{"id":857465,"date":"2024-09-03T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/?p=857465"},"modified":"2025-03-03T18:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:58:33","slug":"eurotour-in-reality-how-to-repeat-the-route-from-the-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourism.com.de\/en\/eurotour-in-reality-how-to-repeat-the-route-from-the-film\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\ude97 “Eurotour” in reality: how to repeat the route from the film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Euro Tour<\/a> ” is a film about the crazy journey of yesterday\u2019s schoolchildren, which is easily parsed into quotes. If you also read “miscusi, miscusi” and imagine a train, a mustachioed Italian and a long tunnel, then you have watched an American comedy.<\/p>\n

” Europe<\/a> is tiny, we can walk from London<\/a> to Berlin<\/a>.” It\u2019s clearly not worth taking tourist information from there and trusting travel stereotypes, but repeating the route<\/a> is difficult, but possible.<\/p>\n

In the film it looks like this: Oberlin, Ohio, USA<\/a> – London – Paris<\/a> – Cagnes-sur-mer – Amsterdam – Bratislava – Berlin – Rome<\/a> – Vatican. Actually a ready-made tour of Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I'm guessing you won't be flying from the States, so we'll limit ourselves to Europe. The first difficulty is visas. For such a trip, if you are not a citizen of one of the EU countries, for example ,<\/a> you need British and Schengen visas.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, everything is simple: just buy tickets and book hotels, but how the characters in the film got from city to city and where they spent the night – read on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

London<\/a>. Football fans and pub<\/h2>\n

The friends flew to London by plane from<\/a> the USA<\/a> as couriers; there were no tickets to Berlin (history<\/a> is silent about where their package went). Already in the city, Scott and Cooper, instead of sightseeing (for example, the Tower of London<\/a>, which sounded like one of the options for spending time), went straight to the Fiesty Goat pub – in reality this does not exist. But after the release of the film in 2004, establishments with that name were opened in the USA and Canada.<\/p>\n

In a pub, friends<\/a> ran into angry Manchester United fans. Interestingly, the role of one of the football fans was played by professional footballer, FA Cup winner Vinnie Jones. He played 9 international matches for Wales. And I was never a Manchester United fan.<\/p>\n

Paris<\/a>. Queues and battle of “robots”<\/h2>\n

After a wild night with a lot of beer, the friends end up in Paris<\/a> on bus<\/a> e, along with the football fans who picked them up.<\/p>\n

“Paris is almost a suburb of Berlin<\/a>.” In fact, Berlin-Paris is a really popular tourist route, but the distance between the cities is more than 1000 km.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

In the French capital, the main characters meet two more friends and are all rushing to the Louvre together, but they don\u2019t have the patience to stand in huge lines. And this is the very case when the stereotype turns out to be true. Of course, everything is not as bad as in the film, but you will have to stand up for tickets. But remember that there is more than one entrance to the museum<\/a>. I went to the box office through the Carousel du Louvre shopping gallery and this significantly saved me time buying a ticket. Keep this in mind even if you buy e-tickets<\/a> in advance. “While you\u2019re here, I\u2019ll take the queue at the Eiffel Tower” is also a true joke.<\/p>\n

One of the attractions in the queue was a battle between Scott and a street performer who looked and moved like a robot. In Paris, as in many other large European cities, there are quite a lot of “mummers,” magicians, and musicians with whom you can take photos<\/a> for a donation and watch their performances.<\/p>\n

After having dinner at a French restaurant, the guys are thinking about their further route, which should bring them to the desired Berlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Provence and nudist beach<\/h2>\n

Then they travel by train to Amsterdam, but make a connection in the small town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the southeast of the country in Provence. Cagnes-sur-Mer is one of the most popular resort towns on the French Riviera. Friends decide to visit the local nudist beach. In reality, there is no nudist beach there, and the closest one is in the Netherlands in Zandvoort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amsterdam. Weed brownies, robbery and “flugegeheimen”<\/h2>\n

In the film, it was the Netherlands<\/a> that collected the most vivid cliches about the country. While Cooper is having fun in the fictional Wondersex bar on the Red Light District and cannot pronounce the famous made-up safe word “flugegeheimen,” his friend is robbed, also in a very piquant situation. Dominatrix and “Xena: Warrior Princess,” by the way, were played by the same actress\u2014Lucy Lawless.<\/p>\n

At this time, the rest of the heroes expand their gastronomic horizons with weed cakes, which in fact turn out to be ordinary brownies. But the truth is that in Amsterdam you can actually try a lot of “forbidden pleasures”, and do it safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

Bratislava. The specter of communism and the excellent exchange rate<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Let me remind you that in the story, my friends were robbed and they had almost no money left. Therefore, in order to finally get to Berlin, they decide to hitchhike. Alas, Scott's German level is not enough, and a tipsy truck driver takes the heroes straight to the capital of Slovakia – Bratislava.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you where the whole film was shot, but cinematic Bratislava is a separate form of art and stereotypes about Eastern Europe, elevated to the absolute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the role of Bratislava, the film shows the Czech city of Milovice, which was the headquarters of the Soviet Central Group of Forces of the USSR from 1968 to 1991. After the withdrawal of Soviet units, the training ground and military camp were closed. But, according to the scriptwriters of Eurotour, it was the neglected appearance of the abandoned buildings that ideally reflected the stereotypical American idea of \u200b\u200ba typical post-communist city in Eastern Europe. One line from the recognizable song “Get up, huge country” playing in the background is worth it. Today Milovice has been well renovated, although there are still a lot of abandoned buildings.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the phrase “Lord, help us, we are in Eastern Europe” also became popular. The first thing the company of heroes saw was gray panels damaged by graffiti, broken windows, construction, old cars. And when asked how soon the heroes could get to Berlin, they were told: “Soon, they have already begun to build the road.” This is a comedy, so I won\u2019t even draw parallels here. Bratislava is a beautiful European city, from where, by the way, you can easily get cheap tickets to Berlin by bus or train.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The film is from 2004, and the euro was introduced into circulation in Slovakia in 2009. Before this, stereotypes about local Eastern European currencies could hardly be called true. But opening your own restaurant for 10 cents, as you understand, was never possible anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After hanging out in a nightclub, the heroes go to Berlin without incident, they are picked up by a local resident in a car.<\/p>\n

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