Let's Go Europe 2019. Harvard Student Agencies

her when she drop-kicked a box of macaroons off the Eiffel Tower, injuring three. For the rest of the summer, she recovered by playing chess with nice Flemish people. She ate frites. She took a silly yet endearing picture intentionally missing the point of the Louvre pyramid with her finger. She is now fully rehabilitated.

       Austin Eder

      A junior at a small liberal arts college just outside of Boston, Austin spent her summer city-hopping in Spain. An avid reader and a lover of the performing arts, she felt right at home on the cobblestone streets of Granada’s Albaicín. Here, the scents of tanned leather and cured meats mingle in the air, and the sounds of guitar and castanets reverberate through rickety wooden doors and crumbling mud walls. When not reviewing museums, restaurants, bars, and the like, Austin spends her time discussing domestic and international affairs at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and doing freelance copywriting and marketing work for real estate, tech, and law firms based in Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago, respectively. In her free time, she enjoys jamming to indie rock, studying art and literature, Wikipedia deep-diving, contemplating life’s larger questions, and exploring the greater Boston area on foot.

       Lucy Golub

      Navigationally challenged to a fault, Lucy has no idea what she’s doing. But she’s an expert at faking-it-til-you-make-it. Follow along as she discovers hidden gems and alleys throughout Great Britain and Ireland, often truly by accident. Yet these accidents help her befriend locals in a desperate attempt to get back on a familiar street. Getting lost (sometimes on purpose) results in discovering hole-in-the-wall restaurants and colorful murals off the beaten path. Other than being bad with directions, Lucy’s other talents include an ability to eat anyone under the table when cheese is involved (and probably get some mouth-watering pictures while doing it @OurLifeInFood.) In the classroom, she studies Social Studies, which means she’s got the being-social-in-a-hostel thing down. Or that’s what she keeps telling herself as she struggles to understand Irish accents. A New York City native, Lucy’s an expert on making the most of a city and exploring new neighborhoods. You can probably find her singing musical theater after checking out a local performance, breaking her third pair of sandals, or trying to convince Brits she meets at the pub that she doesn’t hate beer.

       Nick Grundlingh

      Nick Grundlingh is going to spend the summer traveling through Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. He’s looking forward to—Sorry, what was that? What’s Nick wearing? That’s his fanny pack. Anyway, Nick is looking forward to meeting—Look, Nick really doesn’t see what’s so funny about it, unless you think keeping your valuables safe is some sort of joke. Now, where was he? Oh yeah. Nick can’t wait to meet new people and—Seriously, guys. Knock it off. You know, in Europe, people make fun of you if you don’t wear one. At least Nick assumes they do. He hasn’t actually been yet. But it’s probably very similar to how he just described it.

       Kristine Guillaume

      Kristine traded her editor’s desk at Let’s Go HQ for an even more unglamorous life: a pack stuffed to the brim with extra underwear, much-needed shower shoes for grimy hostel bathrooms, and ridiculously rationed quantities of body lotion and hair product to tame the frizz (her efforts, however valiant, proved unsuccessful). Once packed, she took her set of extra fine pens and trusty Moleskine to the south of France, where she sampled bouchons in Lyon, strolled along le promenade in Nice, and swirled countless glasses of wine in Bordeaux. When Kristine isn’t consuming ungodly amounts of beurre, pain, et vin, she enjoys writing for the News Board of The Harvard Crimson, drinking English Breakfast tea, and indulging her terrifyingly intense addiction to television.

       Adrian Horton

      Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Adrian will be honing her bakery-finding skills in Greece and southern Italy this summer. Prior work experience: ranch-hand, gardener, fruit bat cage cleaner, one-time contributor to her hometown’s Wikipedia page. Her current interests include distance running, 90s music, and convincing people she has seen Game of Thrones Seasons 1-5 (she hasn’t, but oh my god wasn’t the Red Wedding in Season 3 BANANAS?!). When she isn’t watching movie trailers on YouTube, she studies History and Literature at Harvard and sometimes writes about pop culture.

       Alejandro Lampell

      Continuing with a desire to explore new places that stems from his time living in six different countries, Alejandro has set off on a new adventure in France and Switzerland, in which he will try to discover how much solitude he can handle while carrying all the clothes he needs for eight weeks in one hiking backpack. Not one to shy away from a challenge, Alejandro will explore the mountains of Switzerland and the beaches of Southern France, and indulge in the exquisite cuisine both countries have to offer. While not daydreaming about studying abroad, Alejandro likes to spend his time trying to learn to play the guitar or in the library, nestled between towers of books.

       Gavin Moulton

      In spite of a crippling Croatian supermarket crisis and the tragedy of a truffle hunting dog with an injured paw, Gavin was generally successful in covering Croatia from top to bottom - quite literally, he hiked to the summit of a mountain and went scuba diving. While he may have stayed in a hostel room of seven Canadian girls, another hostel room of five French girls, and another of four British girls, he somehow managed to stay focused on the important things: Dubrovnik’s best castrated rooster soup, gin-treehouse-bars in Zagreb, and award winning mausoleums in Cavtat. Did his trusty headlamp come in handy? You betcha! Did his blond hair lead to locals thinking he was Croatian? Da! Did he fall asleep on a beach and have to run four miles because he missed a bus? Yes, just don’t tell his mom who is under the impression that he only went to museums and other Croatian cultural sites.

       Antonia Washington

      Antonia is spending her summer pretending she knows a lot about wine and collecting tourist keychains she has no use for throughout Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Germany. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she spends much of her time schlepping through the wilderness and enjoys backpacking, kayaking, and low-pressure longboarding (because she’s just not good enough to brake efficiently so crowds make her nervous). Catch Antonia eating carbs, looking fly in white Crocs (Crocs is the most innovative company in the world), and pleading for her mom’s REI dividend.

       Joseph Winters

      Meet Joseph: junior, Earth and Planetary Science concentrator, vagrant vacationer. He spent eight weeks this summer in search of the Iberian Peninsula’s best veggie burger, but en route discovered a bunch of famous monuments, museums, and cultural landmarks—coincidentally, enough to cover a whole section of Let’s Go 2019! From petiscos in Porto to siestas in Salamanca, Joseph’s travels took him up the Portuguese coast and across northern Spain before depositing him in bustling Madrid. According to his Garmin, he walked just under one million steps while navigating from far-flung bullrings to slaughterhouses-turned-cultural centers. A trip so varied, the only real constant was the Nutella-and-toast breakfast combo at every hostel. When he’s not investigating tapas restaurants, Joseph enjoys distance running, playing piano, cooking, specialty coffee shops, and occasionally finishing a Thursday NYT crossword puzzle. He also writes for the Harvard Political Review and the Crimson, but the acme of his writing career was undoubtedly a blog post titled “What is Your Spirit Tapa?” His pet peeve is ambiguous museum signage.

      DISCOVER

      EUROPE

      So, you want to go to Europe? But how could

      you not? There’s something awfully romantic about spending midnight in Paris, watching the lights glisten on the famed La Seine. There’s something special about hearing the growls and grunts of cars on and around the vias and piazzas of Rome. There’s something magical about walking on the streets of London in front of Buckingham Palace as the roads close down for the iconic Changing