I have so much to say about my two weeks traveling and my time since my return, and I must admit, I have so little time to say it! As with my last post, I'm typing this up before leaving for yet another trip, hoping to get just a little bit down to satisfy both myself and you for the time being!
As for my two weeks of travel, it was amazing! I loved Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg and the city's surrounding areas so much. I did not make it to Paris because of the strikes, but it was ok because it gave me more time in Salzburg and Prague, both cities I now can't imagine having less time in. I feel like I learned a lot about where I was, especially in Germany. Touring three different cities gave me a great overview of the country as a whole. I think one of my favorite parts of traveling was meeting so many new people! I met people from not just all over Europe, but from all over the world! From the locals in the countries I visited to countries like England, Italy, Czech Republic, South Africa, Australia, China, Switzerland, Russia, and many many more.
Now I am about to leave for my final trip out of the Denmark before leaving to go home in 3 weeks!! Ah! I am lucky (and so are you...if you want to see me again) to have such wonderful, wonderful friends and family to lure me back to the States. Seriously - if it weren't for you I might be back only on occasion, and certainly not in 3 weeks!
I found a quote that seems suitable for my reason to love travel, and fits with my love to be with (and act like) a child!
"That’s the glory of foreign travel. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses."
Bill Bryson
PS - Happy Thanksgiving!!! As said before, I am so thankful for YOU! I am also thankful for the wonderful opportunity I have had to live and travel abroad, for the education I have gained since being here, the new family and friends I have found, and for knowing that someday, hopefully in the near future, I will be back to travel, explore, and live abroad some more :)
Here are some pictures for now, stories will follow in a later blog. Enjoy :)
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Salzburg, on the Sound of Music tour :)
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| Beautiful Charles Bridge in Prague, right by our hostel! |
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| Part of the East Side Gallery, the remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall |
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Overlook of Munich from Cincinnati's gift to the city
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Statue of the Unknown Soldier at Dachau, the first concentration camp opened in Germany. An interesting and in some ways enlightening experience.
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| We couldn't leave Munich without a traditional German experience at the Hofbrauhaus! |
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| Neuschwantein, a fairy tale castle in Fussen, about 2 hours outside of Munich |
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| Alps in Fussen, near Neuschwanstein Castle |
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| A special visiter I had to come home to in Copenhagen! |
