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Needless to say, I am Jelly AF. Love that city.
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Desertbreh wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:29 pm Needless to say, I am Jelly AF. Love that city.
Go back! :iono:
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wap wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2017 2:20 pm
Desertbreh wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:29 pm Needless to say, I am Jelly AF. Love that city.
Go back! :iono:
For sure. I plan to be more of a Eurowhore in the coming years.
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Desertbreh wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2017 2:32 pm
wap wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2017 2:20 pm

Go back! :iono:
For sure. I plan to be more of a Eurowhore in the coming years.
:fuckyeah: :doit:

You can make it surprisingly affordable if you're willing to go in off-times, like autumn. This trip will come in under $2500 all in for the 2 of us for 6 nights.
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wap wrote:One night we had dinner in a German tapas place. It served small plates of German food. We ordered 9 and they brought 2 things we didn't order which they let us keep, so we ended up with 11 plates.

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Calvinball wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2017 1:10 pm
wap wrote:One night we had dinner in a German tapas place. It served small plates of German food. We ordered 9 and they brought 2 things we didn't order which they let us keep, so we ended up with 11 plates.

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It was a very cool experience and the food and beer were dynamite.
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More pics in a moment.
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On Friday we went to Potsdam. There are a couple of neat Baroque palaces there.
First one we visited was Neues Palais, built in the 1760's. It's now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Across from the Neues, from where I took the above picture, is The Communs, so called because it was where the kitchens were and the servants who worked at the Neues lived there, too.
It's now used by the University of Potsdam.
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The other palace we visited in Potsdam was the Sanssouci, which means "without care" in French. It was small as it was meant to be just a summer palace of Frederick the Great.
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Last pic is of our last beers on our last night. We had a very nice dinner in Potsdam and drank this.
Wife's was unusual. It was beer with Fanta, and was surprisingly delicious. My awesome dark is on the right.
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wap wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2017 9:29 pm Last pic is of our last beers on our last night. We had a very nice dinner in Potsdam and drank this.
Wife's was unusual. It was beer with Fanta, and was surprisingly delicious. My awesome dark is on the right.
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beer with fanta you say? Hopefully i'll find one during my layover in Frankfurt when I visit Turkey.
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 1:31 pm
wap wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2017 9:29 pm Last pic is of our last beers on our last night. We had a very nice dinner in Potsdam and drank this.
Wife's was unusual. It was beer with Fanta, and was surprisingly delicious. My awesome dark is on the right.
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beer with fanta you say? Hopefully i'll find one during my layover in Frankfurt when I visit Turkey.
Yea, you know the Euro Fanta that tastes more orangey than our stuff here. It was really good.
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wap wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:25 pm
MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 1:31 pm

beer with fanta you say? Hopefully i'll find one during my layover in Frankfurt when I visit Turkey.
Yea, you know the Euro Fanta that tastes more orangey than our stuff here. It was really good.
I know it, I rarely drink the Fanta here.

dat real cane sugar
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:27 pm
wap wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:25 pm

Yea, you know the Euro Fanta that tastes more orangey than our stuff here. It was really good.
I know it, I rarely drink the Fanta here.

dat real cane sugar
Yup!
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wap wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:34 pm
MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:27 pm

I know it, I rarely drink the Fanta here.

dat real cane sugar
Yup!
I miss Berlin, they also have a turkish town too and a really nice restaurant that made me feel right at home. But it's kind of a :mahtroy: area, I even smelt weed there too.
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:12 pm
wap wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:34 pm

Yup!
I miss Berlin, they also have a turkish town too and a really nice restaurant that made me feel right at home. But it's kind of a :mahtroy: area, I even smelt weed there too.
:lol:
I saw a few obvious Middle Eastern folks, and some Africans, and heard a lot of languages, lots of Russian, Chinese, some Polish, Greek, Spanish, etc. It seemed like a pretty well integrated city, which was nice.
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MexicanYarisTK wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:12 pm I miss Berlin, they also have a turkish town too and a really nice restaurant that made me feel right at home. But it's kind of a :mahtroy: area, I even smelt weed there too.
:lol:
I saw a few obvious Middle Eastern folks, and some Africans, and heard a lot of languages, lots of Russian, Chinese, some Polish, Greek, Spanish, etc. It seemed like a pretty well integrated city, which was nice.
They’re being part of europe now :lol: I remember in Germany I have seen Spain, Italy plates as well. But yes, lot of asian tourists visit there too.


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Gotta get pics up Switzerland posted up here. Been busy as fuck lately, :doe: :disappoint:
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Fuck it.
I'll start with a couple pics of Zurich, which has a :neat: old town, dominated by the Grossmunster, a Romanesque church. Construction began around the year 1100, so it predates the Gothic style, which is pretty :impressive:
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This is St. Peter's church, famous for it's 28 ft diameter clock.
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Here's a few shots of Zurich from the top of one of the towers of the Gross Munster (190 steps to the top), with Lake Zurich visible in the 3rd pic, and a shot of the Gross Munster at night.
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I'll try to get some pics of Lucerne up tomorrow. We took a day trip there and liked it so much we went back the next day, which was easy to do since we bought Swiss rail passes that gave us unlimited access to their inter-city trains, inner-city trains, subways, trams, buses, and boat networks, and free admission to something like 500 museums across the country. Well worth the money.
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Lucerne was a 5/7 city with a :neat: old town. It's an easy train ride from Zurich.
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There's a cool Transportation museum in Lucerne.
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