Hello All...

EuroCandy here. We hope everyone is doing well. While we were waiting to get tickets to get into Versailles Palace today, I started thinking and began to make a list of things that you probablly should know before traveling to Europe with friends, family....or anyone for that matter. While we here have gotten along famously, we are not without our faults - nor are the people with whom we have interacted or whose territory we have encroached upon.

10) Directions- Directions are a great thing, especially if they are good directions and the person/people following them is moderately intelligent and not, lets say,dead. I am a firm believor in technology and the iPhone, but, there is a limit. The iPhone does not and cannot give us diretions to everywhere we want and need to go. We have been lost and found on this trip. We have been found and lost on this trip. And, we are all men (and I use that term, well, I'm using my own discretion). But for the love of God, we should stop and ask people more often. They are more than willing to help. Next...

9)Cobblestone Streets - The architecture of each city has been incredible. It has been full of history, telling story after story. Each city filled with their own unique brand of cobblestone streets and sidewalks - each of them telling their own story and relentlessly holding onto the time when they were created. Really? OMG!!! I've had it with those streets and sidewalks. My feet are eff'in killing me. Ladies, WEAR NO HEELS!!! Leave the Gucci, Pucci and Fiorucci at home. Invest in a great pair of skips. I'm serious. After almost three weeks of that stuff, my dogs are killing me. It's cute.....quaint even, for the first 16 days, and I'm over it. But, I digress

8)Over-sized Bath Towels - We, in the states, are often criticized for our over-indulgence. But one thing I will never back down from is our over-sized bath towels....something the Germans, Czechs, and Itlalians have yet to embrace. While from time to time, I enjoy covering myself with a fig leaf or two as much as the next guy, well, lets just say it gets old after a while. Call us fat....lazy....and slow....but people of the world, never ye mock the graciousness and wonderousness of the oversized bathtowel, and never again will I take it for granted....the over-sizedbath towel rules.

The countdown will continue later.....time for bed.

Up next......

7) Bavarian Beer, Leiderhausen and Durndls

6) Trip Frustrations

5) McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza

-EuroCandy