I’m going to be doing a few travel adventure posts in the upcoming days…travel is such a big desire of mine so I wanted to be sure to include some posts of my favorite trips starting with my first trip to Europe! Yay!
My first international trip was a few years prior to this and I wrote about my adventures in Guatemala in post 19 to 40.
In 1998, I left San Francisco to take a 5 week course in Barcelona, Spain. I was going to get my TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language) certificate with the intention of being able to travel around the world teaching English. Yay!
Here are some pictures of the school I attended, the view outside my hotel room balcony and me with my certificate after completing the course!
Barcelona was an amazing city. Here are pictures of Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia and the famous La Rambla street:
I had my first Europe trip planned and my cousin was to join me in Germany after the course and then we would travel around by train!
Yay! I had been dreaming about this for years…
Before I met up with my cousin, I went to Prague with my Hungarian friend that I knew from my San Diego nanny days!
From here I visited another friend in Germany. We went to the Dachau Concentration Camp which was a very somber experience and one that I felt I could not miss while there.
I also saw castles and some AMAZING scenery in Germany:
…and I LOVE Italy! My first trip to Europe included a whirlwind tour of Venice, Rome and Florence – then on to Paris!
I had also made several great friends from England during my days as a nanny in San Diego, so we then headed to England before going back to the states.
It was an amazing tip and adventure. You can bet that I would be anxious to return to Europe!
I did not actually do any teaching after my experience in Barcelona. Not for lack of wanting to…just different things that happened after I returned home.
I would end up back in San Francisco for a period of time…always planning that next trip!
And there would be more! Stay tuned!
