Saturday, October 11, 2025

impressions: Europe

countries we visited:
no menstrual products in restrooms 
few usb charging ports
each person gets their own pizza
fork and knife pizza

Barcelona
primitive graffiti
catalan is #1
no announcements at airport

Vienna
no customs entering
quiet transit (trains, "buses")
honor system transit
bathrooms like germany - top to bottom doors, toilet brush
bathroom door / occupancy are an issue lol
no menstrual product dispensers
un-obvious sidewalks, so low
blind accessible crosswalk
expensive, $ even for some churches
clean

Bratislava
lots of youth out at night
different architecture
wery walkable old town
 in hotel room
frequent transit at least on old town
more uphill than downhill, lol
restaurants open at noon
self seating at restaurants
portion weight, drink size in ml
salad comes after pizza
bidet / towel warmer in hotel room
sanitary bags in restrooms, even hotel restroom
clean

Budapest
baths
bit more run down
mostly honor system transit
more pressed penny machines
more panhandlers
more smokers
many trash cans
narrow transit seats
paid restrooms - can use cc

Croatia
Very salty breads
Fluffier pizza dough / crusts
Actual queen beds

   Split
   rubber ducky shops (whole shops! why?!)
   electric cart things that people stand in the front of to maneuver 

   Dubrovnik
   super clear water
   too many tourists, sheesh

Ireland
roundabouts everywhere
friendly

   Belfast
   yellow light flash before turning green
   walk indicators on same side street

   Dublin
   lots of immigrants, but still very predominantly white
   all double decker buses
   a lot of puke in the ground
   towel warmer in hotel bathrooms
   more homeless
   beer culture


Commonly advertised drinks everywhere we went (ireland excluded, lol):
Aperol spritz, campari, hugo
tequila sunrise, negroni, cibra libre, gin tonic, long island iced tea, mojito,

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