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<\/a>On Saturday I finally got the chance to ride around Toulouse on a bike after my first failed attempt the week prior. It was really fun because I did \u00a0it with a group of friends and it we got to see how huge Toulouse actually is. It was a completely amazing experience! I loved the feeling of having the wind blow through my \u00a0yarn twists as I explored all the nooks and crannies of the city, and it was a completely liberating experience traveling on a set of wheels and not having to worry about paying for gas or parking. The bike ride through the city was more than I imagined it would be. There is a huge difference between seeing the city on foot and then seeing it on a bike. The image of the Mairie de Toulouse was completely enhanced and then the view of the Garonne River \u00a0was even more vivid as I rode across the Pont Neuf. This was not my first time riding a bike, but it was my first time I was actually traveling beyond the limits of my neighborhood at home. Even though I was not used to having to dodge several people on a bike and I literally almost ran someone over, I can say that it was a completely satisfying day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Looking back on that weekend, it was just completely satisfying! I got to see the city behind the bars of a bike and see some more of Europe on my own behind the windows of a passenger train. This one weekend is definitely going to be the\u00a0highlight of my summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So before I came on this trip, my\u00a0main goals were to live out my European Dream by riding though Toulouse on a bike and by taking a \u00a0train ride to some other city on my own. This past weekend I got to do \u00a0just that and it was completely satisfying! On Saturday I finally got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-maymester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0Then on Sunday I took a train with one of my friends to Collioure. This \u00a0was the first time in my life where I actually felt like an adult…\u00a0young \u00a0adult… well a kidult (I’m still a kid at heart). The fact that we actually \u00a0planned this day trip, made the train at 8 am<\/strong>, and then spent an incredible day on the Mediterranean Coast exploring castles and everything \u00a0was completely mind blowing. I never imagined that I would actually be doing something like this. I still can’t even believe that I was only 15 minutes from Spain (and I most definitely \u00a0WILL<\/strong> be telling people that I went to Spain because I basically did)! I tried as much as I could to hold onto every moment of it because it was such an unbelievable experience, and honestly if I did not take any pictures, I would not have believed that it happened. Everything was just so perfect! From the weather, to the food, to the semi-painful rock beach, I enjoyed every part of it.<\/p>\n