12/20/2023 0 Comments Flume columbus![]() ![]() After spending two full days there, I can look at Europa from two conflicting, yet entirely valid perspectives. The first stop on the trip was a place that has lately assumed the mantle as the near-consensus best park in the world: Europa Park. ![]() ?Why would you ever leave? We have THE BEST coasters in the world here! Don?t you know about the X2 and the Full Throttle? Imagine the look on their faces when I told them that I was not just visiting Efteling, but Toverland! The opposite behavior can best be observed at Six Flags Magic Mountain. No matter that they were happily forking over $500 for one day at Disneyland on their vacation, the idea that an American would bother with Efteling was just too weird for them to comprehend. ![]() They thought it was not just bizarre, but downright comical that I would do something as trivial as visit Efteling (I went on my own after the tour ended) during my first ever trip to the Netherlands. ?poop, you came from California just to ride Phantom?s Revenge? But why? It?s only Kennywood? I work in a large resort hotel where I assisted a Dutch family vacationing in California about a week before the Coaster Crazy Europe trip. Wherever you go, the people there think you are absolutely, clinically insane for leaving wherever you?re from to visit the parks and ride the coasters where they live. I've noticed a curious behavior that locals often exhibit during my travels in America (and now the world) to ride roller coasters. ![]()
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