I’m writing this post from Monaco, sitting outside on a patio that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, as seen here:

But, let’s start with Barcelona. We spent 3 days in the city, mainly just walking around and seeing what there was to see.

Nicole and I are taking a train back to Barcelona tomorrow to meet my friend Holly.

France! Southern France. I love it here.

It’s been good to see the family, and it will be sad to see them leave tomorrow….I don’t know if I will be seeing them before the holidays or not! :(

Most likely they’ll drop us off at the train station in Nice, and we’ll buy a Eurail pass to get us around Europe for the next three months. Holly will be here starting Tuesday morning for three weeks, I’m so excited to see her! Our plans with her are pretty up in the air, but I know we’ll start in Barcelona and end in Athens. We’ll see, should be fun!!!!

Ireland…was a blur! It went by too quickly. We packed a lot in to one week. Terribly sick rain pubs guinness brewery fish n chips maps getting lost hours in the car bryan my crazy family green wedding photos party party party cliffs castles fun blur blur blur. I hope that sums it up.

Three months (at least) in Europe, we’ll be back Ireland!!

Well I’m writing this from our friend Bryan’s house in Ireland! We met him while traveling around New Zealand. I’ve been out of commission for the last few days…I think I managed to get pretty severely dehydrated and it kind of knocked me out. Starting to feel like I’m recovering today.

We spent one short week in Nepal! Nepal is definitely on my list of places that I could visit again and spend more time in. The people were nice, the scenery was beautiful, and there was plenty to do and see. We spent the first two days in Nagarkot, just east of Kathmandu, in the mountains. Then we went on a 3 day trek through the Kathmandu Valley, from Nagarkot to Chisapani and then back down to Kathmandu. Fortunately, our guide, Bik, was really cool. After the trek we spent two days in Thamel, an area in Kathmandu. I was surprised at how modern and nice most of the places were, especially compared to India. Lots of good restaurants and bars and shopping. I usually like getting away from the cities while traveling, but I definitely liked Thamel.

Sadly, this is the only view we ever got of the Himalayas, from the plane. It was too foggy the whole time we were there :(

Our hotel in the mountains.

Bik.

At the Monkey Temple. The monkeys were scary here.

Kathmandu

So, maybe we’ll get to stop back by in September or October when visibility is better…we keep stretching the trip out at this point, I don’t want to go home! I miss my family and friends a lot, but I can’t picture myself being back in one place anymore…

Tonight we’ll be headed to the south of Ireland with Bryan for his friend’s wedding, and in two days my family gets here, so excited!

Oh, and we slept at the airport in India the other night, between two potted plants.

It’s been a blur of a few days.