Around the world at Epcot

The last remaining park to visit was Epcot which is the educational park of the four Disney world parks. It is featuring iconic rides like Spaceship Earth which takes its visitors in a time machine through humankind's biggest inventions, a simulated space launch (which I took at least five times) and of course the world showcase build on the shores of a small lake.

This is actually the nicest part of the park as it allows its visitors to travel around the world in a matter of a short walk. Following eleven countries are represented: Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Morocco, France, United Kingdom and Canada. Every country has its own small exposition, shops and restaurants.

Of course I had to spend some time in Germany. Lucky enough they were selling alcohol in this park unlike the other three parks. Can you imagine Germany without beer? Me neither ;-) But I have to admit the food was authentic. And the German part of the park looked much like Nuremberg and the German speaking waiter and waitress were wearing Dirndl and Lederhosen. Everyone knows that we are all wearing that stuff over there all the time :-P

The United Kingdom part of the park was very well done as well. I liked the fish and chips and the nice English pub they had there... playing some great (American) Rock music ;-)

The only thing which didn't really fit into the whole picture was the St. Paddy's stuff which was getting sold all over the place there. As one of the people beside me correctly noticed... isn't that Irish?

Oh well... I think it is hard to create a world showcase without presenting stereotypes as well. But I still think they did a great job at Epcot. And if you don't have the time or the money to travel to all those countries this might be the next best thing. Much better then going to Vegas believing that you saw Venice or Rome I guess :-)