Best and Worst Part Vie

Now that I am back, for anyone reading the last of the blogs, here are a few more final best and worst of moments...

Best Confirmation
Germans really do love David Hasselhoff

Worst Example of Engineering
The hotel bed in Frankfurt where the lamp attached to the wall was litterally 4 inches above my head and the light switches for the room were on the headboard. I woke myself up a few times by turning on the lights in the room by accident.

Worst Subway
Frankfurt... I'm pretty sure there was a piece of cheese waiting for us somewhere in that mess

Best Advertising
Cucumber and small tomatoes phallicly arrainged to promote the "health" benefits of veggies

Fun Park Ride Most Likely to Provide an Infection
Bumper boat water at Gorky Park

Best Bus Stop
The one with the homemade donuts... mmmm... dooooonuts...

Most Likely to Cause Cancer
Russia (followed closely by the Frankfurt Airport... riiiight, those are smoke filters...); we now have the lungs of a 60 year-old coal miner with a Marlboro habit

Best Named Skeleton
David... the name for an unknown skeleton that was found in the wreckage of a ship thousands of years ago

Best Name For an Exit
Utfart

Worst Leftover from the Cold War
Old woman on bus that swatted Tommy for trying to help her pick up the bus pass she dropped; this was right after she scoffed at him for offering her his seat

Best International Scam
Brian's slight of hand getting a 5 Euro refund for 5 Euros he didn't actually insert into the metro machine... he swears he didn't mean to do it and let the guy take us to get the refund because he didn't know what he was actually trying to do

Most Quizzical Inventory of a Retailer Based on the Store Name
Christ - seriously - these stores were in Moscow

Countries Where We Broke Down and Ate McDonalds
Russia, Sweden, Germany

Place we almost never eat McDonalds
USA

You may not be able to tell from the blog, but we had a great time and both of us would come back to Estonia and Sweden... particularly when it is warmer and drier. It is hard to describe the trip because the same principle applies to nearly everything we saw, its old, its priceless and was once owned by royalty more than likely. That doesn't mean it wasn't incredible.

We'll have to keep this open as we begin the countdown and planning for next year. Brian has tasked me with finding a female travel partner before then... if any of you know anyone...

Dave