{"id":12976,"date":"2022-08-27T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12976"},"modified":"2022-08-27T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T02:57:40","slug":"travelogue-europe-in-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12976","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue: Europe in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>July &amp; August 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"610\" data-kale-share-title=\"Travelogue: Europe in Review\" data-kale-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>What a trip, right? I&#8217;ve been dreaming of visiting Europe since I was a teenager and it only took me 37.5 years to make it happen!<\/p>\n<p>Some general thoughts now that I&#8217;ve had time to process it all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lack of ice and air conditioning would be dealbreakers for me.<\/li>\n<li>Ireland had palm trees. I did not expect that!<\/li>\n<li>The trip was mostly great, except for the week that I was sick with a nasty cold (not COVID, I tested)<\/li>\n<li>My favorite: IRELAND. Are you kidding me? IRELAND.<\/li>\n<li>My least favorite: Amsterdam. I think the city leans a little too hard into its vices. The prostitution didn&#8217;t bother me, but the trashy pot culture did. I truly have no judgment if you&#8217;re a marijuana user, but I just didn&#8217;t love the trashy marijuana-themed gift shops that littered the streets.\u00a0 It just attracts a certain crowd and I didn&#8217;t love it. We both thought it was worse than a place like Las Vegas!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve always hated ham &#8212; but when I was sick, my comfort food was ham and cheese sandwiches from Centra (kind of like the Kwik Trips of Ireland). I now love ham. What has happened to me?!<\/li>\n<li>The weather in Ireland was my dream come true &#8212; I think I really could live there.<\/li>\n<li>I did not love having to pay extra for what seemed like everything &#8212; bags, bathrooms, etc.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll never travel to Europe during the summertime again. Nooope. Not doin&#8217; it. Unless it&#8217;s a place like Ireland where you kind of have to go in the summer in order to have decent weather.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an introvert who has many of the HSP (highly sensitive person) qualities &#8212; as a result, many parts of this trip were overwhelming to me: the crowds, the heat, the noise, the unfamiliar <em>everything<\/em>. I truly struggled on many occasions. And I share this because this blog is full of the highlight reels &#8212; but there&#8217;s always more going on behind the scenes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/004-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" data-kale-share-title=\"Travelogue: Europe in Review\" data-kale-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/004-14.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/004-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/004-14-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>My favorite souvenir. I will never not LOL when I see these.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?attachment_id=12979\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/001-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" data-kale-share-title=\"Travelogue: Europe in Review\" data-kale-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/001-14.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/001-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/001-14-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>And here&#8217;s a cool mosaic at O&#8217;Hare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July &amp; August 2002 What a trip, right? I&#8217;ve been dreaming of visiting Europe since I was a teenager and it only took me 37.5 years to make it happen! 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