Barcelona, hemos llegado!

We arrived at Barcelona after of what seemed like decades of waiting in a city in Italy, next to Pisa, which was completely empty. We waited for 5-6 hours to get on the ferry, which was another 20 hours, but we have arrived. We are staying in an apartment with Charlotte and Aviva, and given that it is four of us, it is coming out to be around 30 euros a night, which is the same as the hostal.

We are moving out on Friday, given that the girls are leaving, and we will check in to Rambla Gothic Quarters then. As for Barcelona, it is beautiful, we went to a Tapas restaurant which was absolutely fantastic (thanks to Aviva), and it is really great to go around with someone who has been here for five weeks (Aviva), given that she knows where to eat, and so forth. We also had the pleasure of eating at 4 Cats (Los Cuatro Gatos), where Picasso had eaten before, it was absolutely fantastic.

Saludos, finalmente podemos hablar nuestra lengua natal :),

daniel.

Oh Florence...

After days in Rome, doing as the Romans, we took a train straight after checking out of our hostal in Rome, and we headed towards Florence. We will be here until Monday, July 27, 2009, where we head towards Livorno, to take our 20-hour ferry towards Barcelona. A truly long ride, which we will endure as flights were coming out a little too expensive, and the ferry provides a room, which will give us a good time to rest, before our last country.

Amazingly, we have travelled to the following countries:
1. Ireland
2. United Kingdom
3. France
4. Belgium
5. Netherlands
6. Germany
7. Czech Republic
8. Greece
9. Italy
10. Vatican City
11. ...

Our eleventh country will be Spain, a truly remarkable journey, we can only hope it continues to go as well as it has been so far. I leave you now, for the beauties of Florence.

Daniel

Rome-ing the city.

Hahaha, yes Pompei was absolutely spectacular, I will get to posting pictures but the Internet Cafe's we have been at aren't the greatest.

Anyways, yes, I was, like any common Panamanian, up until 5am, using the Hostel's computer and working some of my technological magic, watching the entire soccer game. Very very painful defeat at extra time, with that penalty. I must say I was devastated with that loss, but moving to Rome has been fabulous.

Here, we have been to the Collesseum, the Pantheon, various Piazza's, and in our plans are the Vatican tommorow, and the Capuchini Bone Chapel.

Rome is much better, We are truly enjoying this.

Daniel

Change of Plans...

We are changing our plans, and instead of staying in Naples, we are moving to Rome tommorow night. We visited the Plaza's today, because we arrived a day early because of the ferry bookings, and therefore are staying in Napoli, today July 18th.

Anyways, tommorow we will go to Pompei, and Mount Vesuvius, and then we take a train at night to a hotel in Rome which we have already reserved.

The motive for this is, spoken simply, if you have been to Calidonia in Panama, this place is worse. We are constantly warned by the hostel of being robbed and the likes, so we are essentially just going to Rome, where there is alot more to see, and it seems like a much better place.

Cheers from Naples, a not so happy place haha,

Daniel

Sadly, we're down to two.

Sadly, Daniel Correa has had to leave us, so now it is Alex and I.

We are in Poros, in the house of our friend from school, Maria. She has been kind enough to house us for the next few days, and we have certainly enjoyed of her yacht, which includes water skiing and waveboarding. We are certainly having a blast over here with her family, and we are very thankful that she has taken us in.

And Monica, thank you for writing, I always look forward to a comment or two from the parents, its always nice to hear from you guys. I last talked to William when he was in front of the Santiago Bernabeu, the stadium for the greatest soccer team in the world, Real Madrid, so I am certain that he is honored to be in the presence of pure beauty. (haha). But yes I am glad he is alright,

Philippe also arrived fine to Panama, and we will be travelling on the 17th of July to Patra, where we take the ship to Bari.

Cheers from the beautiful sunsets of Greece,
Daniel C.

Mykonos

We're in Mykonos, and have been to some absolutely fantastic beaches!

We will probably head to Santorini on the 14th for one night, and then to Athens.

Cheers,
Daniel

The Greek Islands

This is what we are doing in the Greek islands:

Tomorrow, Friday July 10th, we will leave in a ferry to Mykonos, and we will settle there. We thought about making Crete our base since we found a cheap hotel but the ferries would cost us too much to go around the islands.

Therefore, we will stay in Mykonos until July 14th, and then after that, we will take a ferry to Santorini. In Santorini we will stay one night, and then July 15th we will head to Athens. We leave Athens on a Ferry to Italy on July 17th, a day early from what our original plan was, due to the lack of availability in the ferry on July 18th.

That's all,

Greece is absolutely fantastic!
Daniel

And then there were three.

I have already talked to both William and Philippe. Last time I talked to William he was in the train station, and Philippe is already in the Amsterdam Airport. Philippe arrives to Panama at 4-5pm. He leaves Schipol Airport (Amsterdam) at 1:25pm, his flight number is KL0757.

We arrived at Crete, and it seems to be a promising city, the prices seem to be rather cheap, and we are back to using Euros. (Prague used Krones or smtn)

Alex and Correa are taking a small nap and I will probably head over to do the same, but we are doing fine, we have found a good place to stay, here are the details:

It is called Castello City Hotel, we get a 3 bedroom room, and a bathroom, for 80 euros a night (approximately 27.30 Euros each), which was around the same if not cheaper than a hostal cost, and its a good place to rest.
http://www.castellohotels.com/

We are still unsure of how we will travel around the islands, but that we will figure out as we venture into Crete.

Until later,
qk

A group photo.

Max left this morning, and we took a group picture after a very nice dinner with him.

We're going to miss him, but our voyage continues, soon we head to Greece. (Crete)

Cheers,
qk.

Prague is awesome!

Max is headed out at 9:30am back to the United States (To the DC)

Were having dinner tonight for him, :).

Well im off, hes hungry hahaha.

qk

Off to Prague.

At 10:35am local time we leave for Prague :D, we get there around 3:18pm.

Berlin was a whole lot of fun. Our best hostel so far, I really enjoyed it.

cheers,
daniel.

Berlin.

Our hostal is absolutely fabulous, and we are all well in Berlin. I love it.

We have our own bathroom, and this city, you will be glad to hear, is incredibly cheap.

We went to the Holocaust Memorial and to the Museum of National History, it was incredibly interesting.

Cheers.