Full disclosure: I’ve been wanting to travel to Europe since I was fifteen. I bought a guidebook from Costco and combed through the pages, reading about which countries I wanted to visit first and what to see while there. I appreciated and was enamored by every detail, even while realizing half-way through that perhaps Europe is one big Disneyland, at least certain areas. Still, I loved a lot of what I was able to see and experience and it left me wanting to explore more.

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