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Before I relive the recent weekend I spent in Hamburg, I have to discuss something that non-Europeans, especially Americans, overlook about Germany: it may be a lot smaller than the United States, but it's more culturally diverse. I recently found a great listicle on the Chive, one of those light entertainment sites I use for after-work unwinding, about what Hollywood gets wrong about people's countries. In this list I found a picture of a woman decked out in Dirndl standing next to a Warsteiner beer tap, captioned "Bavaria is not our whole country." That's so true.
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Strasbourg (German Straßburg) is a French city on the German border, on the west bank of the Rhine, and that location is probably responsible for its conflict-ridden history. It's the largest city in a region called Alsace (German Elsass) which for much of the past was desirable to whichever side didn't have it. The city was traditionally German until 1681 when the French took it, then the Germans took it and all Alsace back in 1871, which caused the French to seethe in resentment until they wrested it back in the First World War. Aside from the relatively brief Nazi occupation in the Second World War, it's been French ever since.
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Funny how it worked out...I spent four days in Mérida, Yucatán, flew back to San Antonio and went back to work for a week, and then I found myself boarding a cruise ship bound for the peninsula I just flew away from. This was pure coincidence, of course; all my friends and I settled on a cruise leaving on a specific date and it just happened to be a week after the Rock 'n Roll Half Marathon in Mérida.
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My last full day in Mérida was mostly devoted to the Mayan ruins at Uxmal. These ruins are a a little more than an hour's drive south of the city, but thankfully I'd found a ride out there.
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