Travel Haiku. Europe Road Ways Review

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Travelers'  Haiku:

Road trips look-back, when costs fit.

Travel still enchants.

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Europe Road Ways Review

Our newest:  Russia

Russia

Spotless tourist streets,

Sanitize the past as well.

Enjoy the people.

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Austria
Empires' crossroads.  Wien,
Mauthausen. Complicity's
Shades. Play on, Mozart.
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Austria, baroque nativity

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Belgium
Old pride riven: Wars,
Culture divides. Still, stalwart.
Plus art. Great waffles.
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Antwerp, Castle Steen, Lanagerwappen

Bosnia
Muslim. Orthodox.
Christian. Mostar's bridge rises.
Who the heretic?

Bogomil grave, Bosnia

Croatia
Spirit, Bishop, Nin.
Mass, Croatian. For that, banned.
Seek!  Autonomy!

Nin, Croatia, Bishop Gregory of Nin

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Czech Republic
Pilsner, property
Confiscated. Ethnic-cleanse.
Now rising, claims Self.

Hradec Kralove, CZ

Denmark
Was fierce! Vast in lands.
Ancient vitality firm,
Then sapped. Return. Sass.
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Denmark, Sonderborg Castle figure

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England
Jolly old. Self-full.
Exploited colonial
Subjects roost roots here.

Leeds, England. Turtle, ducks back

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France 
Devastate. Repeat.
Marching armies, Popes, Kings.
Courage! dit Piaf.

Angers Castle, France

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Germany
Lockstep. Reconstruct.
Marshall Plan! Wealth back. Affront!
Bailed out, now must bail?
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New construction,  Berlin, Germany

Hebrides
Standing stones, Vikings,
One-lane roads with lay-bys
Wind. Knights' churches. Breathe!

Rodel Church, Clan MacLeod, Hebrides, Scotland

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Hungary
Roma, Jews,  traces
Of the purged. Oft invaded,
Turns against its own?

Great Synagogue, Dohany Street, Budapest

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Ireland
Spirit of early
Monks rubbed out by Rules, and faked
Invasion permits.
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Norman Tower House, Ireland

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Italy
Vatican kingdom
Grows power, riches. Edicts.
We like Juliet.

Verona, Italy. Juliet and Dan Widing, Italy

Liechtenstein
No unemployment!
Banks at ev'ry turn.  Name names!
Nope. Won't.  Can't tax this.
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Luxembourg
Mighty caverns, trade
Routes, military legends,
Patton. Hamm. Salute.

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Montenegro
Mountains, guerrillas,
Invaders, fjords, Cetinje.
Ostrog survives all.

Ostrog Monastery, Montenegro

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The Netherlands
Tallness, tulips, cheese,
War-crimes court, social coping.
Heritage. At brink?

Canal, cars, houseboat, Amsterdam, NL

Norway
Hairpin turns, tunnels
Vast under fjords, Viking stones.
Christians forced converts.

Orkney
Scots now. Whither Picts?
All Norse place names.  Old wipe-out.
Wind-tunnel town streets.
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Romania
Harsh needs, harsh crossroads.
Rome, Roma, cacophony.
Vlad, Lenin, try all.

.Roma, scavenging, Romania
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Scotland
England's muscle-flex.
Uproot crofter! Kill the brave!
Old lives live, despite.
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Robert the Bruce, Stirling Castle, Scotland

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Sicily
Ancients, temples, sea.
Wars. Untamed Aetna. Smokin'!
Cultures, cliff towns. Eat!
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Mt. Aetna, lava, smoke, Sicily

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Slovakia
Defenses, old, new.
Heaviness of history.
Offset: festivals.
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Spis Castle, Slovakia

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Slovenia
Caught. Powers straddled.
Old, proud Carantania
Conveniently wiped.

Lake Bled, Slovenia

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Sweden
Rus-roots, Caucasus,
Sigge Fridulson. Culture
Highjacked? Uppsala.

Old Uppsala, ancient burial mounds, Sweden

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Poland
Easy invade. Flat.
Divided. Abused. Admire!
Retained humor, arts.

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Wales
Edward's great castles.
Stop on the way and listen.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
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Switzerland
Bet both ends v. mid.
Gnome secrets. Alp views distract.
Uncommitted thrive.
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I. Child not for college?
Parents: Offer direct sense
In some way. Go there.

II. Where? You pick distance.
A family root. Crofter?
Mongol? The Black Plague.