We arrived home from Europe last night after a HELLISHLY long plane ride. It involved waking up at 0445 in order to check out of the hotel in Frankfurt at 0500. Our flight was at 0720 or something like that. Then it was two hours to London-Heathrow airport. We had a 2.5 hr layover (thank goodness... we had to change terminals and such and that took FOREVER). Then it was a long long long plane flight back to Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
The plane from London to Raleigh wasn't too crowded so I had a two-seat row to myself. Thus I was able to grab a little bit of sleep in between watching the in flight movies of Marley and Me, and Get Smart.
Customs is very annoying in Raleigh, and the line was sort of long. >< but we got through ok, and were happily welcomed home into the United States.
After picking up the car from a friend's, it was a pretty long drive home to Virginia. I tried to stay awake since we would be driving into deer country in the dusk, but motor vehicles make me really sleepy.
It was an absolutely GREAT trip, and it took the right amount of time. At the end we were definitely ready to come home.
Highlights:
-All the castles
-Obersalzburg/Eagles Nest
- watching the interaction between the guys selling eiffel tower souvenirs and the police.
- the TGV train and the RailJet train
- Luxembourg
- mountains rising out of the edges of lakes
Lowlights
- lack of REAL pillows
- overnight train bunks.
- being a 'tourist' and getting overcharged for it
- cold cloudy weather in Paris
- rude people on the slow trains in the Rhine
- waking up at 0445 to come home
- missing home
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