Our Minds in Distant Lands

We have less than a month to plan for our full month long spring holiday trips. Everyone is feeling the pressure to start buying plane flights and train tickets, whilst booking hostels. I've done neither yet, but have got a pretty solid plan, though it's very liable to change. Anyone have any suggestions or places they loved near these areas, please email me. beckbr01@luther.edu I want to make the most of this final trip!
March:
IRELAND:
26th- Fly into Shannon to Galway
27th- Day in Galway with Molly
28th- Day trip outside Galway, Night with Molly
29th- Travel to Dublin
30th- Day in Dublin, Guinness Factory
31st- Fly out of Dublin to southern france

April:
FRANCE:
1st- Day in French Village
2nd- Travel to Nice
3rd- Day in Nice
4th- Day trip out of Nice
ITALY:
5th- Travel to …………………….
6th- Day in ………………………..
7th- Travel to Florence
8th- Day in Florence
9th- Day trip out of Florence, Pratolino village, travel to cinque terre
10th- Meet Malta Gang, and start two day travels of Cinque Terre
11th- Day in Cinque Terre
12th- Train to Pisa, Flight out to Malta @ 15:30
13th- 16th- Malta, Chillin with my Pals
17th- Hiking around a mountain, Mt. Etna
18th- Adventureman
19th- Travel to Rome
20th- Day in Rome
21st- Flight back to London, Bus to Nottingham, Play Dress Rehearsal

To give her some credit, I can say for myself that that chair is very comfortable and the lighting in the libraryis perfectly dim for a drowsy environment, but she should be reading....tsk tsk tsk. We all are barrelling our way through Barchester Towers in just over a week, but as you can see it can be a bit much at times. I can't say anything, she's been working hard and is some 150 pages ahead of me. I just needed to put this pic up.

I am a temporary member of the Nottingham University's Varsity Volleyball team. I played a few weeks ago against Nottingham Trent University. Good experience but scary as hell and still a bit out of my league. I played Middle, a position I have never played before, and was basically taking a crash course in the position while in the game. Did all right, had a 7 serve streak going. Anyway, I just wanted a picture of our "Kit" before I gave it back for memories sake. Like the color. Yeah, the shorts are pretty dang short and not all that flattering on me, but it's all about the game, not your looks right!
The colorful spring-like bouquet of flowers that I gave Mary for V-day have officially died off and look nothing like this anymore. Nature is providing many more here in England. Daffodils are sprouting out of the lawn all over campus in the randomest of places. Spring feels like it has arrived, though winter never seemed to have come but two nights with a bit of snow.