France – Paris

So over-rated I won’t bother…

Italy – Venice, Rome, Sorento & Capri, Florance

I will summarise 10 days of Italy in couple of lines…

Venice – Wow, what a stunning city. My kind of place to live for at least 10 days (no more then 20 as I would get bored no doubt). So glad it is still above water. PS there is an island in Venice that belongs to bunch of Catholic Armenians.. We will concur the world one day just watch this space J

Rome – Even better. Loved the Vatican and the Sistine chapel. It was just amazing… it’s really worth while visiting. I would  love to go to Rome again. So much to do and see

 

Sorrento and Capri – I didn’t get the opportunity to swim in the Mediterranean but got lots of photos of it… will that work? Not really… I so wanted to swim in the medi

 Florance – didn’t like Florence as much as the others… it is just me… cause everyone else loves it

London-Belgium-Germany-Austria

in 2 days we crossed 4 countries… so lucky I had so much on the bus…. yay

Belgium – I was walking through the interesting bits in Brussels when I came across the “Mozart Hotel” http://www.hotel-mozart.be/. Beautifully decorated, boutique hotel with amazing antique artefacts lookalike. The owner was a Moroccan called “Ben” short for “Ben Rahman”.  He obviously had gr8 taste and lots of money. We had gr8 chats (of course about Bush and the war in Iraq, what else?). I gave him 25 Syrian Pound as a souvenir

Germany – Did the Rhine River Cruise… not much else

 

Austria – gr8 mountains

 Then to Italy

OK Europe – Only the interesting bits – 1st Athens

I started so many blogs in order to summarise my stay in Armenia but decided to put that aside and do one for the other countries that I visited…

Athens

I booked the hotel for Athens over the Internet and it was £20 cheaper then anything else I can find there. so of course I booked it since the last time I booked the cheapest hotel it turned out to be excellent (for my standards). So off I go to Athens… when I got to the airport I realised that I didn’t have the hotel phone number and only the address which isn’t a smart thing to do.. never-mind after catching a bus and then a taxi got to the hotel. inside the hotel was OK for the price, the room itself was even better (for the price). it had clean sheets, balcony and a refrigerator (carpet was awful but u will expect that for the price). until now I still don’t know why the hotel was cheaper then everything else around me as I don’t expect Athens to be like Vienna in regards to cleanliness being next to godliness… so I decide to go for a wonder.. around 1pm I leave my hotel and of course I meet the locals who live near the hotel… let just say I wasn’t in the financial district of Athens… I was more at the “Drug heads” district of Athens… after meeting two of the local women who were on drugs and then seeing another one negotiating “specials” with a local man I kind of decided not to leave the hotel after dark… but being extreme optimist I’m still thinking this might be a coincidence…. The next day I go for a walkabout again, trying to swim in the Mediterranean I ended up in the ports which is not where swimmers go… never-mind… this things happens when u travel… Coming back to the hotel I notice a guy on the motorbike selling drugs to another guy who was buying it and his friend wanted to check the quality of the drug so he was sniffing it on the street…. now I would not have had any problems if it wasn’t happening in front of the hotel… Yes ladies and gentlemen, at the front of the hotel, possibly 1.5 meters away from the door of the hotel… of course I had to stop and look cause I never seen people take drugs before and it was interesting… In conclusion, I did not end up staying in the Financial district of Athens….