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A fun little reflection on Europe.

Best City: London
Worst City: Naples

Best Food: Czech. Hearty and delicious
Worst Food: I didn't have anything spectacularly bad this semester. Kangaroo wasn't that great though

Best flavor of Fanta: Green Apple. available in Latvia
Worst flavor of Fanta: the brown kind they only have in Italy. I don't know what flavor it is exactly, since I don't speak Italian. This stuff was so bad that I took one sip and got rid of it, then got something else to get rid of the taste. It was horrible

Best flavor of gelato: Papaya
Worst flavor of gelato: Melon. But I don't particularly like melons in the first place

Best thing about Freiburg: It's fairly central in Europe. France is only an hour away, so is Switzerland. Belgium is darn close, and Italy is about 6 hours.
Worst thing about Freiburg: the weather

Best Currency: Euro. What's not to love about a currency you can use in 12 different countries?
Worst Currency: Pound. All because of that exchange rate.

Best roadside snack: Crepes. Find them on nearly every corner in Paris, and they're like 3 times the size of any crepe you'll get in the US
Worst roadside snack: Polish mountain cheese. It has another name that I can't remember. It was ok, just not the best thing I've had.

Best pastry: Schnecke. aka the German cinnamon bun. mmmmm
Worst pastry: Custard croissant. Italian pastry. Once again, it's ok, but there is way too much custard in it for me. The plus side was that after one, I wasn't hungry for hours

Best field study trip: Eastern Europe. How else was I going to see Latvia?
Worst field study trip: Geneva. I spent the majority of 2 days in the same damn room at the UN buidling. I barely saw anything of Geneva, and even then it was in the dark.

Best Airport: Amsterdam Schipol
Worst Airport: Riga. what kind of airport installs one person bathrooms?

Best Train: Eurostar (Rome->Naples) I was in Naples in an hour and twenty minutes. This train hit a max speed of something like 250 kph. Yay for speed
Worst Train: Trenitalia (all over Italy, but the worst I was on was Milan->Torino). Italian national trains are always late. Always. Not to mention the creepy Italians sitting next to you.

Best cultural experience: Olympics. by far, hands down
Worst cultural experince: hiking the Schlossberg in Freiburg....in a foot of snow. Hiking up a mountain in snow...well frankly, it's just asking for disaster. Besides numerous pratfalls and practically sliding down the final strech, we all made it back ok.

Best Museum: the Louvre. all that art for a mere 8 euro.
Worst Museum: Uffizi in Florence. One ridiculously long line, a 10 euro entrance fee, and I think I only recognized like 2 paintings

( London pictures )

Have you ever wondered how they take postcard pictures that never seem to have any people in them? Seriously, I want to know how they do it.