Traveling eastward 47 day

Traveling eastward 47 days/ Carlos Pueblo

On April 16, 2016, we took Norwegian Jade cruise liner from Houston

across Atlantic Ocean to Barcelona for 16 days, after that I continue myself

for a land tour in part of Europe until June 2, 2016 with a total of 47 days

traveling eastward. There are several stop during this trip which covering

many cities, Miami, St. Tomas, Funchal , and Barcelona; after 3 nights in

Barcelona, we went to London in separate way for one and two nights, I

went to Dublin for 5 nights, Paris 12 nights and Frankfurt for 9 nights. I

plan to write my journey for 200 pieces each in Chinese and English to

describe my feeling toward this trip.

Norwegian is the only cruise line which I have had experience, 6 times

total so far, Jewel 4 ,Epic 1, and this time with Jade, in a week, I’ll take

Sun twice in Alaska. In Miami, I took a free city bus.to tour certain portion

of the city; walking at St. Thomas, the capital city of Virgin Islands; walking

in Funchal, a Portuguese island city. A pretty city garden with spring flowers

started my late spring flower journey in Europe.

This European trip began in Barcelona, a city which I had visited last year.

I was on my way to the hotel via walking and train while the rest of our group

joined with another group of 3 took taxi to the hotel and left their luggage and

went out for city tour. I ran into a kind of Catalonians couple to help me getting

to the subway, there is a story behind it and allow me to describe it later in details.

Then, it was London one day in two Royal Parks and a nice dinner with a friend from

Tokyo. Following by Dublin, Paris, and Frankfurt, due to cold weather this year, the

spring blossom came out late and I enjoyed so much with cherry blossom, turnip ,

peony , roses, and rhododendron, etc., that is a surprise to the trip for me.

After visiting several major cities, I am filled with deep emotion. It is 71 years after

the end of World War II yet I still can see the marks of war damage especially in

Frankfurt, Germany. Paris is better off due to quick surrender while Hitler’s Germany

dragged on, of course it had been rebuilt since 1945 while German paid the price and

the human civilization pulled back and might not be recovered.