England: I didn't know what to expect when it came to England. I have heard a lot of good things about it. And I have also heard some not so good things about it. But I enjoyed my time there. We landed in London at 11:00 am their time after a long day of flying and almost missing our connecting flight at JFK. We went to straight to get our rental car. Yes, Nick drove in London... On the wrong side of the road. I kept on having to tell him, "Nick you are driving on the grass." "Nick get over you are not on the road" His perception was a little off. ha. But we drove to Stonehenge. It was pretty cool. I couldn't believe that we were in England looking at Stonehenge. Something I have seen on T.V. and in books my whole life. Then we drove to Bath. That was pretty awesome too. It was so unreal. By this point we were so tired!! So we drove back to drop the car off and go to our hotel.
The next day we walked around all of London. And I mean we WALKED ALL of London. We weren't planning on it. It just happened. We planned on walking to one place but then we got carried away and we walked to the next place and the next etc. We were pretty beat. While walking around I noticed there were maybe 2 or 3 places that sold Dr. Pepper. this made me nervous. So on our way back to the hotel. I got a couple to hold me over just in case. Yep England was the only place that had Dr. Pepper!! Anyway.... we ate at Hard Rock in London... the very first one EVER. It was pretty awesome. Plus its tradition. In one day we basically saw everything we wanted to see from walking around everywhere. So the next day we just hopped on a double decker bus and took a tour of the city. We would hop off if there was something we wanted to see. It was so much fun.
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| Nick driving |
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| Double Decker Ride |
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| Westminster |
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| Changing of the Guards |
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| Buckingham Palace |
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| The Roman Baths |
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| St. Pauls Cathedral |
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| The Tower of London |
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| The Tower Bridge |
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| Some Fish and Chips |
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| Westminster |
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| Big Ben |
Netherlands: For the rest of our trip we were with a tour group. We were kind of skeptical of doing a tour but we are so glad we did. It was a tour group for 18-30 year olds. And it was nice cause we didn't have to worry about driving or buses. Finding hotels etc. And we met some pretty awesome people. We were planning on just ditching our group if we didn't like them. But we really liked them. And now we have some new facebook friends. But we met people from all over so it was way awesome.
But the Netherlands were beautiful. We went to a Belgium choclate factory. We saw flowers and churches everywhere. You think Utah is full of churches... you have no idea. Amsterdam was interesting. Very different from Utah. Marijuana is legal there. So is prostitution. At night the streets were packed! I had a headache from all the smoke. I thought I was going to get high from just walking around. But in the morning it is the most beautiful place. So cute and so quite. I loved it. We went to the Ann Frank mesume. You are not allowed to take pictures. But it was amazing. We saw the actual journal and her posters and everything. We went threw her actual house. It was such a neat experience. We also had the best pancakes and mango juice ever in this cute little cafe!! And of course we had Hard Rock.
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| The city of Amsterdam |
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| Red Light District |
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| Yummy Pancake |
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| Hard Rock |
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| The Pancake cafe |
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| Amsterdam |
Germany: I loved Germany! It was one of my favorite places. We went along the Rhine Valley. Which is full of castles. It was so cool. We were camera happy taking pictures of all the different castles. We stayed in a very small town called St. Goar. And we walked up to one of its castles. It was pretty awesome. It was such a cute little town. It reminded me of something you would see off of a Disney movie. I loved it!! We also went to Munich. We went to were Hitler had his first meeting with the Nazis. And we went to the Hard Rock. We took a bike tour all over Munich. It was so cool. They take biking very serious there. We went to a beer garden. They had the best food. We got Brats, a giant pretzel and more yummy food. It was such a clean country. I loved it there. I want to go back.
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| Castle |
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| St. Goar / Rhine Valley |
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| Notice the castle in the background |
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| At the castle we basically hiked to |
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| Castle |
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| Munich |
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| Bike Tour |
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| Munich |
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| Beer Gardens |
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| Food Heaven |
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| Munich |
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| I loved St. Goar |
Thats it for now: Next update, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France.
