St Kitts

Well, St. Kitts isn't a European location, but I went there with Mom and Dad for the Christmas break in the middle of my European adventure, so I guess it's worth a mention. After 8 hours of delays, a cancellation, 3 more hours of delays, a flight to Atlanta, a brief stop at the BCG Christmas party, a flight to Miami and a flight to the Carribean, I finally made it there...

not a bad view

The island itself was really cool as it was basically the tip of a mountain in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean / Caribbean - probably the first place I've been to that's like that. It was a really small island and the place we were staying was at a point on the island that's only ~ 1/4 mile wide, so that was pretty cool.

view of the beach / hotel from the mountain

I climbed the mountain to take the above picture and I also found the other side, which was basically completely green and not built up. You can see the deserted private beach there as well, pretty cool (you can also see the narrowness of the island there too).

We went a bunch of random places for dinner, one of which had a view of Nevis (the other island in the country of St. Kitts and Nevis) and another which had a cool view of the Basseterre bay - I don't have pics of any of those, sorry. Overall a really cool island, with some very nice, warm weather to give a break to the snow in Amsterdam (and Atlanta!).