Currently Listening Pump It Up By Danzel If you're not down with Danzel, you must not be European. see related

Here are captions for my favorite pictures (mostly because they feature me):

Absolute Danny is the name of an "unusual clothing" store in Amsterdam. Even the Europeans know about the legend of the Captain.

I'm avoiding airplanes on the runway at Berlin Schoenefeld. Apparently, the pilots are too lazy to pull up to the tunnel, so you have to walk to the terminal by cutting through the field.

Train station in Antwerp, Belgium after our first night in Amsterdam. First thing I thought was, "Wow, such beautiful architecture." Second thing I thought was, "What the fuck happened last night?"

The Berlin Wall. Apparently, the Germans were really, really, ridiculously short back in those days.

This part of the Berlin Wall was built for the taller Germans. There is a lot of cool graffiti on it. They had to build a fence around the Berlin Wall to prevent vandals from breaking off pieces. How ironic.

One of the many Beer Gardens in Germany. This one was on our Berlin Bike Tour. A Beer Garden is where you go to eat meat and drink beer. That's all that people do in Germany. German food was by the far the best that we had on our European trip. They eat slabs of pork, potatoes, and sausages with their beer. These were a cool group of guys we hung out with on the Bike Tour as well as the Pub Crawl.

Carpe Diem in Madrid, Spain. This is probably an 18+ club because of the drinking age in Europe. This one's for you, Newton!

Did you know? Smoking kills and smokers die younger! Holy shit, if I didn't visit the Duty Free shop at Madrid Barajas Airport, I never would have known. When we were trying to take a picture of this, one of the workers came over and said that we weren't allowed to take pictures in the store. We did it anyway, bitch!

Me putting it down on the Wheels of Steel at the Heinekin Experience in Amsterdam. This is a former brewery that they turned into a tourist attraction. The Heinekin beer here is so much sweeter and tastier than the imported version. We did this the first thing in the morning, so we had three beers for breakfast.

Don kicking it with Marx and Engels in Berlin.

Duvel is the bomb ass beer in Belgium. They serve it to you in the chalice bomb cup no matter where you buy it. This sucker has something like 10% alcoholic content.

Street Thugs patrolling the streets of downtoan Antwerp, Belgium. When walking by them, we had to avert our glances or else they would have shanked us.

Some store in Barcelona, Spain with the word 'pirates' on it. I had no idea why this was written on the window, but that didn't stop me from taking a picture underneath.

Sissy-Boy Mannen, clothing store for Lance (All Lance jokes are courtesy of Don, btw).

Not only does Germany have great food, but they also serve their beers in Stein glasses. That's 1.0 Liter of drunk juice, motherfucker! We are pictured drinking this on a pub crawl in Munich Germany, but we tried to have these whenever possible. German grandmothers were spotted at the HoffBrau Haus drinking beer in Steins. That's how they do it. HoffBrau Haus is the must-see tourist spot for drinkers. It's basically a beer palace.

USA Satan! graffiti. I guess this is how people in Belgium express their love of America.

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Day 15 - Amsterdam, Netherlands

This is our second stint in wonderful Amsterdam as well as the last leg of our Europe Trip. There has just been so much crazy shit to see and people to meet, I wish I had kept a paper journal to remember it all. The weather here is awesome! It has been slightly drizzling since we arrived here last night. The sun finally came out around 4pm. We spent most of today doing the Heinekin Experience and buying shit for people. I had three Heinekin Beers for breakfast this morning. Sweet. There is so much funny shit in Europe, I wish that I could have brought all my friends along, so that they could have heard me make fun of everything. Hopefully, I will be able to explain it all when I get back.

I have been drinking for about 16 straight days now, starting on the Thursday night before we left. I can't believe I have hung this long. Only one more night of drinking to go! It's like college all over again. My liver is almost dead. When I get back, I will probably have to drink with people who want to hear about the trip... Good luck to me. I think I need a vacation from my vacation.

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Day 12 - Madrid, Spain

Spain is fucking hot. I need a drink of water. A couple days ago, in Barcelona, we were hanging out and having lunch at a nude beach when we spotted a man with a lower back tattoo. Dweezy calls this the Mark of the Whore. Hahaha! I´m all for it, but only on girls. What guy gets a lower back tattoo? Maybe Lance would....

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Currently Listening Monkey Business By Black Eyed Peas dont phunk with my heart see related

we are now in madrid.  today everyone seems to be quite anxious about the announcement of the site for the 2012 summer olympics, since madrid is a candidate.  the olympic committee stuff has been on almost all the stations for hours.  spain is fun! we wake up get ready and go eat and run our errands.  then at around 2pm everything closes.  around 6pm things begin to open up.  9pm bars begin to open.  midnight, clubs open.  then these places close at 3-4am!!! but the old soldiers that eddie and i are, we head home at about 2am because we start drinking at 9pm.  theres nothing to do in a hot hotel room besides watching desperetivo novias y los simpsons.

barcelona: a pretty large party town and tourist town.  theres this huuuge church that they are building.  currently, they are on the 120th year of working on this thing.  only a total 40 people are working on it and plan to have it done in about 100 years.  i dont think its going to happen in only 100 years.  this thing is massive though.  we found a cozy irish pub in barcelona with cheap drinks that we spent most of our drinking time at.  then on the last night there we moved on over to a bar inside the wax museum. it was all rainforest cafe like.  i try not to bring up politics too much, but it just happens.  everyone european person we have met (including the english) are totally against the war.  a good amount of the people we met from the states felt the same.  interesting how it seems only about the 54% of people who voted are pro war in iraq and they are the ones who have decided the fate of the world.

on another note, spain is not too bad for us because my spanish is pretty good.  its getting better too.  unfortunately we are leaving tomorrow morning to berlin then to amsterdam.  but in berlin and amsterdam, they are quite fluent in english.