Pbase photos - http://www.pbase.com/johnhudson/johns_trip_to_europe

Flickr photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnhudsonphoto/sets/72157616146560114/

For now, here are some statistics about my trip. I think we all love some good stats every once in a while right? Right.

John's Europe trip:

- 24 days
- 8 cities
- 230,266 steps walked, 108 miles walked, 6180 calories burned!
- daily average of 10,456 steps, 5 miles, and 281 calories burned from walking.
- over 10,000 photos taken, averaging over 400 per day
- 15 flights on 10 airlines, totaling 12,851 miles on 7 different types of aircraft
- 5 books read, 2867 pages, an average of about 120 pgs per day (although I usually read each book in about a day and a half while traveling)

Another interesting link is my flightmemory page, which you can see here. I do love keeping track of these kinds of statistics. While my page is not that impressive in the grand scheme of things, its shaping up nicely.



Some final thoughts on the europe trip:

I will get a lot of the "how was europe" questions. I would prefer specific questions so I can give specific answers. Instead of saying how was Europe, ask me what were the taxis like in Germany, or something like that.

Europe is a great place to visit. Lots of interesting things to see and do. Tons of history. Overwhelming really. That being said I am glad I live in America. Europe is not somewhere I would want to live for any extended amount of time. It is too crowded, busy, loud, complicated, and generally just a pain to deal with long term.

Since I will probably get asked what my favorite places were, here they are in order, although its hard to make a list like this, and I really enjoyed every place I was.

1. Venice
2. Cologne
3. Rome
4. Barcelona
5. Madrid.
6. Malta
7. Mallorca
8. Bucharest

Don't ask me why the list is the way it is, it was a gut reaction.

I will do my best to get some photos edited and placed on the internet in a manner that is easy to navigate. Check back in a few days for that. Thank you for following this blog and for the comments as I was traveling. It was nice to know that people were keeping up with me as I was traveling.

I think despite the various setbacks that inevitably occured along the way, things went fairly well overall. I accomplished almost everything we set out to do for work, and was able to see a lot of interesting things and take some fairly decent photos for myself along the way. All in all a successful trip.