Proxima estacion: Catalunya.

Soooo I did it. Bought my plane tickets. I am leaving Denver on August 17, will fly non-stop to London and then hop on a connecting flight to Barcelona. Seven weeks later on October 5, I will do the same thing in reverse. I am ridiculously excited, ridiculously nervous and....ridiculously excited. I have no idea what I'm going to do there. I want to go to around 12ish places so I figure I can stay about 3 or 4 days in each place, though I'm keeping things open so I'll stay longer in places I really love, less in places I feel less attracted to.

I am going to go to some of the "big" locations, like Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, Grenada, etc (as well as starting and ending in Barcelona.) But I also really want to go to several places that I have no idea about. I really want to go to Extremadura, east of Portugal, which apparently is "more rural" than most other places, but other than that I have no idea what's there. But I plan on finding out! Right now I am sort of planning on doing a clockwise jaunt through Spain, starting in Barcelona, going south to Valencia and then west through Andalusia, then north and over etc.

Both my dad and my sister immediately asked me "where else" am I going, as if going to Spain wasn't enough. My dad mentioned Greece and the UK, my sister mentioned Italy and France. Maybe! I might keep an eye on Ryanair.com and see if they have any insane deals, since sometimes their flights are cheaper than it would be to go elsewhere in Spain by rail. So I'm open to the possibility of going somewhere else for a bit, but this is still a "trip to Spain" so I don't want to get carried away. Plus I don't speak Greek, Italian or French, lol, and part of the reason I'm going to Spain, apart from it being amazing, is that I speak the language.

But yeah...I already have a little countdown going. 62 days!!! :D