Excitement is a natural stimulant, it kept me up for an extra hour and half of tossing and turning as a tried to lull myself to sleep. I was thinking of the exciting places I will be going, all the people I want to meet and how little time I am going to have to do it all. I was also thinking of how today I would slide a shiny piece of plastic over the counter to seal the deal with the travel agency and secure my place on a flight to London and a flight home from Madrid.



With ticket in hand, my biggest problem now is deciding where to go. It's a difficult choice because of limited time, so I nixed off countries that weren't convenient. My tentative list is England, (Ireland?), France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, (Monaco?) and Spain.