After my trip to Indonesia the rest of the year 2011 wasn't really exciting. I worked a few months as a translator of software localization but then I was dismissed. I spent some time in Slovakia trying to figure out what to do with my father's flat, I rented it to some students who stayed there 8 months, but now it is for sale again.

In September 2011 I travelled to Uzhgorod in Ukraine where I visited a couchsurfer and his family but I stayed there only one night and then I returned to Slovakia. There are several things to visit in Uzhgorod including the castle and the museum. The weather there was good, sunny and around 25°C.

In December 2011 I travelled to Berlin where I spent 4 days and I had two different hosts. I went to a CS meeting with the first one where I met other couchsurfers from Berlin. I visited many places in Berlin but the weather was rainy and cold, just around 6°C. I visited also Pergamon museum.

I spent Christmas 2011 in Slovakia with my mother and grandmother, but as all my efforts to find another job failed, I decided to travel again at the end of January to Rome. I wasn't sure where I would go after visiting Rome, East Africa and South America were under the consideration too, but finally West Africa won. I bought a flight ticket from Rome to Lisbon and then to Madrid and finally to Tangier which is in the north of Morocco.

I arrived in Rome on January 27th and I immediately had to face a problem because there was a strike and I couldn't take a train from the airport to the city. I waited two hours until the train arrived. Then I met my host and we had a dinner in a pizzeria. He showed me the city center in Rome and we visited Colosseum and the Vatican city in the following days.

I stayed one week in Rome, I had a second host who hosted me unexpectedly for one night because we had a meeting late at night and I couldn't return to my first host due to the bad weather. My third host lived in Fiumicino. When I had to leave to Lisbon he took me to the airport in the morning. The weather in Italy was getting colder so I was lucky to go to to Portugal where it was sunny and warm. 

My host in Lisbon was a rich guy and had a very nice flat in the city center and a car Aston Martin. We went to some restaurants and a bar where they sang Fado music. I went to Sintra alone for one day and then I took a bus to Cabo da Roca, but it was twilight when I got there so I couldn't see much of it.

After my trip in Portugal I took a flight to Madrid and I stayed there only two days which was sufficient to visit the main tourist places there.My host was sick so he couldn't accompany me but I went to to visit the city by myself, I had a map so it was easy to go around. I always found people who were willing to take pictures of me. When I walked alone in the park I met an Estonian guy and we decided to go together to the museum Reina Sofia and in the evening we went to Prado because it was for free after 6pm. I didn't enjoy Reina Sofia much because I never liked modern art and I found the Picasso's Guernica quite depressive, but I saw a lot of interesting paintings in Prado, just the time was limited so I couldn't visit it as much as I would like to. I had a good time in Madrid but it was colder there than in Portugal.