End of Journey

We were about 2 hours early at our gate so I went walking and shopping.  Here is a shop that sells stuff from one of my favorite treats, Manner. And Manner ;) did I ever do some shopping:

Escape Room Trip End

This picture may seem weird, but as escape room fanatics, if you see a key in something, you simply want to open it.  This was after all billed as an Escape Trip. 

Summary of Europe Escape Trip

Other than a few small hitches and Rose getting a major cold/flu, this trip went off perfectly.

Our final flight was actually really good with nice Delta Airline Attendants and quite considerate fellow passengers.

Hitch 1: Rose getting sick – it was the worst for her because of the pressure on her ears for the flight with stopover from Copenhagen –> Amsterdam –> Edinburgh. She was crying most of the way but on the second leg, a KLM Attendant, Emily, helped her with some nose drops and warm cloths in cups to put over her ears.

Hitch 2: Taking a bus to save an hour from Biel to Munich and instead getting stuck in a traffic jam and construction which took 90 minutes extra. Shoulda taken the train!

Hitch 3: Limos in Europe – I thought it was a great idea but it was a waste of money and sucked. I canceled the last 3 limos.

Hitch 4: Rail Strike in England. We got hit when the last train from Southampton to London left at 10 PM and we got there at 10:20 expecting to either get the 10:30 or 11 PM train but they were canceled due to the strike. Had to take an Uber to London for 150 pounds (about 180 or $190).

Hitch 5: Me not taking my Green Card with me – held us up in Paris and Atlanta for some minutes but not too bad. I had taken a photo of it.   About 5 months after the trip, I became a U.S. Citizen.

Hitch 6: Only thing lost was our house key and TSA approved padlock for my luggage but it wasn’t locked anyway and I had a spare key hidden.

Hitch 7: Nena concert sucked in Biel because it was a promotion event and was done in Swiss German and acoustics were awful

Hitch 8: Ghost Tour in Vienna was awful and boring. We became ghosts ourselves as we left after an hour of the 2 hour tour.

Stats:

• 11 Countries
• 15 Cities
• 31 Escape Rooms – best rooms were Paris Live Thriller and Amsterdam Catacombs, with second place to The Ring in Copenhagen, all rooms at Skurillum in Hamburg, Vienna’s Going Underground, London’s Secret Studio, all the rooms in Glasgow at Escape Reality, and Psychosis in Munich.
• 3 Concerts
• 5 attractions in London (Madame Tussaud’s, 221 B Baker Street, Shrek Adventure, London Dungeon, and London Eye)
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Other than dropping 4 escape rooms, one which was refunded (Edinburgh) and 3 which I didn’t pay for in advance in Budapest, we did EVERYTHING I scheduled which to me was exciting and to Rose was exhausting.



I could have kept on going but Rose wanted to come home after a week.

She says she’ll go with me again if I keep it down to a week, plus 2 days traveling.

This blog about our Grand European Adventure 2019 is done.