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Europe is at once both fascinating and disappointing.
Its history is layered, generation upon generation, life upon legend, like layers of snow falling until the region can barely hold its weight. On the other hand, the winter-bound European landscape is distinctly wintry and grey, with the cold stone castles towering over the valley villages, and themselves towered over by the sheared peaks of the mountains.
So, really, there are elements of both excitement and disappointment to my trip here. And that's not even counting the rather nasty cold I have, which I have been assured is not bacterial, but for which I am presently dosing myself with copious quantities of lemon-honey hot water.
( but you don't want to hear about my health woes, you want to hear about the tour! )
One of the problems with the tour is that it's pretty much a fly-by look at Europe. Even the cities where we stayed for two nights instead of just one - Venezia, Luzern, and Paris - were rushed, because there was so much to do and no time in which to do it!
It definitely whets the tourist appetite, though!
Its history is layered, generation upon generation, life upon legend, like layers of snow falling until the region can barely hold its weight. On the other hand, the winter-bound European landscape is distinctly wintry and grey, with the cold stone castles towering over the valley villages, and themselves towered over by the sheared peaks of the mountains.
So, really, there are elements of both excitement and disappointment to my trip here. And that's not even counting the rather nasty cold I have, which I have been assured is not bacterial, but for which I am presently dosing myself with copious quantities of lemon-honey hot water.
( but you don't want to hear about my health woes, you want to hear about the tour! )
One of the problems with the tour is that it's pretty much a fly-by look at Europe. Even the cities where we stayed for two nights instead of just one - Venezia, Luzern, and Paris - were rushed, because there was so much to do and no time in which to do it!
It definitely whets the tourist appetite, though!
