I’ve been following a lot of topics at this forum but I’ve never made a post, until now
First let me introduce myself: I’m Lars from the Netherlands. I don’t believe in god, I believe in magic. And in my opinion one of the purest form of magic can be found at themeparks, that’s why I love them so much. English isn’t my first language so I would like to apologize in advance for all the spelling and grammatical errors
It all started when I was just a little kid. In the Efteling, the biggest park of the Netherlands which focusses on Fairytales and dutch culture I was truly enchanted and wanted to go back over and over again. The Efteling is a place that spreads magic and has his unique way of theming. The Dutch love it and foreigners think it’s weird and therefore love it. With recent additions like B&M diver Baron 1898 the Efteling keeps to amaze me.
After visiting almost all the parks in the Netherlands and the ones close to the border in Germany and Belgium I had to go further. 6 years ago I visited Disneyland Paris for the first time and I am currently a proud annual passholder. My ultimate favorites are Tower of Terror, Big Thunder Mountain who lays on it’s own Island and the brilliant Phantom Manor. I love the parade and the show Disney Dreams is still one of the most beautiful things I have seen in my life.
3 Years ago I visited Germany’s biggest themepark (with 11 rollercoasters and wonderful theming) Europa Park for the first time which looks like an EPCOT ripoff but actually has an elegant German twist.
Last year I could remove Tivoli Gardens in Kopenhagen (Denmark) from my bucket list which was a completely different park where Walt Disney himself came to very often. You can literally feel the history of this 173 year old park and the daily Ballet shows and culture is amazing.
Although I am thankful for the amazing parks that are so relatively close to me I somehow still had ‘Little Mermaid‘ feelings. I want more…
So two years ago Silvie, Sherelynn, Loren and I promised the following to each other: "if we are all graduated, we will go on vacation to Orlando." In the following 24 months we have collected a huge planning, a mountain of dreams and desires, hundreds of kilos of anticipatory pleasure, a pinch of realism and a pile of money to achieve this 'oath'. I never dreamed that I would ever walk around in the place that I knew so well from the pictures I saw for many years from the other side of the ocean. I do not believe in god, but in magic so without a doubt I exchange Jerusalem for a trip to the theme park mecca of this planet. Dreams become realities for those who are strong enough to believe in it: unbelievelars in Orlando.
First let me introduce myself: I’m Lars from the Netherlands. I don’t believe in god, I believe in magic. And in my opinion one of the purest form of magic can be found at themeparks, that’s why I love them so much. English isn’t my first language so I would like to apologize in advance for all the spelling and grammatical errors
It all started when I was just a little kid. In the Efteling, the biggest park of the Netherlands which focusses on Fairytales and dutch culture I was truly enchanted and wanted to go back over and over again. The Efteling is a place that spreads magic and has his unique way of theming. The Dutch love it and foreigners think it’s weird and therefore love it. With recent additions like B&M diver Baron 1898 the Efteling keeps to amaze me.
After visiting almost all the parks in the Netherlands and the ones close to the border in Germany and Belgium I had to go further. 6 years ago I visited Disneyland Paris for the first time and I am currently a proud annual passholder. My ultimate favorites are Tower of Terror, Big Thunder Mountain who lays on it’s own Island and the brilliant Phantom Manor. I love the parade and the show Disney Dreams is still one of the most beautiful things I have seen in my life.
3 Years ago I visited Germany’s biggest themepark (with 11 rollercoasters and wonderful theming) Europa Park for the first time which looks like an EPCOT ripoff but actually has an elegant German twist.
Last year I could remove Tivoli Gardens in Kopenhagen (Denmark) from my bucket list which was a completely different park where Walt Disney himself came to very often. You can literally feel the history of this 173 year old park and the daily Ballet shows and culture is amazing.
Although I am thankful for the amazing parks that are so relatively close to me I somehow still had ‘Little Mermaid‘ feelings. I want more…
So two years ago Silvie, Sherelynn, Loren and I promised the following to each other: "if we are all graduated, we will go on vacation to Orlando." In the following 24 months we have collected a huge planning, a mountain of dreams and desires, hundreds of kilos of anticipatory pleasure, a pinch of realism and a pile of money to achieve this 'oath'. I never dreamed that I would ever walk around in the place that I knew so well from the pictures I saw for many years from the other side of the ocean. I do not believe in god, but in magic so without a doubt I exchange Jerusalem for a trip to the theme park mecca of this planet. Dreams become realities for those who are strong enough to believe in it: unbelievelars in Orlando.