traffic from DE to DE goes via NL->UK->US->FR

Fri Aug 4 13:31:56 UTC 2006

Hi,

Just wondering if it is normal for traffic from DE to DE to flow  through  NL->UK->US->FR and so increase delay nearly 100 times?
Traceroute here: http://pastebin.ca/115200 and there is only 4 AS, so ASPATH does not help a lot in finding such links with a horrifying optimisation. I believe there is much worse links, any software 
to detect this? Something like scanning one ip from larger IP blocks with icmp and comparing geotrajectoyi via geoip?

thank you,
AKK