We flew from London City Airport, one of five London airports, to Dublin Sunday night and enjoyed our taxi driver’s lilting brogue and commentary on the ride from the Dublin airport to our apartment. The tiny apartment requires planning and coordination of movements in order to dry the laundry on the drying rack and move the second…
Hard to believe it’s almost time to leave London. I’m glad we came. I have a much better impression of England now than when I was here for a few days on my honeymoon – a couple days before and after Ireland. I was exhausted when I was here in 1998 – I couldn’t seem to…
In our last hours on Hurtigruten’s MS Nordkapp Saturday, we sailed through Hurricane Ole. It was quite a sickening ride, and both kids hurled. We had bought acupressure bracelets that other passengers had told us about to prevent motion sickness, but they didn’t seem to work great for us. Much of the time onboard was rough water,…
Last night after the kids and I had put on our jammies and settled into our bunks on the MS Nordkapp and Laurel and I had attempted to sing all of “American Pie,” an announcement came over the PA: “Ladies and Gentlemen, you can now see the Northern Lights.” We quickly dressed and hurried down…
Here’s our getting-to-London story: On January 22, Laurel carried her guitar, suitcase, and backpack down the six-story winding staircase of our Paris apartment while I carried Charlie’s and my suitcases and my backpack. (I had to make two trips on the suitcases.) We walked 1/2 mile with our luggage to the subway station and arrived…
The first photos are of New Year’s Eve when the kids walked to the Champs-Élysées to see if there was anything going on. I wasn’t feeling well and stayed home. The street was closed to vehicles, and there were hundreds of thousands of people packed like sardines from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place…
It was difficult finding the entrance to Lisbon’s tile museum. When I asked an old man who was walking down the street, he walked with us all the way there – around a large block – which we thought was very kind of him. Laurel loves paintings and sculptures of babies that look like ugly,…
If you zoom in on the second photo, you’ll see the gate numbers (in Roman numerals, of course) above the arches. The last two are of the Spanish Steps which, like so many other monuments, is undergoing major maintenance. This one is paid by Bulgari, thus the huge advertisement.
We’ve been in London for a week, but I was having some software problems on my laptop. I scheduled an appointment with Apple’s Genius Bar for Friday afternoon but finally resolved the two software problems today. Yay! I cancelled the Apple appointment and can now blog again. Below are more Rome photos. First are pictures of and…
Today after brunch and an adventure in purchasing mass transit cards, we had to use the restroom and just happened to be by “The World’s Sexiest WC.” After paying one Euro apiece, we (Laurel & I) selected from many colors of toilet paper and used the toilets and then the giant yellow sink. There are…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 