...butchered languages, timetables, drafty corridors, and waiting benches. Hissing steam, whistles, engineers, track changes, new words, passing friends, grammar, counting to ten in any foreign tongue, windmills, Spinoza, glasnost, Anne Frank, Michelangelo, Czars, Marco Polo, Putin, Charles de Gaulle, perestroika,
Rasputin, Stonehenge, Berlin Wall, francs, Swiss cheese, Pamplona bulls, Pisa, reindeer, Gothic, Koln, Firenze, Dostoevsky, Mussolini, Big Ben, fresh French bread, horse carriages, Lenin, Churchill, Tony Blair, Yuri Gagarin, Mozart, Stalingrad, Budapest, Lisbon, Red Square,
Peugeots, autobahn, Marie Curie, Kiev, Pyrenees, Coliseum, Parthenon, theatres, Oxford, Prague, biere, Cannes, Copernicus, Danube, the Vatican, Ivan the Terrible, Loch Ness, Bach, borscht, Corsica, Madrid, statues, wide gauge, Thames, St. Basil's, espresso, Piva, Gdansk,
Kaliningrad, Chunnel, TGV, drawbridges, platforms, metro, flying buttresses, wandering, operettas, passports, Cambridge, Seine, Black Forest, Monaco, Queen E., Luxembourg, fjords, visas, cigars, Philharmonic, maps, politics, frontiers, providnitsas, wrong stops,
overhead luggage racks, babushkas, kegs, Opals, Edinburgh,
Parc du Mars, goulash, Barcelona, reading lights,
postcards, roubles, free time, groggy wakeups,
experience, Hercules, Catholicism, taiga,
militsia, kilts, kiosks, royalty, customs,
stamps, amphitheaters, monuments,
Zeus, Houses of Parliament,
wild boars, castles, Titans,
Guinness, Artic circle,
post offices, alternatives,
lonely country roads, chicanes,
spring temperatures, Stalin, getting lost,
atlases, choices, fields of mustard, pollution,
Sicily, marks, Palermo, Brugge, mocts, traditional costumes,
tundra, the Highlands, coasts, pictures in clouds, escargot,
cabooses, berets, bathrooms-down-the-hall, Unknown Soldier, icons,
fragrances, zlotys, economy, wildlife, strudel, buses, transfers, Siberia, trams,
Helmut Kole, silent passages, drachmas, stairways, tour de force, dark hills,
Matterhorn, tunnels, Nicholas, sleeping bags, time zones, capitals, villages, coups, chapels,
Jacques Chirac, Euros, Heathrow, presse, The Times, Lockerbie, Euro Disney, cockpits, electrichka, Ladas, cabins, corridors, Tambor, escaliers, Deutschmarks, Knossos, shadowy flickers of daybreak, lamp posts, silence, dachas, liras,
Beethoven, football, shillings, romance, exhaust, Atlantic currents, midi, Gares, industry, diary, journals, flags, colors, backpacks, headphones, Tupolevs, crossing arms, decking, shade, wheatfields, grimy windows, first-class, guilders,
smoldering ashtrays, Gittanes, hanging baskets, creme, bicycle bells, concrete, docksides, airfields, gas pipes, switchbacks, Neige, coal, railcars, ski lifts, desperados, Tuscany, Versailles, ex-pats, abroad, a la mode, fonts, Centre de Defense, Lufthansa, cargo, escapism, products, advertising, homesickness,
Baltikya, pretzels, boulangeries, imports, Bolivar, caviar, conquistadors, accents, dialects, Bolshoi Teatr, hidden splendors, folding maps, dinars, crowns.
I could go on but why...Europe awaits you