Europe, 1982

In the summer of 1982, I traveled to Europe at the invitation of my uncle, Norman Flom.

I had just graduated from high school, and he was living in Bonn, Germany.

It was a great experience - one that I will treasure forever.

I was given a Eurailpass which allowed me to ride the trains throughout Europe for one prepaid, flat fee.

With a time limit of 2 months, I decided to try and reach the northern and southern limits of my rail pass.

I skipped Spain, France, and England, choosing instead to travel as far south as Athens, Greece, and as far north as Copenhagen, Denmark.


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 I've 'organized' the slides by city. (I only took a few photos while 'in transit', so I've just tacked them onto the appropriate cities.)

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 All of my 'favorite' photos have been duplicated in a final category.

Go here if you just want to see the best of all the photos from the whole trip.

During my travels, I visited the cities of Munich, Interlaken, Venice, Athens, Rome, East/West Berlin, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen.

I had a budget of about $10/day, so I stayed at youth hostels, and grabbed cheap food where I could find it.

In cities like Athens & Amsterdam, the youth hostels were almost always full, so it was a challenge to find the cheapest flop house I felt safe sleeping in.


Even though there are almost ninety slides here, I wish I'd taken about 5 times as many!

I really met some nice people along the way, and can't believe that I didn't take more pictures of these people who passed through my life.

Technical details: (January, 2000)
The slides were shot with my uncle's 35mm camera, using Kodak Slide Film. (This was the first time I had done any kind of film photography. My previous experience was only with video cameras, so I'm amazed that they even came out! :^) I recently acquired a 35mm slide scanner, so I figured these would be a great first test at scanning. They were scanned with a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual scanner, using the 3rd party scanning software, VueScan. (These slides were almost 20 years old, and have not been very carefully stored. The color balance on the slides really required a lot of touch-up, and the software included with the scanner was just not adequate. VueScan has a clunky interface, but also has some great controls for automatically correcting color shift in older slides. It scans at up to 48 bits of color depth, and produces some very solid colors - especially for a scanner that cost less than $400!)