Our first trip to Europe was a roaring success. It was Parky’s first trip out of this time zone and also the first trip where she had to rely on me for the language. We have traveled to where neither of us speak the language, she also took a little while getting a handle on my family’s Ozzie English, but this was our first time immersed in a language in which I am fluent and of which she knows less than 10 words. She asked me to confirm that “Guten Tag” was in fact the German “Hello” greeting, which I did. But I felt it my duty to bring her into contact with the local dialect, the standard greeting there being “Schoene Titten”. At the airport she greeted Maxi thusly and was warmed when he replied with a hearty English “Thank you”. In the carpark in front of Maxi’s house she greeted another friend, Micha. He beamed a smile at her, and at me, and responded with “Thank you. To you, too.” With each greeting Parky became surer and surer of her German ability and had less and less concern that I might have taught her something silly, for example “Nice Tits”! Which, in point of fact, was exactly what I had taught her. It just became funnier and funnier with every subsequent introduction until I had to put a stop to it as she started to meet people too old or too young to be in on the joke. The top of the joke though, in my opinion, is that even after learning the true meaning of the phrase she still used it to greet almost everyone she met between the ages of 18 and 40 for the entire duration of the trip.
Lake Geneva
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Dijon
PARIS
Moselle ~ Strasbourg
Euro Beers
Due to an unfortunate tape mix-up, we accidentally taped over the first video which included Mannheim, Heidelberg, Munich, Lake Constance and our drive over the Schwaigeralpen Pass in Switzerland. Sucks, that does. But here is Liechtenstein and into the Austrian Alps.
Schaan (Liechtenstein) - Zuoz (Switzerland)
Zernez - Schluderno
The British car programme "Top Gear" did a section called "The 10 Most Beautiful Roads in the World". This was Number 1.
Merano - Jaufenpass - Lindau
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