Oh, I thought you were asking me the reason why I bought a PAL 3DS. My bad...
I had gone to Dubai, not Europe. It was a pretty fun place! There was so much to do there, but we were there for like only 5 days... Out of which my mom wasted like 3 days shopping...
So there were some pretty awesome deals on the 3DS and 3DS XL, but my mom refused to buy any for me. Those were NTSC ones and Pokemon X & Y had just released back then...
C'mon, even my dad didn't have a problem with it... Shame that he wasn't there with us on the trip...
She later ended up buying one at the airport while heading back home. And yeah, it turned out to be a PAL one.
They didn't trust eShop at all, so yeah...