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Hello! After much scrambling trying to find money and dragging the parents to come on our first trip to Germany, I finally managed to get on out to Rust and the so called greatest theme park since slice bread or the time when my Dad shaved his back...
Europa Park!
So then, how'd it go then you might ask? Well...yeah, 'tis was ok...haha, It blew my expectations right out of the water and completely stunned my parents of how beautiful this place was and that I had found as a wee gem. However though, it didn't start too well for us. The day before we arrived in Rust, us being cheap stakes, they (my parents) didn't want to go for the EP hotels due to pricing and wanted to include a trip to France and Switzerland after EP, so we instead went to one of the hotels in Rust, which proved to be quite challenging to find.
We did find it eventually, but it was then that our phone service in Germany didn't work for us, and it took us about the night in our room to get them working again.
Clearly this wasn't going our way at all.
Finally the big day came...and it was starting to rain when we arrived at the gate.
Silver Star can be seen here, and was on my 'must ride' list. But the bad weather around us made me doubt if I was even going to get half of the park done in a day.
Finally we entered and already, the theming was impressing me, but I knew I couldn't wait there and had to get on with the day. Up ahead is Euromaus welcoming guests to the park (if I've spelt his name correctly!)
First up to escape the rain, we then boarded the the EuroTower, which we then had a good look at this giant park. Here is Silver Star again.
Here is EuroSat and Posidon, later on, we'd find ourselves crossing over into Greece quite a lot...
...Erm, what was it's name again?
We then found ourselves riding this Monorail later on.
After that, we found ourselves walking over to Silver Star, only for the rain to get heavy, resulting us taking cover.
Poor folk though get soaked. Though I was impressed that the monorail tracks were all in different colours to match the area they are in such as this set.
Later on though, I did ride SS and what do I think...Very good I do say! Lots of good air time and very fast, though it wasn't the ride I'd would rank EP's number 1...
We did a few other dark rides and an ice show that Mum wanted to see, which in turn put Mandyland's Hot Ice show on toast!
Finally though, we arrived in Iceland...
Ah yes, WODON, I was really looking forward to riding this one with the family, by the point too, the rain had gone off a bit, though it would be turning itself on and off throughout the day.
Gotta love the theming.
I must say, with what everyone else has said with this queue line, it's top notch and certainly one of the best I've been in, too bad it was all in German and I couldn't understand nor get into the story...really should practice some German.
Me being arty, wooden structures always look nice to look at.
And there's me. So what'd I think. Simply the best wooden coaster I've ridden to date. Goes to number 4 in my top 10 list. Very fast, rough and just damn fun. if only we had one of those back home...sigh.
Finally, it was Blue Fire's turn. The rain had started to come again when I took this photo, though I personally think I suits being in the rain, must be the blue me thinks.
Now it is time to ride this coaster.
My verdict? Really good. second time I've been on a inversion coaster without bulky OTSR, old Twist and Shout at Loudoun Castle being my first. Ride's a bit slow in places, then again it kinda is a family thrill ride, anyone for a Launch Mack Megacoaster replacing Rita?
...Erm, Finland is not part of Scandavian, it's just Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
Then the rain got worse.
This cause me difficulty to enjoy the park, but I couldn't really go out and explore the place in great detail.
Finally, by my Mother's nagging request, we went to see the Abba show in the Globe theatre. And my god, I never thought I'd say this, but even that I enjoyed it! Though really it was the magician in the show who, though was only on about 5 minutes at a time, completely stole the show. A German Tommy Cooper would you believe! And I never thought Germans could be funny, they do now!
And that was that. it was a bit of a rocky day due to the weather, so I had to hope that tomorrow would be better. I'll start of the second day of the report soon if this report get's any replies (hopefully!) In the meantime, here's another shot of SS, which by the point when the park was closing, the sun finally came out!
Anyway, stay tuned to see if my Europa trip could get any better.
Europa Park!
So then, how'd it go then you might ask? Well...yeah, 'tis was ok...haha, It blew my expectations right out of the water and completely stunned my parents of how beautiful this place was and that I had found as a wee gem. However though, it didn't start too well for us. The day before we arrived in Rust, us being cheap stakes, they (my parents) didn't want to go for the EP hotels due to pricing and wanted to include a trip to France and Switzerland after EP, so we instead went to one of the hotels in Rust, which proved to be quite challenging to find.
We did find it eventually, but it was then that our phone service in Germany didn't work for us, and it took us about the night in our room to get them working again.
Clearly this wasn't going our way at all.
Finally the big day came...and it was starting to rain when we arrived at the gate.
Silver Star can be seen here, and was on my 'must ride' list. But the bad weather around us made me doubt if I was even going to get half of the park done in a day.
Finally we entered and already, the theming was impressing me, but I knew I couldn't wait there and had to get on with the day. Up ahead is Euromaus welcoming guests to the park (if I've spelt his name correctly!)
First up to escape the rain, we then boarded the the EuroTower, which we then had a good look at this giant park. Here is Silver Star again.
Here is EuroSat and Posidon, later on, we'd find ourselves crossing over into Greece quite a lot...
...Erm, what was it's name again?
We then found ourselves riding this Monorail later on.
After that, we found ourselves walking over to Silver Star, only for the rain to get heavy, resulting us taking cover.
Poor folk though get soaked. Though I was impressed that the monorail tracks were all in different colours to match the area they are in such as this set.
Later on though, I did ride SS and what do I think...Very good I do say! Lots of good air time and very fast, though it wasn't the ride I'd would rank EP's number 1...
We did a few other dark rides and an ice show that Mum wanted to see, which in turn put Mandyland's Hot Ice show on toast!
Finally though, we arrived in Iceland...
Ah yes, WODON, I was really looking forward to riding this one with the family, by the point too, the rain had gone off a bit, though it would be turning itself on and off throughout the day.
Gotta love the theming.
I must say, with what everyone else has said with this queue line, it's top notch and certainly one of the best I've been in, too bad it was all in German and I couldn't understand nor get into the story...really should practice some German.
Me being arty, wooden structures always look nice to look at.
And there's me. So what'd I think. Simply the best wooden coaster I've ridden to date. Goes to number 4 in my top 10 list. Very fast, rough and just damn fun. if only we had one of those back home...sigh.
Finally, it was Blue Fire's turn. The rain had started to come again when I took this photo, though I personally think I suits being in the rain, must be the blue me thinks.
Now it is time to ride this coaster.
My verdict? Really good. second time I've been on a inversion coaster without bulky OTSR, old Twist and Shout at Loudoun Castle being my first.
Ride's a bit slow in places, then again it kinda is a family thrill ride, anyone for a Launch Mack Megacoaster replacing Rita? 
...Erm, Finland is not part of Scandavian, it's just Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
Then the rain got worse.
This cause me difficulty to enjoy the park, but I couldn't really go out and explore the place in great detail.
Finally, by my Mother's nagging request, we went to see the Abba show in the Globe theatre. And my god, I never thought I'd say this, but even that I enjoyed it! Though really it was the magician in the show who, though was only on about 5 minutes at a time, completely stole the show. A German Tommy Cooper would you believe! And I never thought Germans could be funny, they do now!
And that was that. it was a bit of a rocky day due to the weather, so I had to hope that tomorrow would be better. I'll start of the second day of the report soon if this report get's any replies (hopefully!) In the meantime, here's another shot of SS, which by the point when the park was closing, the sun finally came out!
Anyway, stay tuned to see if my Europa trip could get any better.
