It begins
United States on August 29, 2008 at 1:17 amI planned far enough ahead for this trip to defer for a semester from school, but not far enough to buy a plane ticket months ago.
Just got confirmation email for my flight because I bought the ticket tonight.
I had it in my head before I looked at tickets that Madrid would be cool because I want to test out my Spanish a bit, but when I started looking it was where ever would be cheapest.
Dublin is actually cheapest to fly to, but I bought an Eurail Global Pass and it's not really any good on an island. It would only be good for a 15 hour boat ride to France. I thought it was a 15h Chunnel ride and I told some people that, but I misread the map I was looking at. Blue dashed line = boat.
But on this Dublin thread I found that Aer Lingus is about the only airline flying to Europe for reasonable prices. So to Madrid it is.
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MR DANIEL ANDERSON
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AER LINGUS
DEP BOSTON
TUE 9SEP08 6.30PM
ARR DUBLIN
WED 10SEP08 5.30AM
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AER LINGUS
DEP DUBLIN
WED 10SEP08 6.20AM
ARR MADRID
WED 10SEP08 9.55AM
The preparation for this trip is so half assed I'm loving it. All I got so far is a ticket to get there and an open ended train ticket to get around. No clue what I'm going to do on a day to day or where I'm going. I have a general route, but mostly it's going to be, "Shit, Bordeaux sounds cool." (proceed to approach train)
At least I think that's how it works. I hope I don't get thrown off a train because I didn't have a ticket, but I'm pretty positive I just show them my Eurail ticket like it was some season pass.
Aug 27th – Bought train ticket(next day shipped)
Aug 28th – Bought plane ticket/Received train ticket
Sept 9th – Leave
??? – Return