We had a fantastic time celebrating our third wedding anniversary in Espana! Thank you to everyone who provided suggestions and input for our trip, it was very helpful.
We left Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday around noon and arrived in Barcelona, Spain around 8:30am local time on Sunday (2:30am Jax time). We started the day as if we'd gotten a full nights sleep and had one extremely long day! We were definitely exausted by the end of it, but I think that's the best way to combat jet lag when you're only visiting somewhere for a short time.
I'll blog about each city separately, but overall we had a great time. We ended up visiting four cities in eight short days -- Barcelona, Seville, Granada and Madrid. If we had it to do over again, I think we would have stuck to two cities. While we had a fantastic time, we were worn out by the time we made it to Madrid, our last stop. I think we could have actually spent a full week in Barcelona -- that was our favorite city. It would have been even better if it were a little warmer and we could have enjoyed the beach a bit.
We booked our trip through EuropeanDestinations.com and found it to be an excellent website. We actually stumbled on the website looking for a potential trip to South America on LatinDestinations.com. We were able to find a pretty reasonable deal and it made the planning very easy. It gives the option to book your travel for the trip (to the country and within the country), lodging and even activities while you're there. We used it for booking our hotels and travel within the country and we didn't have any problems once we arrived. (We were able to find a better flight to and from Spain by booking directly through U.S. Airways.) I don't love U.S. Airways by the way -- while they do feed you a meal on the long flight to and from Europe, they don't give you any snacks! Of course there are some you can purchase, but you would think the $700+ we spent on each ticket would entitle us to at least one free snack for the 8+ hour trip! Sorry, just a quick rant on U.S. Airways ... I'm used to flying Southwest and Jet Blue who are great about keeping you fed!
Here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip:
Parc Guell in Barcelona
Alcazar Palace in Seville
Alhambra in Granada
Beautiful tulips in Madrid
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