Summery Report:

Date: 16.6.08
Location: Nice, France
- I came to nice with a V.high expectations. Specially with all the talk about how sexy the ladies are. However, All I’ve seen so far is saggy boobs and a 1000Kg whale wearing a bikini! What a shame.

Date: 17.6.08
Location: Nice, France
- People in France loves to strike!
- It was so much fun watching France loose to Italy =)
- I got enough of France.. NEXT

P.S I made changes on my plans. I’m leaving to Cinque terre tomorrow.

Cheers

Summery Report:

Date: 9.6.08
Location: Granada, Spain
- It is my birthday =)
- Spent 5 fine hours at Al-Hambra and needed more.
- Very Very nice city

Date: 10.6.08
Location: Granada, Spain
- Sight seeing and some shopping

Date: 11.6.08
Location: Granada, Spain
- Played ping-pong and chilled
- Took the over-night train to Valencia, Spain

Date: 11.6.08
Location: Valencia, Spain
- Arrived at 5.00AM, it seemed like ghosts city
- Had a blast at the central market.
- Circled the city 3 times!

Date: 12.6.08
Location: Valencia, Spain
- The big park adventure
- The awesome Aquarium, the biggest in Europe.
- Took off to Barcelona, Spain

Date: 13.6.08
Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Dirty, Dangerous, and Fascinating
- Pleasureful company

Date: 14.6.08
Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Bike tour around the city
- Gaudi is my man
- A very unique night, stayed awake till the next morning to catch my train to Nice, France at 8.45

Date: 15.6.08
Location: In transit
- 9 hours in the train from Barcelona to Nice

Summery Report

Date: 6.6.08
Location: Malaga, Spain
- Wandered the beach and the city
- Got lost in the city after taking the bus in the opposite direction
- A crazy night in Malaga

Date: 7.6.08
Location: Malaga, Spain
- Went sight seeing in the city
- Al-Cazabah and the Cathedral
- Chilled at the beach till the sun-set
- …

Date: 8.6.08
Location: Malaga, Spain
- I absolutely did nothing. I went out for lunch and dinner and that was it.

Summery Report

Date: 4.6.08
Location: Seville, Spain
- Oasis Hostel is the BOMB
- This place is absloutly wonderful
- It seems like Austrilians have took over the traveling industry
- Chilling, chilling and more chilling

Date: 5.6.08
Location: Seville, Spain
- Walking in the city was absloutly wonderful
- It is a very quiet city
- Visited “Catedral Y Giralda”, awesome view of the city.
- “Real Alsazar” has a great garden
- “Pza. Espana” it was underconstruction
- They put katchup in my fish sandwich!
- Tapas tour, very nice and diffrent
- Flamenco show was very intense!

P.S. Sorry Msaed, I will upload some pictures as soon as I put them in a CD and be able to upload them to the website.

Summery Report:

03.6.08
Location: Madrid, Spain
- Arrived at 9.30
- The weather was awesome
- Dropped my stuff at Los Amigos Hostel
- I was a bit off schedule, so I had to stress all Madrid in one day
- Madrid is way smaller than I thought it was
- Wandered the city from the east to the west
- Saw the ugliest prostitutes in the world
- Had an amazing tapas in a restaurant called “Lateral”

Summery Report

30.5.08
Location: Pairs, France
- Arrived in Paris at around 13.00 after an hour in the train from brussel
- I headed to the Eiffel tower to waster some time till my host get off work
- He made some Mac n cheeze but with some fancy kinda of a cheese!
- Only middle easterners kids make a scene wherever they are
- Walked by the river and had a view on the city

31.5.08
Location: Pairs, France
- Notre Dame Cathedral
- Musee d’Orsay
- Arc de Triomphe
- 5 hours in the Louvre Museum and still need one more week to finish it
- Chilled in the park next to the Louvre
- Champs-Elysses
- Had a a very hot date with myself!

01.6.08
Location: Pairs, France
- I was in a bad mood the whole day, it was cloudy
- Park, river, restaurants
- I was suppose to leave France tonight, but DHL has not delivered my train pass yet

02.6.08
Location: Pairs, France
- I worked as a tour guide for a fellow Mexican backpacker
- The big DHL adventure
- Took the overnight train to Madrid, I had a really good time.

Summery Report

28.5.08
Location: Brussels, Belgium
- The weather in Brussels was awesome. Slightly windy, but plenty of fluffy clouds.
- The train trip was fantastic, very smooth and comfy.
- I had to waste some time in the city till my host got out of work.
- It was painful to climb hills and go down with my backpack on for several hours.
- My first impression was “Wow” this place looks freaking awesome, so much history in here.
- Lots and lots of restaurants that has outside sitting.
- The food is so tasty in here.
- So many Moroccan in here, hjabat everywhere.
- People are so friendly

29.5.08
Location: Brussels, Belgium
- I visited the Atomium, an astonishing building.
- Belgium has the best Fries, Chocolate and waffles. What else you want from life?
- 40 Cents I paid for the restroom was the best investment ever. I really can’t describe how my situation was.
- I fell in love with Brussels.
- I bought my ticket to Paris. I’m leaving tomorrow at 12.13PM

Interesting fact: The government tax 55% of your salary, unless your are VERY rich!

- COFEESHOP is different from Café

- houses were taxed depending on their width

- There is three red light districts in Amsterdam

- Mushrooms along side with Marijuana are decriminalized, but not legal

- Prostitutes rent the windows for 60-200 Euro for 6-8h and charges 50 Euro for 10-25min

- “XXX” Stands for the three disasters Amsterdam went through, which is fire, flood and disease

- The houses are tilted a little bit to the front so they can lift stuff up with-out breaking the windows

- The Blue light district branches out from the red light district and girls in there aren’t necessarily girls! Usually girls that have blue neon lights offer something more, kinkier

- The old church that is in the red district has always been there along with the red light district. The reason is back in the days fisher men come for the girls, the second day they feel bad for sinning, so they go to the church asking for forgiveness and the only way for that was to pay money for the church. So it was a win-win!

Summery Rreport

24.5.08
Location: Richmond, VA
- I cleaned up the rest of the apartment so its all clean and shinny when I come back
- The flight from DC to Heathrow was painless, I slept the whole flight as usual

25.5.08
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- The immigration in Amsterdam airport could not go any smoother
- I found out that trams do not accept 50 Euro
- The weather was cloudy, windy and coled
- I found my host apartment, and he was nice enough to give the spare key
- It is weird to find the toilet in a separate room from the sink and the top!
- My couch actually was a futon in a small office
- I wandered the city and was surprised by the amount of falafel restaurants

26.5.08
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- I had three hot chocolate. And every time I ordered they ask me “How Many?”
- I went to two free, three hours long tours
- It was showering so I had to hide in a COFFESHOP
- I was so tempted to smoke marijuana, but I didn’t.. NOT
- There are so many naked girls in the red-light district *blushing*

27.5.08
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- I went biking
- Spent the first half of the day figuring out the train system and the other half looking for a new pair of shoes
- “I know I don’t know you, but I want you so bad”, I was singing that all day
- I noticed that people in Europe dress way better than Americans
- Packed my backpack and got ready to leave to Brussels the following day

Notes:
- I’m writing this from my hosts laptop in Belgium
- Typing with French keyboard is harder than you think
- More about the trip -Click-

I’m on my way to DC to fly to Amsterdam. More to come when I arrive. Stay tuned..

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