1) Flamenco dance lessons
2) Spanish cooking class
3) Weekend trips to Barcelona, Segovia, Valencia...etc.
4) Go clubbing, go to bars, wine tasting
5) See a Bullfight
6) Visit museums, buildings, famous streets, galleries...
7) Go to the beach
8) Tapas
9) Go to Italy
10) Go to France
11) Become conversational in Spanish!
Itinerary w/ Estimates:
5/19 Flight to Madrid
5/20 Arrive in Madrid
Buy pay-as-you-go phone
5/21 Welcoming Ceremony/Paperwork
Language Placement Test
Information sessions
5/22 First day of classes
5/23 Paseo Historico info. session
5/24 Excursion to Segovia
5/25 Parque del Templo de Debod
5/26 Parque del Retiro
5/27 El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
5/28 El Palacia Real
5/30 El Museo Prado
5/31 Excurion to Valencia
6/1 Valencia
6/2 Valencia
6/3 Flamenco Class
6/7 Examen Parciales
6/8 Botanical Garden (el Jardin Botanico)
6/10 Cooking Class
6/16 Bullfight
6/17 Flamenco Class
6/24 Flamenco Class
6/25 Flamenco Performance
6/28 Examenes Finales
6/29 Salida del Alojamiento de IES (depart IES), Bus to BARCELONA (~30 EUR/person)
From here, we are traveling around western Europe.
Travel plan: Spain --> Italy --> Paris --> Spain --> U.S.
Here's our travel for July:
We booked almost all of our stays via airbnb--which I highly recommend because you can find even better prices than hostels! I will update with how each of our stays are, but so far we have Barcelona, Roma, Cinque Terre (Riomaggiore), and Nice stays booked (including travel). Now all we have left to book is our travel to Paris, our stay in Paris, and our last stay in Madrid.
Also something that we have to think about is where to leave our larger items in Madrid (since Ryan Air charges you for checked luggage and not a carry on). Yes--we will be living off a carry on for a month!
