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06Jun08

So I’ve decided to start writing stuff, so maybe I can look back someday and say, “hey cool I know what I was thinking back then.” One thing I’ve been meaning to do is write about my recent excursion across the Atlantic. However, seeing as I’m not quite the wordsmith I hope to one day be, I’ve decided to leave pictures with some witty captions. Enjoy.

Leiden, Netherlands. A small college town connected by a series of channels and canals. This was perhaps the most incredible place to drink on the entire trip. At one bar a local girl told us filthy Americans to “GO HOME!” amazing. I discovered that I love women and beer from Holland.

We found ourselves lucky enough to be in the scenic town of Leiden on day when it was snowing. So naturally I gathered all the snow I could find and launched it Ali Haeri, and he captured it perfectly, it also hit him.

Berlin was amazing. Literally it was like LA after a technological revolution. They had free internet booths on the streets…which we didn’t realize until after paying for internet at dunkin’ donuts. We went to the biggest club I’ve ever been to in my life, and ate incredible meat and sausage. I love Berlin. Beer was good too.

Also, Ali decided to show Berlin how much we love the USA, there are good 5 or 6 of these throughout Europe.

Because we’re cool and cheap we traveled by train. This is what I spent pretty much every hour on the train doing. Best train moment: Leaving Amsterdam, entering Germany, German Police enter the train…ask me “Have you smoked any drugs or brought any drugs into the country with you…”. After questioning I immediately dumped my blunt case into the trash in the bathroom.

This is what they thought of me sleeping all the time.

Paris. The “Arc De Triumph”. So about after about 30 minutes of wandering through France we stumbled upon this brilliant thing. We thought it was the Arc de Triomphe, but turns out it was just a regular ass street. As my friend Ali so wonderfully put it “it’s like baldwin avenue for them.”

We had to do the tourist thing and visit the Louvre. It was cool. We saw the Mona Lisa. Like typical Americans we stayed only an hour…we actually spent more time at pizza hut that day than at the Louvre.

I didn’t add a picture of the Eiffel Tower itself, because everyone’s seen it. How many cool guys have a blurry ass picture of themselves at the top of the tower? Haha, we didn’t even ask the guy to take another one.

Notre Dame. Went in, prayed looked around. Pretty cool.

This was taken in front of the local Church in Paris. Yeah they do it real big there as Ali would say. I took this same picture in about 4 different countries.

I thought this picture pretty much summed up my trip. We drank every night, had no worries, and it was great. Paris was my favorite city of all. Ironically enough, the friendliest human beings we met were in Paris. So fuck all that French people are rude stuff. There are some cool ass people there. I can’t wait to go back.

In summation, I lost my camera in Europe, so I must credit the legend himself Ali “rides girls bikes” Haeri, for all the pictures. However! A hostel I stayed at has my camera and are currently sending it back to me. So I will update with the lost part of my journey when i receive it.

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Tags: Being Cool, Drinking, Europe