Friday, April 1, 2016

European Travels In April

Our winter road trip ended last week, and we're already about to leave on our next set of adventures to Europe. Here's what the next month will look like.

April 1 : Chicago, IL - We'll drive with our friend Pauley to Chicago where we'll meet up with our friend Tito who will drop the three of us off at O'Hare after grabbing a quick lunch. 

April 2 -10 : Madrid, Spain - We get to hang out with Pauley for the week. Katie and Pauley are running a 5k on Sunday, but the rest of the time we're going to wing it. We'll explore Madrid for sure and most likely do a few day trips to some other neighboring towns.

April 10 -14 : Vienna, Austria - This is more of an in-between stop for us. Pauley heads back to Grand Rapids on the 10th and we're not meeting up family until the 15th. So Katie and I get to adventure a few days on our own. We picked Vienna because it was cheaper for us to buy a multi-city flight on top of our Madrid flight than it was to go to Madrid alone. This saved us probably $300 a ticket. Crazy. We're hoping to check out a couple climbing gyms. 

April 15 - 18 : Munich, Germany - This is stop one of our whirlwind Germany tour with Katie's brother Tim, Katie's parents, and Katie's mom's cousin Pam. We have lots to see in little time. 

April 18 - 20 : Hamburg, Germany - We'll be with the same crew as before +1. Our friend Nate joins up with us for this leg of our Germany exploration.

April 20 - 24 : Berlin, Germany - The whole crew heads over to Berlin. One of the main highlights will be getting to see a true German football game: Bayern Munich vs Hertha BSC. Katie and I are also hoping to get a chance to meet up with a co-worker and friend of mine that works remotely from Berlin. 

April 24 - 26 : Ghent, Belgium - Katie's family either heads home or off on their own adventures. So Belgium will just be Nate, Katie, and myself. Not sure exactly what we're in for. Nate has quite a few ideas a lot of which revolve around checking out various breweries.

April 26 - 28 : Brussels, Belgium - Same as Ghent, just a new city. 

April 28 - 29 : Copenhagen, Denmark / Malmö, Sweden - We chose a cheap flight out of Copenhagen to head home, so we're just heading to that area the day before our flight out. That way we'll have better options for getting to the airport at a reasonable time. We're staying over in Sweden because it was actually both cheaper and faster to get to from the airport than staying in Copenhagen. Hopefully we'll have some time to explore the city a bit. We fly out with Nate on the 29th to head back to the US. 

April 30 - May 1 : Washington DC - Nate continues on back home, but Katie and I get to spend the weekend with our friends Faber (Jon) and Erica in DC before heading the rest of the way home.  

May 2 : Return to Grand Rapids, MI - We're home! 

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