my last 17 days in europe...

Ended with a bang! I continued my travels, met up with some old friends, and made lots of new ones.

I went to Dachau Memorial, which is outside of Munich. I'm glad I went, but for some reason it wasn't nearly as emotional for me as the Anne Frank House (where I literally cried through the last one-third of the museum).


Here I am with my CS host, Martina, after we cooked dinner together.


And here's the famous Mirabell Garden (where the Trapp kids sing "Doe a Deer" in the Sound of Music).


Then I headed to Vienna...







Then to Innsbruck, which is a small town in the center of lots of snow-capped mountains. The scenery was gorgeous.


Eating typical Styrian food with Veronika and Vero halfway up the mountain


Veronika's village, Götzens, was so so so cute.


Then I stopped for a night in Zurich, where I had a bizarre experience at a bar/club that the bankers to go. It turned out to be fun, though. After that was 5 beautiful days in Paris.

My hands-down favorite spot in Paris


No trip to Paris is complete without some crepe...


or going to the Seine...


or seeing the Arc de Triomphe.


Then I went to Cologne where I stayed with my friend Pola. Here we are eating yummy Turkish food.


I also really enjoyed the one day I had in Hamburg


My last day, I sprinted to the dock in Koblenz and arrived in the knick of time for the KD Rhine ferry/cruise/boat. Someone actually mentioned that she saw me running onto the pier with my backpack, purse, and plastic bag of shopping. But it was worth it!