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Welcome to the Europe Travel Stories. Within these pages, you can read selected stories and musings about our waterfall-themed adventures in Europe. Hopefully, you'll find these stories entertaining and educational. Perhaps you might get a good laugh at our expense, or you might find some nuggets that you can apply to your own travels.

Thumb through the travel stories below. They are arranged chronologically with the most recent escapade at the top. Enjoy :)

Heidiland: As I was busy taking photos of the mess by the station, one guy came up to me and tried to get into my photo. He insisted that I take a photo (blurry as it may) of him, and then asked the usual questions of where you from? Japan? Korea? I told him that I was from the US, in Los Angeles, and he then tried to explain to me that what I was seeing was how the Swiss Celebrate their soccer team beating the supposed #1 team in the world in Spain. He then said, "Don't be scared..." [read more]

Croatian Sensations: In any case, no one wanted to give us change. Even the lady at the souvenir shop didn't want to. The parking enforcement guy was also a bit cheeky and didn't feel like helping us in that regard either other than to write tickets. So we ended up just paying for an hour (that was all we could figure out anyways at the time). And we'd have to come back in an hour just to feed the meter maid once again... [read more]

Never Far From History: ...at that moment, the lady got in front of me and said, "Stop!" "Stop!" she repeated again. "Stop!" she said once more, this time pushing me back. I wasn't sure what this was all about, but I thought we were getting scammed. When Julie rejoined us, that was when the lady finally showed her badge. She was a customs officer... [read more]

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