Paco´s Life: Madrid

Un paseillo por la Europa del Este / A walk through Eastern Europe

Allright, enough of philosophycal and personal bullshit and lets move to more funny issues in this blog. Now that the last OCU payment and soon the mercenary´s money will make my bank account fatter, it is time to retake some travelling. I really needed it! Las trip was back in the beginning of February and, since then, the most far away I got was Cartagena so I was really looking forward this. And then, in a Copenhagen nostalgy email exchange, Giorgos comes up saying he needs to get his car from Athens up to Helsinki and he hadnt been able to find anyone to share the trip…A second later I was checking flights, it was the perfect plan, in one trip I would score a few european countries I havent been yet: Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Lithuania and Latvia, plus a bit more of Greece and Poland. Due to flight availability and lack of time I wont be able to make it up to Helsinki but, anyway, I believe is a great trip A bit of greek beach, a couple of days in Budapest, Poland all the way from South to Norht, baltic experience… The final itinerary is as follows:

• Saturday 28th: arrival in Athens and night in Katerini, northern Greece beach city.
• Sunday 29th: drive through Macedonia as fast as possible and night in Nis, Serbian southern city.
• Monday 30th and Tuesday 1st: Budapest
• Wednesday 2th: Lublin, eastern Poland
• Thursday 3th and Friday 4th: Kaunas, Lithuania
• Saturday 5th: Riga, Latvia
• Sunday 6th: back to Madrid

Road-trip with Giorgos is not something new, we already drove all over California in a similar trip. The new thing here is the HospitalityClub factor. In each of these stops we arranged a local contact, thanks to whom we wont pay an euro for accommodation and, what is more important, we will have someone to show us around, take us for party etc… So, definitely, a very promising trip through a part of Europe I hadnt explore so far.

Therefore, next Friday, there we go again, a bag loaded with rum, a cammera and 2800 km of fun

PD: There will be more coming soon…