Wednesday, June 26, 2013

My May European Vacation


So I promised photos  a while ago and I'm a slacker, so it's taken a month to get to it. The photos have been downloaded and uploaded and sorted and dated and are finally ready for a more formal venue.
I won't go into all the details of the trip now, but it was good... and bad. 

It was rushed, jam-packed, exhausting, and stressful. It was beautiful, educational, thought provoking, and eye opening.

England was beautiful. Although the sun is actually shining in some of these photos, the sunshine was short-lived. It was cold.

Paris was a weather nightmare, raining and cold the whole time we were there. I didn't get many photos on my phone of outdoor things. We used the good camera inside all the museums, but you'll get the idea.

Overall we've decided we need to go back. England needs a good three weeks for us to see everything and Paris probably needs the same just for the city. What we came back with is a list of things we need to go back and see.

These are a few of my best photos.

This is a small street right next to Wells Cathedral. I felt like I was at Disneyland, except it was real. It totally blew my mind. The city was so full of architectural treasures.

Carl and I at Stonehenge at 8:00 in the morning. We had reservations to be able to go in among the stones. It was amazing.

Glastonbury Tor. The history here was palpable. The hike up was thru beautiful English farms and there were sheep and cows grazing along the way. The wind at the top was ruthless though.

Me at the Muse de Orsay by myself. Carl was deathly ill this day with a lymph node infection and I had to conquer some sites myself.

The rainy view of the Eiffel Tower. We walked all the way there and then took the trip all the way up to the top. Amazingly it is not as scary a trip as the one up the tower in Vegas.  This one is much larger and felt a million times more stable.

Till next time.

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