Best Western Tour Continues – Berlin, Germany

Arrived, July 17th and Departed, July 20th   We arrived in Berlin and our first thought was that their central train station is the nicest we’ve ever seen. It’s huge and super modern looking with lots of restaurants and stores inside. Grand Central and Penn station look small and ancient in comparison. We arrived in […]

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Random Observations

1. America + Public Place + Lack of Deodorant = Shame; Europe + Public Place + Lack of Deodorant = Being a Local. 2. We have to assume the Italians had invented both pizza and the wheel long before America was discovered yet the lack of a sliced pie implies they have never thought to […]

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Random Observations

1. Man on bike + man in business suit = funny looking man. 2. Interesting quote gleaned from a friend, “In America 100 years is old and in Europe 100 miles is far.” 3. After 8 countries we are left with only one universal word…..Pizza. Even Jesus got a name modification but not pizza, it […]

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From Prague to Berlin, by train

From Prague, we took a 5 hour train north to Berlin. The train was packed and lots of people didn’t have seats, so they were squatting wherever possible. It made for pretty cramped conditions, but luckily we had reserved seats. There were a lot of young backpackers on the train and they couldn’t have been […]

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4 days in Prague – Czech Republic

We’ve been looking forward to visiting Prague based on all of the rave reviews we heard from friends and family that have been there before us. It’s one of the oldest cities in Europe and was relatively untouched during the war, so a lot of the original architecture is still intact, making it a very […]

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Bucket List Destination

This looks amazing, scary, and thrilling! Too bad we’re not going to be in Bulgaria, but hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to do something similar somewhere along our trip! allthingseurope: Taking the Dive from Stari Most -Mostar, Bosnia (by lassi.kurkijarvi)

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