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Random Positivity Thread: Happy Travel Memories (awful.systems)

submitted 2 weeks ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/morewrite@awful.systems

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I've seen a tiny bit of the world and mostly had a good time doing it. I've been camping in the Gila National Forest and gotten on a Japan Railways train going the wrong way and eaten samosas by a canal in Amsterdam.

Where have you visited, and what nice/fun things did you do there?

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

Small thing, but I don't know how I'm going to top the surreality of waking up one morning on a trip to Austria with my high school orchestra to hear the TV playing a German-language kids show doing a puppet version of Monty Python's dead parrot sketch. "Das vogel ist tot" indeed. Mostly I was surprised that I was able to recognize it given my total lack of German language skills beyond counting to 5 and saying "I'm sorry, I'm a foreigner and don't speak German" because sometimes the American stereotypes are absolutely true.

Overall I actually had a lot of fun on that trip, and got to be absolutely insufferable about having been to Europe when I got back. See again, American stereotypes.