slynam.com » seville http://www.slynam.com go go gadget blog Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:18:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seville Trip – Getting There http://www.slynam.com/2009/10/06/seville-trip-getting-there/ http://www.slynam.com/2009/10/06/seville-trip-getting-there/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:41:33 +0000 slynam http://www.slynam.com/2010/01/02/seville-trip-getting-there/

Well… it’s about time I blogged about this!!

On September 21st, I traveled with 10 other Yale Heavyweight Crew Alums to Seville, Spain for the week to race.  We were invited by Real Círculo de Labradores to race them, another Spanish crew, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge in 3 x 1000 meters.  It was the 150th anniversary of their rowing club, which has trained several recent Olympians in rowing as well as kayaking:
I had a TOUGH time packing, and then of course… I overpacked.  We weren’t really sure if we were going to have to dress up whenever we went around town, so I packed just about every conceivable outfit I owned.  And then only wore a fraction of the clothes I brought… typical me.  Here’s how it went down:
The first task once I woke up was to get to Boston:
Then we flew. I hate flying, but this one was actually quite pleasant:
Stay tuned for more videos, pics, and stories!

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