I love to travel and see new places.  I love to re-visit old places that I've enjoyed! I'm still processing the last 3 weeks.  Surprises - I've never seen so many pizza places as I did in Amsterdam! And Argentine beef restaurants.  One of our favorites was called "CAU" - translation - "cow"! Duh!  Also, you almost never see any one eating at the cafes...plenty of drinking but the eating is done on the move, holding something that can be managed on foot.  I'm very proud of the way we can get around.  Dave is great with maps and I can recognize enough words in enough languages that between the two of us we can manage.  Also, we travel well together.  We spent 14 days in a 180 sq ft room and got along fine.  We quickly found a routine that worked for us in terms of getting started for the day.  Also, we were very good about giving each other space when needed.

What else...lots of smoking (not us)..cigarettes are alive and well in Europe.  In Germany, the beer drinking started early. I was surprised to see how many cafes were full at 9am and beer was on the table!  The food was excellent and very fresh.  I know we over salt food here in America (not at the table) in preservatives, seasonings, etc. but I was shocked the day after we got back and I microwaved some prepared fish for lunch...I couldn't eat it!

Too much more to process...all I can say is it changes you forever!