And I thought it was just me...  The first time I travelled abroad, I landed in Frankfurt, and I remember looking out the plane window and feeling like I'd landed in weird cartoon.  Those strange, cute little cars...

In France, it wasn't the service vehicles so much as the surreal number of bunny rabbits witnessed upon touching down that gave me that "feeling" of Europe.  Again ... the cute factor.  

I decidedly did not feel like I was in Europe when I arrived at Sheremetevo ...  

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire