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Posted By: elheffe
Activity: Sightseeing
Country: Germany
City: Frankfurt
May, 2007

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 From the Main Station or Airport, you can get everywhere in Europe. Frankfurt is the central hub of all Europe! The people are exceedingly helpful and friendly.
Posted By: elheffe
Activity: Sightseeing
Country: Malaysia
City: Kuala Lumpur
March, 2007

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 KL is a beautiful city! Clean and friendly towards visitors. Traveling by car or taxi is sometimes required resulting in a messy jam during rush hour. The food is very wonderful. Everything is worth trying!
Posted By: elheffe
Activity: Sightseeing
Country: Czech Republic
City: Prague
May, 2007

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 I love Museum Square! The city is a vibrant overload of bohemian archicture, style and art. And is reflected in the civic lives of every Czech. Yet marred by the new flux of drunken hooligans looking for a cheap thrill. Further opening to the EU may bring more pain than relief. Watch out for Taxi drivers! The subway is better and efficient.
Posted By: elheffe
Activity: Sightseeing
Country: Netherlands
City: Amsterdam
May, 2007

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 Amsterdam is great. The city is well kempt. Locals ride bicycles everywhere. This is my second time here. My favorite activity was wandering through the residential neighborhoods. The homes and architectures are so beautiful set around the various canals. Buses are very convenient.
Posted By: elheffe
Activity: Sightseeing
Country: Italy
City: Roma
Vatican City
April, 2007

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 Do all Italians so despise all the tourists who bring so much money to their delapidated country? The cafes are so overpriced. The help, well, less than helpful. Maybe it's not Disneyland, but they could sure take a lesson from a little Mickey Mouse.
Posted By: zoetemintje
Activity: Sightseeing
State: Arizona
City: Grand Canyon
hopi reservation in NE arizona
September, 2007

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 When the Grand Canyon trip was over,the Petersons and I went to see the Annual Social Dance in the Hopi Reservation. We took 89S and then 264E to the Second Mesa where the festivities took place in their kivas. All the Hopis and cute children wore traditional costume,lots of turquoise jewelry, fox hides attached to mens behind, women with cut-out symbol boards on their head. They all danced behind one another in a circle to the sound of drums and men chanting. Wow,with the indians and the mesas, the buttes,the big sun and that sandy arid desert I thought I was in a foreign country.Worth a trip
Posted By: zoetemintje
Activity: Sightseeing
State: Hawaii
City: Poipu
Kauai island
June, 2007

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 spent 4 days on Kauai. Rented nr.825 in Nihi Kai Villas in Poipu.Sleeps 4.nice grounds for the money. $400/night.view of pacific, mountains,clean, not dark. full kitchen. tennis courts and pleasant swimming pool. Went on 1 hr helicopter tour with Kauai Air out of Lihue.219$. Wished I flew out of Port Allen to avoid leaving and returning over disappointing flat area of Kauai. Magnificent Waimea Canyon, Na Pali Coast- looking in from sea and inside walls. Circling around waterfalls of Waialeale Crater. Request that they fly in canyons,not on top. Sat right to pilot. Best seat, somewhat scary.
Posted By: zoetemintje
Activity: Sightseeing
State: Southern France
City: Avignon
uzes
May, 2007

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 May: 30 M. west of Avignon is Uzes. Overnighted at Mercure, 125$ . Population is 9,000 but with all the tourists the center is filled. Loads of people visit this intimate medieval town where 12th to 18th century white stone houses face narrow cobbled streets. Many outdoor cafes and restaurants because of sunny May climate. Since it is touristy and 60 miles from the Mediterrannean sea it is also more expensive. A must, must for those who love to see, smell and buy is the famous classy saturday open market thru town streets. Come before 8 am because parking is difficult. Provence items to buy.
Posted By: zoetemintje
Activity: Sightseeing
State: Southern France
City: Clermont-Ferrand
le bourbonnais
May, 2007

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 With car thru France where most visitors don't go. The "Bourbonnais" is a rolling green sparsely populated region in central France where economy is not developed. Land of big white cows. X/XIII century old castles located in little villages or seen far in immense fields. Many castles can be visited. Not much happens in region. Rivers, camping, cheap sleeping, 2$ bottle wine, yammy food. Capital: Moulins, 26,000 pop.city. Has nice church of Holy Heart with bright colored windows and medieval flemish type triptych in side chapel (only open pm). Eat lunch under the Belfry. Worth a 6 hour visit.
Posted By: zoetemintje
Activity: Sightseeing
State: Southern France
City: Nîmes
bull fighting
May, 2007

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 Last week-end of May Nimes'bull fighting feria is the biggest in Europe.Went to see with Philippe and Francoise G. an evening performance in its Roman Amphitheatre. Six bulls each weighing 500 kilos are to be killed. Three matadors each kill two bulls. I find it rather gory and sad that these vibrant,innocent beasts are going to die because the fight is uneven with the picador and matador always winning. But there must be something in this sport because 20,000 spectators were applauding it. Young bulls also run in the streets excited by cute running men. There is a fair and merry go arounds.