a really cool day, I love food.... Lol

Things that made me happy today; Talking to my Paul, FOOD

Things that made me sad today; Realising how much of my weekly budget Ive already spoent :S

Day 17 - Spain

Sooo, this morning I got up bright and early and caught the full bus to Barcelona, or as dad would say Barthelona.

The bus ride was pretty so-so as usual, nothing special there.

Once we arrived in Barcelona, our guide tried to take us to the drop off hostel, and got us lost. Was kind of ironic really. I wasn't staying there, so Nick and I made our way to my hostel, which is an awesome place, roomy with lockers. Unfortunately Nick hadn't booked a room, but the lady offered him the couch for 15 Euro lol.

After settling in (bottom bunk, yay!), Nick, myself and an American girl called Camilla walked down the main party street La Rambla, and went to meet up with everyone else (Mel, Maria and Maxine) to go to dinner. We walked around the Gothic quarter for AGES before settling down somewhere and getting some Tapas and Sangria.

(La Rambla, there were all these guys with annoying sound makers in their mouth that made them sound like a duck? Very noisy)

I have to say, I paid 10 euro for a bunch of Tapas. I didn't get even CLOSE to full, and It wasn't even that tasty...I'm convinced it was the place we went to though.... The Sangria was AMAZING though. Soooooo good.

We then wandered around for AGES just looking for something to do, we all dwindled off one by one, Until it was just Nick, Maria, Mel and I.

Maria had some absinthe, so we mixed it with apple juice and drank on the 'beach' which took us about an hour to find. No one would listen to my directions... lol.

I had a waffle covered in caramel. Sound's amazing right?? was about a 3/10.... Too dry?? needed ice cream lol.

Anyway, overall good day.

Things that mad me happy today; Sangria, Barcelona's buildings, good company.

Things that made me sad today; The disappointing food so far,sSeeing so many things that remind me of Paul;

Day 16 - The rich and famous

So today was a pretty cool day, firstly in the morning I ran around trying to find my last few souvenirs, I have the BEST story for Paul's souvenir, but I can't tell it here hehe.

After that rush, I JUST made it to the bus to go to the boat/booze cruise to Saint Tropez. It was a 2 hour bus drive to our first stop at Port Como. It's a cool little town right on the beach (which I also visited) that resembles a more spread out version of Venice. Pretty cool.

Then we made our way and boarded the boat to Saint Tropez, the booze was kind of crap, so I didn't really drink any lol. I also took motion sickness tablets, but it was SOOOOOOOO rough I was close to being sick anyway, but luckily I didn't.

The tour guide was pretty funny, he just told us heaps of stories and showed us the homes of the rich and famous. Kind of a gossip cruise really. but was still fun.

Then we had a couple of hours in Saint Tropez, so Rachel, Nick and I (two people who I met through busabout) hung out, had a wander around, and had some food.

We had these rolls, with like hamburgers in them and any kind of fillings, but they put chips in the roll?? It's really weird, but REALLY good.

I also had a proper Nutella crepe (national dish check)

We didn't get back to the hostel until like... nearly 12am. But all in all a good day.

Things that made me happy today; Nutella crepes, not getting sunburned.

Things that made sad today; Not owning one of the hundreds of massive yachts and houses I saw...

Day 15 - FOOD

So today again was a little shaky. I went shopping at H&M.... I tried on SOOOO many things but I didn't really like anything, walked out with two things... Oh well

Then I SKYPE'd with mum, dad and Paul.... That sucked, I just instantly started crying... I miss home a lot.

But I did man up and go out. I got dressed and walked into old town here. Lots of little shops, and flower stalls. I ate some amazing food! I had a seafood salad, with bread, and a macaroon.

Then I had a desert, vanilla icecream, raspberrys and cream (got a pic of this one :)

THEN I had some delicious little French pastries. So yummy.

After all of the eating, I went to chill at the hostel with all the crew I had met. And then we all went out to dinner. So everything here is Itilian food?? Weird, but we are pretty much on the boarder.

Had some wine, then some beers on the beach. met ANOTHER girl from Frankston... Could not believe it!!

All in all, a pretty cool day.

Things that made me happy today; EPIC deserts

Things that made me sad; Missing home :(

Day 14 - Two weeks mark.

So, today marks my two weeks away from home...

I successfully caught the bus to Nice today. But I woke up this morning feeling really sick like with the flu, so I did sleep most of the bus ride, but from what I saw it was BEAUTIFUL. And I still got lots of good pictures.

We drove through 4 countries today, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco and France. So weird how you can do that here in a few hours???

After we all checked into my hostel (heaps of people I met in Switzerland have come here also) we all went and got dinner, then got some vodka and slushies and sat on the beach... Pebble beach... Ow!!! The water is really nice, but the pebbles are as bad as I expected.

I realised today I came TOTALLY ill prepared for weather THIS hot. There is a H&M close though, so I'm going to go have a quick look there and see if I can find some more summer appropriate clothing today.

I've gone over my budget this week :, but I didn't even reach it last week, so i think I will be ok. I've also had to pay two lots of accommodation in this budget week. So I think everything will work out ok.

Things that made me sad today; Waking up feeling so sick.

Things that made me happy today; Feeling much better by the afternoon?!?!

Love you all! xoxo

Day 13 - Mates

So, last day in the lovely Lauterbrunnen Switzerland!

I will miss this place, but I also feel like I accomplished a lot here, I saw a lot, and I made a heap of friends.

We were going to hire some bikes today and go riding around town, but that fell through because everyone was too hungover lol. So we just got some wine and had a few drinks instead LOL.

Forgot this! We went to dinner and had cheese fondue and rosti, two national dishes of Switzerland. Was VERY good!!!

We ended up playing a game of Kings, VERY funny. Everyone was pretty drunk. And the rules were just all over the place. Just how it should be. We again went to the bombshelter, but the people were boring compared to the night before. So we left lol.

So Ive discovered, that I wont be able to blog everyday because on the bus (which is every few days) I don't have wi-fi, so I cant update for the day before. But I will update everyday, just eventually. Sorry about that, and also sorry about the lack of photos, they're getting very difficult to upload.

Anyway, my last day in Lauterbrunnen was very cruisy spent with some cool people.

I love and miss you all.

Day 12 - Living in a postcard

So today, all the girls on the Bussabout got up and went to see the Trummelbach waterfalls. They were VERY cool, but it was a pretty decent hike for me (fattie grunt) but I did it, and feel good about it. I took lots of photos, but they’re getting hard and time consuming to upload… You will all see them when I get back anyway.

We were lucky with the weather, they said it was going to storm wall weekend, but it’s been amazing!

Switzerland is SOOOOOOOOO, I feel like I’m in a postcard! Everything is so picturesque. I took so many freaking photos! You will all see them, I might even just do like one blog update of photos.

Later that day we walked into town and got some cheap-ish booze, and had a small creek party that night. Why a creek party you ask? Well it was the only way we could figure out to get the booze cold LOL. We shoved it behind some rocks in the creek, the water here is so fresh and cold, it worked perfectly, and we only lost ONE bottle of vodka with like two shots left. Successful I’d say. There turned out to be like 30 people hanging out there with us. We are the party.

Later we went and got much more drunk at the bombshelter again, but it was less interesting without the naked 18 year olds lol.

This was also a good day. I like this place a LOT more than Paris…

Things that made me happy; the beauty of Switzerland

Things that made me sad; Getting mildly sunburnt, and the price of food L