The Best and Worst Thing About Europe

The best: that even though there are so many countries with widely varied languages, cuisine, and culture, it’s so easy to zip over to another country and/or major city to do some sightseeing. How cool is it that you can live in Germany and say, “Hey, how about let’s go and visit Austria and Switzerland for the weekend!” Much cooler than living in Chicago and saying, “Hey, let’s go visit the Wisconsin Dells for the weekend.”

The worst: why the hell do they charge for going to the toilet here? I understand paying ten or twenty cents if the toilets are really clean and well kept, but when the toilet is smellier than a public toilet in the summer heat of NYC and I have to pay thirty cents to use it? I do not understand.

It’s hard to type on a German keyboard as the keys are different than what I am used to and I’m so busy going from place to place that I find myself checking the Internet only sporadically. I can’t believe that a week of my vacation has already passed – the remaining two weeks are sure to fly by!

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.