sentences:  He did make several attempts at business, all unsuccessful.He traveled to Europe in 1910 in the company of his friend Roberto Leviller, then travelled with another friend, his future brother-in-law Adán Deihl, with whom he visited Italy, Greece, Constantinople, Egypt, Japan, China, Russia, India, Ceylon, and Germany before settling in Paris, where (after his father decided he had had enough of paying the costs of his son's idleness) he stayed with the sculptor (to whom he later dedicated "Xaimaca"), and where he decided to become a writer.Despite that decision, Güiraldes threw himself into the French capital's social whirl, practically abandoning his literary ambitions.