Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Jena Parker, July 17-18, 2011

July 17th- Sunday was still part of our long weekend trips and the majority of us were doing lots of site seeing in Rome. The group I was with decided to head to a coastal town in Italy called Ostia. It only cost us 1 Euro and was about a 45 minutes train ride from Rome. I’ve seen beaches in the U.S. get crowded but never as packed as this beach was. People in Europe definitely don’t need as much personal space as people in the states. We eventually found a spot to put our towels and switched from lying in the sun to cooling off in the water. It truly felt like vacation and was a much needed day of relaxing.

July 18th- Ostia was only a 15 minute bus ride to the airport and our flight the next morning left at 7am so we decided to save some money and spend a night in the airport. My group got there around midnight and attempted to settle in. We all had a fun time despite the fact that we were trying to sleep on a cold hard floor with only backpacks as pillows. At 5am we all got up, checked in, went through security, and boarded our plane. By 9am we had landed back in Prague. Everyone was pretty tired from all the traveling and I’m pretty sure we all slept the rest of the day... at least that’s what I did.

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