Tough Travels

This post is coming from Florence and please dont mind any spelling or grammatical errors because these keyboards are a little bit funky.
The trip is about halfway through at this point and my favorite location so far I think is Madrid. We still have Venice, Vienna and Berlin to go.
Traveling has not been as seemless as it could have been. Joe and I have had at least one small difficulty in each location. In Lisbon it was the trains. We went to the train station at around 10 am looking to catch an overnight train 12 hours later that would put us in Madrid. The guy at the station told us the train was booked. We were stuck in a sense and spent an extra night at the Lisbon hostel, which fortunately was very nice. It meant less time in Madrid, however.
Madrid was fairly smoothe and we met some cool American guys in our hostel. We also met up with a kid named Carlos (who reminded me of Zafir for those who know him) that we had met in our Lisbon hostel. Such is the nature of travel. People generally have similar routes. The train from Madrid to Paris was ungodly expensive (70 euros).We were hoping everything would be around 25 considering our rail pass. The biggest problem with Madrid was that we wanted to go out on a pub crawl (a guided thing that shows you the good night life). But when we got to the meeting point it was just me, Joe and this little Australian woman who was the guide. She awkwardly showed us around but bailed after about 15 minutes.
Paris was a great city as to be expected. We walked to the Eifel Tower at night. That was our problem. We got a little off track. We could see the tower up above but could not see a path to get there. We eneded up in a back alley. Not a good idea. It was well guarded by a local gangish group -- who were quite ammusd when we hurridely walked away.
In Florence Joe lost his camera. Oh yea and in Paris I almost lost my wallet. I left it in this Chinese restaraunt that we stopped in for 15 minutes to grab a quick bite. It was a frantic 5 minutes when I thought it was gone.
Traveling sure aint easy. We will be lucky to get home alive at this point.
Photos to come obviously.
Comments Welcome,
Andrew