Well it has been a long time since I’ve posted, and that isn’t the way I wanted to start off my blog, but hopefully I will be able to keep up with it better in the future. I do have a small excuse though, and it is that I have been traveling non-stop for about a month, most of which has been in Europe with limited internet access. Now let’s summarize my month of March so far.
Believe it or not, I was not out of the country playing an EPT event or anything, but I was doing something much better: visiting my lovely girlfriend in Seville, Spain (where she is studying abroad for the semester) and going on mini vacations with her to the Canary Islands and Ireland! For those of you who have never been to Europe, I highly recommend it. My Spanish is a lot weaker than my prime high school days, but Lauren knows quite a bit and was able to handle any conversations that were above my head (like all of them). Europe’s history is so much deeper than that of the United States and it was very interesting to witness that, but one of my favorite things was the food. In Spain, they have a style of cuisine known as tapas. These are essentially smaller portions of the main meals, which means you can order like three or four of them and basically experience three or four meals the restaurant has to offer! They also have paella, which is a rice based meal, and then you can add seafood, meat, or vegetables (we added all three) and it is extremely tasty. As for our side excursions, the Canary Islands was our first trip, but the one full day we had there was cloudy, so we didn’t get much sun, but Seville has been in the mid – 70’s and sunny all week so it has more than made up for it. Probably the highlight of my trip, besides spending time with my girlfriend, was going to Ireland during St. Patrick’s Day! Ireland may be my favorite place on Earth right now, even though the weather sucks. It was absolutely nuts on St. Patrick’s day with a huge parade that left the streets packed and turned the pubs into a large people sandwich. It would literally take ten or fifteen minutes to exit a pub because there was so little room to move. Also, for anyone that knows me, I love trying new beers, especially non-american ones, and Europe was perfect for that. European beer is so much smoother and full of taste when compared to the best American beers. If anyone else shares these views, I recommend having a Murphy’s Irish Red – just don’t be thrown off by it reddish tint!
All in all, this trip was great for expanding my view of the world. It’s just very interesting to compare the way other people live and do things to those in America. Even though I have been dying to play some poker, I feel it is a good thing to get away from it now and then to clear the head and hopefully get rid of some bad habits, so what better way to get away then to go to Europe. But I will be back in the States for 5 weeks so look for a big end of March and April from me, as I will be trying to play some high volume poker to try and get ready for the World Series!
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