Trip To Europe

June, July , August… all these months remind me of one thing-vacation! But, I fear even that too is being affected by my fear of having no steady job in the next year. Last year, at about this time I was fortunate enough to travel to London and Bruges. I have to admit it did not seem like a country in midst of a recession over there. It seemed anything but.

Everywhere I turned there were tourists but, I must note not many American tourists. If I knew of one other American tourist I was in contact with on the trip it was a lot. But, I must say on my trip I did encounter one thing-anti-American sentiment. I feel saddened to say that the country I felt anti-American sentiments in was Belgium. It was on a tour and the tour guide made it so apparent he did not like Americans with his nasty attitude toward me. But, this only further serves to highlight one other point I wish to bring up: is the recession making other countries look upon us, America with more empathy and not see us as the “egotistical nation” they sometimes catergorize us as?


No one can argue that now would especially be a good time to travel since the euro is so low. A person can get much more for their money than in times before. Maybe, if I don’t get a full time job I can save up and travel a bit more. I don’t know how that would look on a resume but, I find that traveling in itself is a education and sometimes prospective employers take note of that .