So SG asked all the ladies to write a blog about the favorite places we've visited. Well mine is pretty hard because I have traveled pretty extensively. Mostly in the US but also Europe. 9
When I was in high school I went to Europe for the first time. I was 16 and could drink! Amazingly I didn't get drunk except one night. We went to a club that you had to be 25 to get into. I made out with a French fireman there. LOL. The toilets were pay toilets and it sucked. Drinking and having to pay to pee is a serious buzzkill. We went to Versailles and toured the castle. I saw Jim Morrison's grave at the famous graveyard there. A few other famous people are buried there too. I have no pictures to share cause all my pictures are old school pictures. Digital pictures were not available at the time. I am showing my age I know. We took a train to Madrid. We visited Toledo as well. I liked Spain a lot more than France. People spoke English. I can read and write French but speaking it is hard for me. I took 5 years of French. It was my favorite subject and I was good at it. Years and years later I can still read French fairly well. Writing this makes me want to brush up on it. Maybe I'll take a class and refresh my memory.
When I was 24 I worked on the Ozzfest tour like I said in a previous blog. I traveled the country. I saw Plymouth Rock (God it was so small), that famous groundhog in Pennsylvania, old cemetaries from the 1800s (some had markings saying they died on the Mayflower!) and nearly every stadium on the East Coast. I have visited Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, Vegas, Roswell and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. I have been to nearly every state in the US minus Hawaii an I d Alaska. I want to visit Idaho one day and just eat potatoes at every meal! I have also been across the border to Tijuana a few times as well as Nogales in Mexico.
I'd have to say my favorite place I have ever been would be Prague. I visited there a few years ago. I would move there today if I could. Everyone was so friendly and the public restrooms were so fucking clean. I know it is a weird thing but all the times I used a restroom there they were always so nice and clean. Sad to say it isn't true here in the states. :( I do have a ton of pictures to upload from my trip. I hope you s enjoy because it is going to take me forever to load the pictures. I don't mind because I would love to revisit my lovely trip.
So the trip started in Berlin. I do not know ANY German. None. Not even a hello. My life long best friend had visited there the year before and told me that they all speak English so I didn't worry about learning too much. I remember when I was in Europe before that everyone spoke nearly perfect English. Not true when I was there. I don't know if I just was unlucky or what was going on. It rained the whole time we were there. We planned to take a train down to Prague and stay a week and then come back up to Berlin for a few more days and catch our plane back to the US.
We also took a train about an hour and a half to a little city called Kunta Hora. It is the picture of the bones. It is a famous Ossaury. All those bones are genuine. They are all over this place. Even the chandelier was bones. I apologize for the blurry picture of it. I don't know how to erase it.
There is pictures of the Brandenburg Gate and of course the Berlin Wall. So much history there. I really wish I could move there. It is my goal to go back someday. Going through these pictures is bittersweet. I loved the place but I miss it and want to be there! Oh we went through Dresden. My favorite band (the Dresden Dolls) and my favorite book (Slaughterhouse-Five) is based in Dresden. It was pretty exciting to be there.
Well everyone have a nice weekend. I have tickets to see the Chihuly Exhibit at the Botanical Gardens tomorrow. It is perfect weather for it too.
Bites and Licks,
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