To do's:

Cause I am a massive planner/ listmaker, over the past few months I've holed up in Barnes and Nobles and used their travel section for free (yes, I am a freeloader too haha). So I've come up with a general idea of what I would like to see in a few of the countries.

Spain: 

• La Sagrada Familia: unfinished cathedral

• Las Ramblas: a market strip that is apparently stellar at night
• Montserrat: a cool monastery
• Flamenco shows
• Wine tasting
• Barceloneta: Barcelona's fishing town that most tourists don't visit
• Bullfighting: I don't think it's in season, but I would totally wanna go even though I would most likely bawl throughout the entire thing
• A soccer game

Italy:

• Mt. Vesuvius: I'm hiking this with my geology class!
• Naples pizza!
• Pompeii (obviously)
• Normal Rome highlights: Vatican, The Coliseum, Forum, Catacombs, ect.

• Explore cities outside of Rome
• I'm taking a cooking class in a village! So excited.
• I would like to hike Cinque Terre, which is a 5 village seaside hike in northern Italy, but I may not have time :(

Croatia:

• A day trip with my Anthropology class to Medugorje in Montenegro.
• Hike the lakes and waterfalls of Plitvice

• Explore Dubrovnik
• Korcula

Bulgaria:

Since this one is the most recent change to our schedule (Egypt...), I haven't had much time to research it. I have signed up for a Bulgarian Village visit, but that is it. I heard REAL gypsies are there, so maybe visit a few of those? We shall see.

Greece:

• Mykonos: plane and hotel are booked with people I have only met on facebook! YUSSS

• Athens: the norm (Acropolis, Hadrian's Arch, Hephaistion, Kerameikos cemetery, Tower of the Winds, ect)
• Meteora: I would like, but I don't believe there will be time.
• Olympia: same as above :(
• WATCH HARRY POTTER! (with greek subtitles)

Turkey:

• Ephesus (roman ruins)/ Cappadocia (houses carved from natural rock formations): tour is booked with, again, people I have never met. Sweet.

• Grand Bazaar: huge market in Istanbul
• Hamams: a Turkish bath where they scrub you and make you feel amazing. So excited.
• See a dervish whirl performance
• Olympos: jungle-y ruins next to a beautiful beach (no tourists)

• Mt. Nemrut: carved heads of old kings that are thousands of years old. But, it is on the complete opposite side of the country (next to Iraq and Iran and such!) so I won't be going :(
• Eat kokorec: street food of lamb intestines on a sandwich, yummm.
• Blue Mosque

• Hippodrome
• Lycean rock tombs

• Hookah

Morocco:

Nothing is planned officially, since hopefully I will have friends to hang out with at this point. But a few ideas...

• Stay in Marrakesh a few days. They have better markets than Istanbul and are cheaper too!

• Visit a few mosques
• Ride a camel?
• Travel to Fes
• See a snake charmer

• Get a tattoo? Haha mother.
• Hang out, relax, and enjoy the culture

Now, besides the ones I have paid for or put a deposit down, all my ideas will change. I won't see everything on this list and will see things I don't have on it. My goal is to be flexible and go with the flow; I don't want to be rushing, rushing, rushing everywhere when I am in these countries. I want to see more than the inside of a train for 4 hours in order to see 1 hour worth of country. No thanks. I would rather be immersed in a culture at the same city and see a few historic things than spend my time surrounded by other tourists pushing and shoving to get that perfect shot of some old rock and traveling 24/7. I like old stuff, but when I have only 4-7 days in each country, I would rather see culture than ancient stuff that will still be there in another 20 years.