The End

Thank You very much for reading my adventures through Europe. It was always nice to know people cared about what I was up to. Enjoy these last couple posts!

London: The Beginning of the Amazing Adventure

London was the meeting place for Emily, our friends from Germany and I. Emily and I took a boat ride down to Kew Gardens, met with Wesley--a friend from Purdue, had dinner with Meg and her mom---who had just returned from a trip through Ireland, and saw all the sights with Jens and Jessica. It was a fun time, but London is so expensive so we were ready to leave after a couple days.

Wesley and I





for some reason this flipped the wrong way...but I snapped it perfectly as Em jumped




The umbrella was a great wind shield.

this is in fact a human acting as a dog

Colonge, Dortmund, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Munich

From London Em, Jens, Jessica and I flew to Colonge, walked around the city, picked up their car and drove back to their house in Dortmund. We visited with the family for a few days. From there Jens drove Emily and I to Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Munich. From Munich Jens had to leave us, so Em and I took trains to Zurich, Sienna(Italy), and Milan then flew to Alicante. We had to fly back through London to head to the US---not fun! It was an amazing 3 weeks, but the constant traveling was very tiring by the end. The following pictures are from our trip with Jens...the pictures from Zurich and after are in blogs following...there was a problem with the listing of blogs, so the blog of my final trip with the program is mixed in between this trip. Have fun looking!

Colonge:

"Since you have 3 girls for just one guy, why don't you leave 2 for us."

-The men at this kebab place

Dortmund:

these chairs were set up for the world cup
just a little bit windy/freezing


Getting the Golf ready before the long drive..

Berlin:

Oh, the fun of the Bus tour

A Holocaust Memorial

Checkpoint Charlie

The World Clock

A Piece of the Berlin Wall

This may be my Favorite Photo of the Trip--the position of these 2 are perfect. Freiheit....means something along the lines of "Freedom for Everyone"

She owns a wonderful Currywurst Shop---delicious...we started talking with her and found out she was born in AZ, moved to Germany when she was little and has since married an Italian man. She is fluent in English, German and Italian. Her dad still lives in Tucson = she's a cool lady

Prague:

The only plus side to driving in Czech was the scenery...my recommendation: Never drive in Prague!

This was one of the many taxi drivers, hotel personal, and pedestrians that knew NO English, German or Spanish, had no idea where a gas station was, and couldn't help us find our hotel.

H2O was twice the amount of this beer=we barely had enough money to pay for lunch.

A Frank Gehry building

Vienna:

this schnitzel was bigger than me...half of it was still bigger than the plate
The sweetest public benches/chairs I've ever seen

Munich:
the Futbol Stadium

The amount of bikes in Munich was Lovely

Beer Garden

Having Jens drive and accompany us through these countries made all the difference. It was great to have someone who knew the general area and langauge. We were sad to leave him, but Zurich was calling us!