Goodbye Europe

We got up casually this morning to get ready to go home. Our flight wasn't until four in the afternoon but I know we all kind of wanted to get going and have plenty of time to deal with any thing that came about. We had a quick breakfast, checked out and were on our way. We took the tube to Heathrow Terminal 5 which was very easy to use and we got there surprisingly quickly. One thing I am very jealous of with European cities is that everywhere we went there was fantastic public transportation. Once we arrived at Heathrow we were informed that you could only check in three hours in advance which meant that we had over an hour to kill. We decided to get a snack at a cafe in the terminal that may very well be the most expensive breakfasts we will ever have in our lives. It actually wasn't that bad but for what little we got it was pretty pricey, once for being in an airport and twice for using Pounds. After checking in we spent the rest of the time perusing the shops and duty free stores scattered throughout the waiting areas.

So all throughout our trip we heard two songs quite a bit. One was Big Girl (You are beautiful) by Mika. The other is American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West. I have included the song with video on the right. The latter song we heard so much that it became our European theme song and fittingly heard it at the electronics store next to our departure gate. Take a chance to listen to it. It was fairly catchy and man did we hear it in Switzerland, France and England. Is it played so much in the States?

On our flight back I tried to remember all of the cool things we did throughout the trip like pasta and Gelato in Venice, Fondue and prosecco in Switzerland, Bangers and Mash and Fish and Chips in London and thought to myself, a lot of the experiences were around food. I am a big fan of the food and love that that is how I like to experience culture. I also enjoyed how they served us two meals on the plane and it was almost all you can drink wine.

People always ask what the best part of the trip was and I tend to copy Dave and say the race in Rapperswil. I don't ever want to forget the cows with huge bells on the climbs (I don't need more cowbell) or the lady who I saw eating an awesome looking icre cream dessert at a cafe on the way up to the "Stairways to Heaven." There was also a cool team camaraderie that I may never experience again. I especially enjoyed all of the worldly historical monuments that we visited. I'm not the biggest history guy so hearing about Napoleon and the relationship the French had with Great Britain was very interesting. I'm sure you can school me more on it later.

Thanks for reading about the trip. I hope you find it entertaining in some way.