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It has been just over a year since the trip started and I am finally finished writing about it. It took much longer than I thought to write about the trip then I had assumed. Part of that is writing, even as poorly as I do, takes a lot of time and effort. It is [...]

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Our plane may have landed in Glasgow but we immediately took the train to Edinburgh, with a plan to return to Glasgow before we made our final trips home. Edinburgh is an amazing city. It’s summer also features non-stop festivals much like Glasgow, except there is an enormous castle on top of an enormous hill [...]

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Our week long tour of Ireland started in Dublin. After that we spent a night in Galway, a night in Sligo, and a night in Belfast before flying the worlds shortest flight to Glasgow. We spent a whole day in Dublin seeing the sites like the Spire (from far too many locations), the Post Office [...]

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Brussels has a few sites to see as it mostly a political power house without much for the tourist to do. The central square is the highlight and it is beautiful, but I understand there are more interesting cities to visit is Belgium. Of course there is also the statue of a boy peeing know [...]

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We found an odd little caravan based hostel to stay at just outside of Amsterdam. It was a group of trailers parked permanently in a field by a lake. Throughout the park were a variety of interesting paper-mache sculptures of animals. It was relaxing and… kind of trippy. Amsterdam was the first city where we [...]

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Berlin is rare city in Europe having been the most damaged after war have been heavily rebuilt with a lot of the old charm replaced with concrete and and glass. Some of the structures are truly impressive, but the charm is missing. It is a good change of pace though compared to the more traditional [...]

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Struggles with accommodations continued. We stayed one night at a dirty, over stuffed hostel. Tiny rooms with 6 people sleeping in them. Fortunately during the week there were enough places with spaces that we could shop around and find one which worked really well for us. A little basement room in a hotel of sorts. [...]

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If memory serves Munich was a pivotal time in the trip when the month of nearly non stop travel caught up to us. Hosteling is great when you are alone and meeting people is a necessity, but when you are traveling as a couple the total lack of privacy become more of an issue. Fortunately [...]

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We visited both Vienna and Salzburg on our way through Austria as we headed towards Munich. I believe it was my brother who told me that Vienna is a beautiful city. I have visited several European cities now and I can safely agree: Vienna is pretty amazing. I might be partial because of my general [...]

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Parts of my girlfriend’s family are from Hungary and she discovered she had relatives whom she had never met living in Buda. That is the Buda half of Budapest which was originally two cities separated by the Danube. They very gracefully offered to let us stay in a unused apartment of the law office they [...]

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