is frickin awesome!!

did most of the touristy things already. there was a canada day celebration going on at trafalgar square and we had poutine and everything! beckett came to meet me from cambridge and we had lunch - it was a great catching up opportunity!

more later. stayed tuned.

xo

omg it's freezing in santiago!! i didn't really bring warm clothes and its like 15 degrees here! i only have one sweater and linen pants ( Read more... )

i'm in santiago!!! FINALLY fuck my flight got delayed by one hr. so instead of landing at 11:45pm i got in at 12:45pm. i spent 20 euros on a cab to the hostel and i almost died handing it over to the cabby. but at least i managed to take the subway to the madrid airport and only spent 2 euros, and my hostel is 18 euros a night so you win some, you ( Read more... )

the girls left for their flight to ibiza tonight. i went out to finish off some night photography, and then went back to the hotel and had a bubble bath = pure bliss. baths make my life ( Read more... )

we got into madrid yesterday evening. after a MISSION of a subway ride dragging our luggage up and down multiple flights of stairs (apparently madrid doesn't believe in accessibility), we finally made it to our PIMP of a hotel. it's a suite style hotel with 20-ft ceilings, space-age looking lighting, a spiral staircase, and a SICK main bathroom ( Read more... )

valencia is sooo cute! if i could compare barcelona and valencia, i would say that it's similar to my experience in vietnam. barcelona is hanoi, and valencia is hoi an. valencia is much smaller and its sights are more compact. but it's VERY historic and i love the baroque style of the architecture. the girls wanted to hit up the beach again today, ( Read more... )

so tonight is our last night in barcelona. the beach yday was nice...but by the end of 3 hrs it was driving me crazy. i couldn't deal with knowing that we were in barcelona and NOT seeing historical old buildings. we went back to this restaurant that we found on the second night and i had this DELICIOUS lamb rib entree with mashed potatoes for only ( Read more... )

barcelona is beautiful. it does live up to all its hype. but i kind of see it as just another city with beautiful architecture, whereas in countries like cambodia, you're thrown into a whole different world that can't even seem to exist in the 21st century. so far, this trip has been more of a "vacation" than anything. not that i'm complaining of ( Read more... )

we're in barcelona safe and sound. it took us FOREVER to find our apartment...mostly because streets aren't labeled anywhere else except for on the side of buildings ( Read more... )

...to remember that i had a really fucked up dream. basically i've had insomnia for the past 4 days ish. and i decided that enough was enough to i turned to my really shady korean sleeping pills that i had purchased for the purpose of my trans-pacific flight back to TO.

not sure if fucked up dreams are a side-effect of sleeping pills. anyway i ( Read more... )