31 days trip
to Europe/Carlos Pueblo
Just
arriving home from a 31 days trip to Europe, I have touched
several cities
in 6 Nations including 10 days in London, England;
6 days in
Barcelona, Spain, 4 days in Malaga, Spain, 3 days in
Valencia,
Spain, and 7 days cruise to the Mediterranean. Transportation
by airplane,
train, and cruise, I have met so many travelers from the
world, male
and female, young and old, got to know parts of the
Europe.
I took a direct
United flight from Houston to London, then, 2 Portugal
flights from
London to Barcelona, then, a Norwegian Epic to the
Mediterranean
3 nations 5 seaports, finally, 2 Lufthansa
flights from
Barcelona to
Houston. In London I used Tube subway to get around
And 2 days
buses to reach the Oxford and Cambridge while 9 days train
in Spain to get around 8 cites.
I arrange
Hostel stay as my room and board. The hostel is a noble idea,
A non-profit
organization to provide for the youths to stay, now also
extends the
service to the adults with a budgetary concerns. Food costs
more in
Europe, I practice two meals a day discipline one breakfast and
one late lunch.
Only at the cruise, I could enjoy a normal room and board
more than 3
meals a day. I hear that the European love to drink wine and
beer,
actually, to drink at a restaurant is still expansive. I did buy cheap
beer in
order to get to use the toilet.
My medium
size luggage can hold 7 day’s supply of changing cloths; therefore,
I need to
watch for laundry and also carry some detergent. Most of the hostel
Provides coin
operated wash machine and yet two hostels even provide a terrace
for naturally
sun drying facility. I did not go to Rome, Italy, instead, I did a laundry
at the
harbor city of Civitavecchia, Italy.
I was a
month early to see rose blossom in London, this is a second misses in 4
Years, yet I
did run into the blooming in Spain, Italy and France. Tulips were right
at the peak
in this part of Europe. I witness the Alkebono flowering cherry bloom-
ing in
London, Oxford, and Cambridge which were two weeks late that the Tidal
Basin in
Washington D.C.
I observed
more in details at the great British Museum this time and more completely
See the
Royal guards exchange at Buckingham Palace. In Spain, I have enjoyed very
of the
remains castles of the Moor Dynasty. I have taken near 2000 photos for my
memory.
