Happy Easter
(also updated on the bottom)

The title is the name of the Village, I'm right now.
This place, placed in Germany and close to the French and Swiss border is great A lot of nice parks are around here, with the main one being the Europapark.
'Till now, we where twice in said park - the largest in Germany - which is organized in "Lands":
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
Netherlands & "Chocoland"
Greece
Russia
Swizerland
Scandinavia
Spain
Austria
Portugal
"Adventure Land"
"Land of Children" (Vikings' land)
and extended with a new roler coaster (blue fire), this year:
Iceland



The Park is very well planned.
However, my first impression was: "We'll get flooded with ambient-music, until we're zombies or something "
That's because already BEFORE the entry - from the parking lots to the cash, a happy music scatters through a long tunnel, where on top you can read about the park producing a huge amount of solar-electricity...
And after the cash, where you only pay once and then don't have to pay anymore inside the park (except of course for minor attractions and food), the first thing we drove with, the E.P.Express (EuropaParkExpress), which basically is a cross between a Panorama- and public transport train, we again heard different but equally happy music...

After that first strange thought, it was a great visit
In most of the lands, you have one roller coaster one water coaster (if that's the word^^) and some things, which are rather like carousels. All is surrounded with nice park-arrangements and each land is designed just like its cliché... - even the toilets and dust bins!

Also, because everything is owned by one person, those attractions are often connected:
In Austria for instance, which mainly focuses on the alpes and possible gem-findings, there are three main attractions: The "Alpenexpress Enzian", the "Tiroler Wildwasserbahn" (Wild-waters Tyrol) and the "Zauberwelt der Diamanten" (Magic world of Diamonds) are combined in one fantasy world, where strange trolls or what they are mine ore and gems in a gloomy fantasy-rich and impressing atmosphere (accompanied with very matching music - even if music isn't TOTALLY everywhere, it's at least NEARLY everywhere^^).
The differences: "Alpenexpress Enzian" is a Roller Coaster with its highlight being a dark part where you suddenly see nothing, "Tiroler Wildwasserbahn" is a water coaster and "Zauberwelt der Diamanten" simply is a path through that fantasy world, where you can watch the happenings in a more detailed way (and in the end, a jewelery shop is waiting for your buying lol...)

The park doesn't only feature this kind of attractions. As the landscape is designed in a very beautiful manner, it's even possible, to just come to walk around. - Actually I heard, some do that indeed!

Very interesting to me was the variety of birds: lots of sparrows, ravens and ducks shared the complex and once, in the Land of Children, there where two displaying storks in the highest point there.

Overally, it's a very nice place to go, even for people who usually don't really like such kinds of parks...

Btw: Most of the roler coasters aren't really extreme... Just a few are (two or three) - I guess at least, because I didn't drive them xD
The most extreme one probably is "blue fire" - one of the three new attractions inside Iceland

PS: Most texts are trilingual in German, French and English. For some reason, some of them don't feature English...



One day, we also where in France - in Strassbourg, to be more accurate...
The inner city is quite nice, especially the impressing huge cathedral... Very close to said cathedral, there was a café, called *french on* "Christian - Salon de Thé" *reactivé anglais* . There, we got TURE hot chocolate (without sugar) and amazing cakes. We only sat outside, though my mum went to the toilet inside and found out that it must have been THE luxus-café around. Or at least one of the top ten. The deserts at least let you expect that. I really just can recommend it to everyone who likes deserts and quality

Expect photos soon

Now I'm back home