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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Back in the USA!

Erika and I are back in the States now!

We got into London at around 7pm on July 3rd and had one last dinner with our Contiki friends. Saying goodbye was very difficult - we definitely knew we were going to have a great time and see some amazing sights on our trip, but we didn't expect to make the amazing and, hopefully, lifelong friends that we made! You all have been wonderful and we cannot wait to visit you in Australia, and New Zealand, and South Africa, and England... and hope to host you in the States soon!

After leaving dinner we headed to Russel Square Station with Tania and Anthony. We said our goodbyes on the train and then navigated the Tube to Waterloo. From there, we took the train out to Feltham and finally arrived at our hotel, the St. Giles, around 10pm. Exhausted, we quickly got to sleep.

We woke up on the 4th at 5:30AM in order to catch the bus to Heathrow... something that proved quite difficult without pounds. After finding the only working ATM in Feltham, we managed to get to Heathrow almost three hours early and breezed through security.

Both of our flights went very smoothly and we got back in time to catch some great fireworks!

Here are some photos of our final few days - from Munich onwards:

Central Square in Munich
 Erika on our bike tour of Munich
 Surfers in the small river in Munich
 Beautiful Bavarian architecture of Munich
 Bavarian-Gothic church
 Munich Beer Hall night
 The Jewish Memorial at Dachau Concentration Camp
 Bottle-Face: how we spent our time on the bus. Mikey is the reigning champion.
 On the Charles Bridge in Prague
 View from the Charles Bridge to the Prague Castle
 In the Central Square of Old Town, Prague
 The Astronomical Clock in Prague
 Prague
 In the Jewish Quarter in Prague
 The Prague Castle
 View from our paddle boats on the River
 Erika and Simon on our Pub Crawl
 Dresden
 Dresden
 Reconstructed Church at Dresden

 A mural at the East Side Gallery on the Berlin Wall
 At Museum Island in Berlin
 The Brandenburg Gates in Berlin
 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin
 Another view of the memorial and the stellae
 Berlin Wall Memorial
 View of the Death Strip at the Berlin Wall Memorial
 Edam - a small town in the Netherlands where we did a bike tour
 Edam in the Netherlands
 Canals in Amsterdam
 View from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam - go there if you have a chance
 More canals in Amsterdam

Thanks for reading!

-Simon

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