Introducing my Europe trips 2011

My Europe tour 2011

I'm kinda tired of Taiwan related topics, so I will change my focus for a while now. Well, at least on my main blog. Recently I had the pleasure to spend about 1 month in Europe and really rediscovered my European roots. I love living in Taiwan, I love to travel around the Far East, but good Ol' Europe is not that bad either. I was on two business trips, each about two weeks long, and it was so refreshing to be once again one of the many, speaking the same language and eating the food I used to eat a lot in my past life. I think I didn't eat a tiny grain of rice for one month, but stuffed myself with yummy German bread and delicious Greek pita as much as possible.

I will write travelogues with lots of impressions, tips and beautiful photos, starting with Hamburg, my most northern destination and end with Athens, the most southern city I have visited. Let me tell you, that with the exception of Greece, I speak and understand all languages in the countries I have visited, but interestingly, most of them I have visited for the first time. And the route on the map is not the same I took.

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In recent years Europe's been in the spotlight a lot, usually connected with negative things such as bad economy, currency issues, political turmoil, Angela Merkel. But what I've seen is much more than that. Europe is a very complex entity and there are no simple terms, that would help you to understand this diverse continent and its peoples. All I can do is share bits of this reality, but you have to complete the puzzle by yourself.

My European trail: Hamburg · Düsseldorf · Frankfurt · Basel · Zürich · Munich · Maribor · Zagreb · Belgrade · Skopje · Athens