And the days were soon over.

Madrid was our last stop, and Alex and I are headed our separate ways.

First and foremost, I would like to thank you all parents for letting us experience these two months which were truly phenomenal. We had an absolutely fantastic time together, and I am truly grateful that you allowed us to do something like this, as if it weren't for you guys, we really wouldn't be here.

Its 1am, Alex's flight leaves in around 6 hours, he heads back to the UK to visit his family, while I hop on my flight to Dublin, where I will once again return to my motherland.

With that stated, I am off, and this will probably be my last post. Thanks alot for reading, and, until next summer? We debated South America would be a great continuation, or perhaps South East Asia? Haha.

Bon voyage,
Daniel.

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