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Oh, yeah, USA are great, and we really enjoyed Atlanta.
When I wrote the sneak preview, I only had few minutes to check my mails and leave a trace on Albazilla… and still many things had to come! Eventually, here we are with all the pictures and all the memories
But before going further, we want to thank Ken and Sarah, that gave us many precious hints to enjoy our stay in the city of the Peaches.

Atlanta is not a city as we (Europeans) are used to. If we consider Downtown, its old part, there’re no small ancient houses or cute blocks to walk through, neither little shops or boutique. Instead, a huge (well, normal American size) highway cutting Downtown from South to North, a huge shopping mall (the Underground), many important luxurious hotels/conference centers, and the rest is just auto silos to park! The result is pretty greyish and smellish of traffic and pollution. Let’s say that when we arrived, we were a bit disappointed. Moreover, also the weather was quite… ehm, Dutch.
But then, in the next days, we visited many interesting attractions: the Coca-Cola world, where you can (litterally) have a taste of what people became used to drink around the world; the CNN studios, where you can visit while they’re broadcasting live, and get a grasp on how making business in ‘creating’ news…
Our mood was already better, and at that point we really loved the Stone Mountain Park: in a granite mountain, a fool/inspired patriot decided to engrave the heads (and bodies and horses) of three important figures of the South during the Secession War.
Now we were reconforted, great weather and already many interesting things in our memories. We also discovered the city wasn’t all there… in fact from Downtown you can reach Midtown, where all the elegant residencial areas are. Keep on going North, you get to Buckhead, where the city is developing, and where the shopping malls are so many and so big that you could spend a day in it (if you are a bit indecided like me ).
Resuming, here we put all the many pictures we made. They’re a lot, but it’s our way to share the beautiful experience we had in Atlanta, the city of the Peaches… even if we didn’t see a tree

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