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European Nonvacation
Some thoughts, collected over the years as I traverse the continent at the bidding of my corporate masters:
1. Le Meridien hotels - huge flat screen TV, hard beds, big clean rooms, fluffy towels, great spas, every inroom amenity I can think of. Dorint hotels - not so much.
2. Swiss women - hugely underrated. Italian women - hugely overrated. Swedish/Danish/Norwegian women - tear up the return ticket.
3. Love the trams. I don't know why, but I do.
4. California wine is great. But European wines (esp. Italian) just ooze centuries of tradition and history and lore. I swear they put them in the wines. Or maybe it was the settings.
5. They just don't build buildings like they used to. Churches, town halls, opera houses, memorials...
6. They have this World Cup thingy coming up - in Germany it's the rage. Anyone know anything about it?
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