Our trip down to Paris and then Barcelona was thrown for a loop when the concert ran an hour late, so we just crashed at Mac’s apartment after a delicious late night Lebanese snack. We awoke at 6:00am for a journey to Paris and beyond. In perfect fashion, we had to adjust our schedule and hopped a train to Irun (in close proximity to San Sebastian) where we would eventually make it to Barcelona at 22:00. San Sebastian was the perfect pit stop after 24 hours of travelling. We walked straight to the beach, threw on some trunks and finally took in some sun after dreary weather in both Dublin and London. Chase rented a surfboard and shredded some waves for an hour, cruising some beautiful, rolling waves. Spaniards are surely not afraid to show a little more skin but this made the six hours more interesting. For a “small fishing town,” San Sebastian impressed us as a beautiful city with friendly beaches on the Bay of Biscay.
(Statue of Christ in San Sebastian)
We boarded our train to Barcelona and would be meeting an unexpected but integral member of the trip, Hugh Jessiman. The ’06 Dartmouth graduate invited us into his decent hotel, The W, for the night. Arriving so late, we grabbed a beer at the rooftop bar and went out to Opium to meet another Dartmouth friend, TJ Cameron who was celebrating his last night on another small euro trip. Luckily, the people of Spain live a crazy lifestyle, eating dinner quite late, and going out closer to midnight. Chase also ran into friends from the University of Arizona, Dennis Smith, Harry Tully, and JT Sand, which
would make the Barcelona visit even more exciting. With Jessiman constantly looking to “wheel,” we met girls from Rome, Nice, Stockholm, Lithuania, Amsterdam and plenty of Americans from the Semester at Sea program.
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