Austria

[creekster]

I was a superbly conditioned athlete in high school. Greecy food was out of the question.

No baclava for you!

[wally]

I can still recall my visit there and I was a Jr. in High School We (my uncle and I) had driven down from Paris. The cliff's the beaches and then the rows and rows of crosses.

It was during the Viet Nam war and a lot of the French would come up to us and start on us for being in Viet Nam. Before visiting Normandy I would try and ignore them. After visiting Normandy I would tell them they were ingrates and they should be kissing Americans butts for saving theirs.


Good thread by the way. Thanks for starting it.

I posted this on Facebook near the end of our trip:

Since SU isn't here to do so, I will remind both of you that if it weren't for Hitler's hubris and 1 million dead Russian soldiers following the siege of Leningrad for three years prior to storming the French beaches, Normandy would likely be called NewAdolphsville or something today. There probably wouldn't be any monuments. So really, in a round about way, Russia saved the Frenchies and our butts by taking the bulk of the shrapnel. So really we are the ingrates and how dare we criticize Putin Re:Ukraine!!!

* this post to be read with part of your tongue in your cheek!

[byu71]

I assume you mean "butt" cheek, because someone's head is up their butt.

[mtnbiker]

I think I said biggest dissapointment. My guess is that since you are surprised at that statement, you haven't been to the French Riviera.

Anyone here go to the French Riviera for the first time and not have been highly dissapointed?

So why was the French Riviera a disappointment? You went expecting to see playboy models at nude beaches and only saw a bunch of naked fat guys?

[LA Ute]

Since SU isn't here to do so, I will remind both of you that if it weren't for Hitler's hubris and 1 million dead Russian soldiers following the siege of Leningrad for three years prior to storming the French beaches, Normandy would likely be called NewAdolphsville or something today. There probably wouldn't be any monuments. So really, in a round about way, Russia saved the Frenchies and our butts by taking the bulk of the shrapnel. So really we are the ingrates and how dare we criticize Putin Re:Ukraine!!!

* this post to be read with part of your tongue in your cheek!

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[byu71]

So why was the French Riviera a disappointment? You went expecting to see playboy models at nude beaches and only saw a bunch of naked fat guys?

NO and get yer mind out of the gutter or at least respect how pure my thoughts are.

The dissapointment was I was expecting beautiful white sandy beaches. Instead the beaches were like walking along a gravel road.

[happyone]

I loved Austria when I was there in the early 70's. We went to Berchtesgaden every year we were there ( the church held a religious retreat there for all the LDS servicemen ) and we always went to to Salzberg. We also went ot Innsbruck, didn't get to Vienna tho

[Omaha 680]

No baclava for you!