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sorry, it's not about the movie, although that is great too. this is about my wonderful trip to europe i took may 17-31. i visited: london, amsterdam, st. goar, munich, some city in austria, venice, rome, vatican city, florence, lucerne, paris, then back to london. in 12 days. it was amazing and i can't wait until i save up enough money to do it again.

jim - i said i would tell you how the contiki tour went. i honestly don't think you should book one unless it's a getaway style tour because this was so fast paced, we were in a different hotel every day except rome and paris. it was fun but really tiring and basically just gives you an idea of the places you want to come back to sometime in the future and places you thought you would have like but didn't really do much for you.

i got back awhile ago but have been avoiding making a thread about it because the day after i got back i started my new job, and went back to my old one, so i didn't really have time. but here are some pictures, i decided to do just 1 or 2 from every place i went to because i took um, 433 pictures. yeeeeah. anyway. PICTURE TIME!

london (this was the most exciting thing we saw since we were so tired from our flight that we just slept the whole time we were there):


dover (the not-so-white cliffs of dover)


amsterdam (i didn't get high, but pretty much everyone else on the tour did and said it was the best stuff they've ever had, it was so bizarre going into a place and getting a weed menu)


st. goar, germany (pretty much the most exciting thing was the largest freestanding cuckoo clock in the world, or something)


munich (here's the glockenspiel, but the best part about munich was the giant beer hall where they only serve beer by the liter)


germany (this is the castle that walt disney saw and based the disneyworld castle on)


dachau (that day our tour manager decided to take us to this concentration camp and im really glad she did because it was just so surreal and intense to actually walk through one)


austria (this was the swarovski crystal museum in austria which i swear you have to be on acid to fully appreciate)


venice (view from our gondola ride, except the gondalier was on his cell phone a lot so that was sweet too)


rome (the first one is the "eh" view from when you step out of the subway station and the second one is from when we saw the pope in st. peter's square)


florence (florence was really pretty and here's a picture of yet another tiny car)


lake como, italy


mt. stanserhorn (view from the top of a mountain in switzerland)


lucerne, switzerland (this was where a weird old lady asked us if the U.S. had 24 states in it. when we told her there were 50 she got mad and said that was way too big)


paris (definitely my favorite, the first one i forget what that is, har har, the second one is the view from underneath the glass pyramid in the louvre and then the next one is when we were driving around the arc de triomphe and almost died and the last one is from when we went to the moulin rouge)






ok that's it, i could seriously type so much more but this post is already 10 years long so ummmm i guess now talk about amazing trips that you've taken or where you want to go, and pictures! share pictures from your most favorite trips ever.

wow.

simply wow.

*stares at pictures in awe*

Those are some amazing pictures.

Aww man, you slept through London? This makes me sad. You haaaaaave to go back there someday and stay conscious.

FLORENCE!!!1

:O not enough photos of London

And why were you driving around the Arc de Triomphe? I've watched people doing that from the top and it's very scary!

^^haha, yeah, that was so funny, there were cars just going around and around and around. it was weird.

anyways.

yeah, i can't believe how lucky you are.
if i EVER get the chance to travel to all of those beautiful places.... well, i would take it. i can't wait to do it one day. you're very lucky

That's awesome.

nikki4982 wrote:Aww man, you slept through London? This makes me sad. You haaaaaave to go back there someday and stay conscious.

haha i know, we left detroit at 6pm after being up all day and then we couldn't sleep on the plane and when we got there with the time difference it was 6 in the morning. we only were there for that day and me and my friend tried to do some stuff but after an hour we were like zombies and decided to go sleep.

i think the bus driver drove around the arc-de-triomph just for fun, which is insanse because i don't understand how someone could find driving a huge bus around that thing fun. it was funny because he put on blur's song 2 before we started and just kept going around and around to that song, quite an experience.

Isn't that the biggest roundabout in the world? Takes like 45 minutes to walk around it.

Hee, that's my favourite.

Sounds like you enjoyed it. Grr, I need to go back there.

Dude, I saw one of those tiny cars in my city today
I think they're headed North America way!

megxyz128 wrote:haha i know, we left detroit at 6pm after being up all day and then we couldn't sleep on the plane and when we got there with the time difference it was 6 in the morning. we only were there for that day and me and my friend tried to do some stuff but after an hour we were like zombies and decided to go sleep.

Awww, that's no excuse! When I went, we left at 9pm and got there in the morning, and I can't sleep on planes, so I was the only one who didn't sleep on the flight, so then we stayed up all day til late that night!

Course, we all know I'm an insane insomniac, so maybe that has something to do with why I didn't die.

J-Neli wrote:Isn't that the biggest roundabout in the world? Takes like 45 minutes to walk around it.

Heehee, "roundabout"! Them's called a circle in these here parts!!

Haha, I looked up "traffic circle" on answers.com (to see if I could find out about that one possibly being the largest in the world) and this was on the page:

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?met ... tab=2222_1

^ Collingswood circle! (Which is most certainly still there and we go on it alllllll the time... in fact I was just on it earlier tonight.)

But anyway, I can't find anything to confirm or deny that it's the biggest one, but I don't think it is from this part of the answers.com definition of traffic circle:

answers.com: traffic circles wrote:Despite the fact that some of these circles were huge (many were in excess of 100 meters in diameter), they weren't large enough for high-speed merging.

Oh wait! Maybe it is!

some info site about the arc wrote:The Square is a circular area 120 meters in diameter.

It's hard to say, though, cos that other one didn't specify the biggest of the huge ones.

But, on the plus side, I found a nifty picture on my hunt:

I WENT TO LAKE COMO AND LONDON AND VENICE AND POSSIBLY ROME BUT I WAS TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER IT WILL YOU MARRY ME TOPIC CREATOR?

Nikki I think to walk on the outside of the roundabout (like where you have to cross all the roads on your way around) takes 45 minutes. I mean that is one huge roundabout with twelve streets attached and two of them are the Champs Elysees.

I've never actually walked around the whole thing, but I've been 'round bits of it quite a few times when going to other places and it would only take 45 minutes if you were walking really really slowly.