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We thought this one was lost forever. But we just got the greatest email update on Notebook #30:

Hello world!

We are Isabel, Rafa and Oriol.

We are a Catalan family. We found the notebook the same day you left it under the Elephant in Paris. We decided to accept the challenge since we knew we would travel around. We were visiting Paris on a cultural trip with our 12 year old son who had never been out of Spain. We were hosted in Drancy at a family’s house. The son’s girlfriend is from Laos and she was the first to start commenting in French in the notebook.

From Paris we flew to Bilbao in the Basque Country. In Barakaldo, Isabel’s sister was so kind as to write a second comment in Euskera. Afterwards, the notebook traveled to La Rioja, a wineland in the north of Spain. Isabel’s niece, Marta, made her own contribution in Spanish.

Then, we arrived in Llinars, a village about 30 km from Barcelona. To continue with the plurilingual character of the notebook, now we will write on it in Catalan. Finally, Rafa’s brother, already in Barcelona City, will give this wonderful notebook the next push to be left it on its own again in La Sagrada Familia.

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Usually when we leave notebooks in random places, we either hear from someone right away or we never really hear anything about it. It was great feeling to know that this one was doing so much traveling while we thought it might just be lost somewhere. Just because we don’t hear from a notebook for a while does not mean that it is over. All of these notebooks are out there. They just need to fall into the right hands at the right time.

Hello world! The 99 Notebooks team is in Paris right now. We spent some time in Amsterdam and gave away a few notebooks while we were there. We might be a little wrong on the numbers, but we think this is how it all went down:

Notebook 26: Given to two guys from Canada at a train station in Brussels.

Notebook 28: Left in a bicycle basket on a city street in Amsterdam

Notebook 29: Given to our hostess in Amsterdam, Lieke, who was amazing! We had such a fun time at her apartment. Amsterdam is quite an amazing city and if anyone wants to go there and stay somewhere other than a crowded hotel or hostel, you should stay with Lieke and get a true Amsterdam experience. Email us and we will hook you up with her email address.

Notebook 30: Left next to the Elephant Statue in front of Musee d’Orsay in Paris. If you found this notebook in front of the museum, email us and let us know where you are from and what you were doing in Paris that day!

That’s it for now. We will probably give away one or two more notebooks in France and then a few more in the UK and Ireland.

Bon soiree!