No, I'm not giving you a 12-day trip to Europe, but have you heard about the giveaway that Nomadic Matt is doing?
He’s handing out an amazing trip that includes airfare. What? Who does
that? Awesome people, that’s who.
The trip includes Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. All super
old cities with awesome old buildings, castles, and hopefully still have some
cobbled roads. I basically want this trip because every single photo I’ve seen
of each of these cities is awe-inspiring. And I’ve been dying to get to Europe. Plus, my birthday is later this month and wouldn't this be the BEST birthday present ever? I think so.
I want to go to Vienna so I can try Vienna sausage, Viennese
waltz, and sing while running through the Alps like Maria. Oh wait, that was
Salzburg, not Vienna. Are they close? No? Might have to take a little detour. My aunt visited Vienna and the photos were
ah-maze-ing. I want to see those gorgeous palaces and learn what I can about
the history of the city and its effect on music. I love classical music and
being in the City of Music would be indescribable. This is really the middle
city on the trip, but I thought I’d lead off with it because I’ve had the Sound
of Music soundtrack in my head since I started thinking about going to Austria.
Edelweiss and all that.
Prague is the reason that I don’t even care that the travel
time is in the winter. PRAGUE IN THE SNOW? YES, PLEASE! I’m not even a student
of architecture and holy beautiful buildings! I didn’t think much about Prague
until I saw some photos a couple of years ago. And the buildings, oh the
buildings. The rooftop views make me ache to see them for myself. Seriously-Google it. I’ll try to find some good sausage there, too. I love sausage-not those little links you get at iHop either. Hey, I’m Polish
(mmm kielbasa) and German (all the wursts!), what do you expect?
Budapest is the last stop (and departing city). I don’t
really know much about the city other than it’s on the Danube and it will
probably be too cold to swim in it. Plus I just googled Hungarian sausages and
they look delicious, so I’m sold. (What is with the sausages? This is what
starting a diet does to you! Or just me.)
One of the biggest reasons for entering this giveaway is
that I have a goal to travel solo. It’s been on my list for the last two years,
but I haven’t been able to accomplish it because of money and time constraints.
Plus, trying to survive alone in 3 countries where I don’t speak any of the
languages would be a hoot and a half (this is not sarcastic, I really think it’d
be fun and interesting). Eastern European languages are hard though, so we’ll
see how that goes. I do know that “prost” is “cheers” in German. All I need to
learn now is “bathroom” and I’ll be set.
Would this trip be
scary? For someone who’s only been out of the country once when I was 11-probably
a little bit terrifying. Is pepper spray included? You know, just in case?
Want to enter for yourself? All the instructions can be found here.