Summer Superlatives

Best City:
C- Innsbruck
J- Innsbruck

Best Food:
C- Sacher Torte from Spar Gourment in Vienna
J- Pizza in Rome with UD and AC

Worst Food:
C- Pizza (actually Paprika) flavored Cheetos
J- None

Best Hotel:
C- Unie Pension, Prague
J- Hostel St Nicholaus, Innsbruck

Most fun activity:
C- Hiking in the Alps
J- Hiking on the glacier

Most dissapointing activity:
C- House of Musik, Vienna
J- Same

Greatest annoyance:
C- People not speaking English
J- Rude Germanic people

Biggest thing we miss about home (Tala does not count):
C- Salad
J- Public restrooms and cheap coke (tie)

#1 thing to change for next time:
C- Longer in smaller towns, shorter in big cities
J- Fewer places, more time in each (particulary small towns)

Biggest waste of money:
C- Train tickets we didnt use because I got sick
J- Vaportetto tickets in Venice (expensive and they never check!)

Moment when I wanted to go home the most:
C- Sick the the couchette on way to Prague (when it was about 100 degrees, cramped, and dirty)
J- Lost in rain trying to find hostel in Prague and Carrie was sick and miserable from the above train trip

Moment when I wanted to move to Europe:
C- On top of mountain in Austria
J- Whole time in Innsbruck

Biggest surprise (good):
C- None (I have been here before)
J- How nice Venice was

Biggest surprise (bad):
C- How much the Euro has made everything so expensive
J- Lack of vegetarian food other than pizza, which I hope to never eat again

Best thing Europe has that America doesnt:
C- Interest and involvement in rest of world (without a big stick)
J- Seamless public transit (maybe this is just LA)

Place we would visit if we had another week:
C- Switzerland
J- Tunisia or Morocco or Turkey