A Long Way

The Journey

I couldn't tell how happy I was when I found out that we were going to Portugal.

I was telling all my friends about that. And they were all asking me questions about what I was going to do there . My parents and my brother were excited ass well. We were making plans and thinking about the stuff we would buy there.

The day came and we took our way to Lisbon from Ankara. What was really cool about this journey was that we were going by car! It was approximately 5000 km.

First we went to Edirne which was on the border of Bulgaria and Greece. We slept there for a night and we continued our exciting journey. It was it. It was the first time that I have been outside my country. I was in Sofia. We didn't sleep at Sofia because Bulgaria is a very small country so we just passed through. On that day we slept at Zagreb. Our hotel in Zagreb was actually pretty fancy.

Now I don't remember the rest of the journey until Italy so I will tell you the Italy part only. So we arrived at Venice and I literally hated Venice because it was so dirty. At night I don't know why the hell but we decided to take a tour with a boat in the canal. Guess what, we were stuck in the canal for like 20 minutes. That night was the worst night ever in my life.

Next day was a new page. We went to a place called San Remo. Our hotel there was an apart hotel so we could cook inside the hotel that was pretty cool. There was a swimming pool there but we didn't have our swimming suits with us, they were in the trunk of the car and my dad didn't want to open the trunk because it was very hard to close it back. Unfortunately we didn't swim that day.

We were getting closer and closer to our destination. There was only France and Spain left. We passed through France without sleeping and arrived at Barcelona. Barcelona was amazing. It was the best city I have seen during this journey. The city was planned really well, there was room for the cars, the bikes and the passengers. There was even traffic lights for the bikes! We stayed at Barcelona for two days and there was a pool in the hotel. We bought some new swimming suits but the next day it rained cats and dogs.

After Barcelona we went to Madrid but I didn't like it as much as I did Barcelona but still Madrid was nice I mean you could understand why it was the capital. After staying one day in Madrid tomorrow was the big surprise because tomorrow we were Gina be entering Portuga and I was so excited.