Top Five Tuesday-ish

We are home!

Buena Sera and Gratzi!!!!
Prego and Canolli!!!

I am too tired to do a real TOp Five Tuesday... so I decided to come up with the Top Ten Things I Learned About Europe... That Maybe Other People Knew That I Didn't.

1. The security guys in the airport in Frankfurt involves an overzealous fella with a wand and roaming hands that literally touched and scanned EVERY single inch of my body.

2. Toilets or W.C.'s are interesting for four main reasons. A. Many bathrooms are unisex in public places. B. Almost every single toilet in Europe that we saw was a stall. I only saw two urinals in four different countries. C. These stalls also contained their own sinks in addition to the ones in the main area. D. Almost all toilets had two flush buttons -- one for four liter flushes and one for 10 liter flushes -- you decide!!!

3. The DaVinci Code can be translated into 10 different languages and Nicholas Sparks' books can be in Italian.

4. In terms of soda, they don't have any "Diet" anything. Everything is "Light."

5. In many places, wine is cheaper than soda and water!!!

6. Cover Charges -- Most of the restaurants that we went to charged cover charges and that includes the bread and silverware set up. Wacky.

7. English is everywhere. We had very few no English interactions.

8. Orange juice has gas in Europe. Why is that?

9. In our many many many meals in Italy -- all in different restaurants -- why was the bread different in each of them?

10. You think cars are compact here in America? WOW ARE THEY SMALL IN EUROPE!!!