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Europe

Arrival in Germany

As a going away to the South Pole party, what could be better than Oktoberfest in Munich?  Absolutely nothing I figured, so my housemates Mark, Raf and I all found ourselves on a plane headed for Frankfurt.  Mark had met a girl named Christine on the internet who said that she could get us a [...]

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Paris, the city of lights

It’s a day for cliched post titles. 
I think Paris may have been my favorite place that we visited during this trip.  Everything was amazing, from the food, to the wine, the art and even the people.  We’d expected to be treated rudely, but thankfully this stereotype proved to be quite false.  We arrived on [...]

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Fun in Amsterdam

Well, this town is nothing like what I expected!  We got into our hostel from the airport pretty late, but we wanted to go out and see a bit of the nightlife.  We were staying in the Leidseplein area, and there were tons of bars open at taht time of the night.  We were impressed [...]

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London calling!

This was my first trip out of North America.  I’d just heard about a great fair on US Airways between DFW and London, and decided that I couldn’t miss out.  I asked around my circle of friends to see if anyone wanted to go, but it was very last minute, and most people already had [...]

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