Exams aren't too far away now, so I jumped at the opportunity when my friend Giselle invited me on a weekend away to Aragon to study. At 6pm on Friday afternoon, a minibus full of tennis racquets, food, suitcases and 7 girls set off, out of the neatly ordered grid system of Barcelona's Eixample and out onto the motorway. 3 hours later, having driven from the east to the west of Catalonia, we crossed the border into in Aragon and started driving up windy roads into the little town of Torreciudad to find the house we were going to stay in for the next couple of days.
The main reason we went was to study, and we definitely did study! On Saturday we got up at 8am for breakfast and then did 5 hours of study before lunch. In the afternoon we headed over to the "santuario de Torreciudad" and we went on a small walk to a small church on a cliff from where we enjoyed stunning views of the lakes and the pyrenees in the distance. The beautiful colours of the water below us, the blues and turquoises reminded me of pirates of the caribbean or of Peter Pan. I'm sure the water would have been cold, but the warm blue colours of the lake made me want to jump in.
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