And the trip planning begins...

Last night, Sarah and I sat down in her dining room and decided we needed to start planning how to cross the pond into Europe. We both go to grad school together and were accepted for a month-long symposium on peace and conflict prevention, resolution and reconciliation. The best part- the symposium takes place in Bologna, Italy.

Since we're dedicating a full month to intensive paper-writing, seminar-attending and workshops, we decided, "why not travel before and after?!".

After a night of playing around with numerous airline websites and the oh-so-handy Wikipedia, we decided to be spontaneous and book our flights to Iceland, London and Bologna. Iceland?? Yes, Iceland. Odd, but we found a stopover in this beautiful nation to be cheaper than a direct flight to Italy.

So here we start our adventure, two flights to Europe...check!