Pan-American Journey

On October 23, after about a year and a week since we started traveling in "las Americas", we left the new world and, flying from Montreal to Amsterdam, re-entered the old continent. It is very difficult to describe all the emotions experienced, but we are at the end of a fabulous journey, a journey that many people only dream of, but will probably never undertake. It was a journey in which we learned a lot of new things, interacted with interesting people and arrived in incredible places. I feel immense joy mixed with a sense of uncertainty in the face of the months to come, months of restarting in the old homeland...

In Amsterdam, we stayed three nights at a hotel near Schiphol airport. Because of a musical event and being a weekend, all the hotels in the center with prices under 250 Euro per night were fully booked. We spent one day walking around the famous city and the next day, being very rainy, we only took a short walk around the surroundings and slept...

What is immediately noticeable upon returning to Europe is how people interact. That vitality, goodwill, pleasant curiosity and genuine smiles of the Latin American world are unfortunately missing in Western Europe... A bus driver got angry when we asked him how to validate the ticket, the information worker at the station rudely sent us to another information desk. People seem rushed and irritated, there is agglomeration, noise. A group of noisy young people get on the train at 10:00 a.m. with cans of beer in their hands. During the train journey, people talk loudly on the phone in all the languages ​​of the world. Welcome back to Europe!Lue lisää