Making Reservations...

We're less than a week away and the excitement is setting in as well as the anxiety from reading too many scam warnings in my travel book. I think we'll be fine though. Beth spent a semester in Bonn, traveling around Europe and my other European experiences in 2001 and 2002 were great. I even encountered real good samaritans in Madrid! I discovered this weekend that the Spanish trains require reservations made at least 24 hours in advance. After surfing the web for a while a great website let me make reservations for our train from Madrid to Paris and for Paris to London via the Chunnel. It's feeling very official now. The prospect of traveling for almost 48 hours isn't very appealing at all but we'll at least have a twin room hostel all to ourselves when we finally make it to London. No matter what the condition of the hostel is it will be nice to have a bed, sheets and a bathroom to wash off the cabin plane and train ride residue from our backpacker bodies!