Category Cathedral

Europe 2014 – Lyon – Home of the Two Hour Lunch

August 10, 2014 · by · in Camping, Cathedral, Europe, Europe 2014, France, Hiking/Walking, Lyon, Rick Steves · Leave a comment

Timeline: July 22nd  – 23rd   The drive up to Lyon took a bit over five hours, as we’d set the GPS to avoid tolls.  In France, this turns what is an easy drive on the toll road into a day of speeding up and slowing down as you enter small towns and negotiate round-abouts.  […]

Europe 2014 – Barcelona: Bari Gotic, Sagrada Familia, and So Much More

July 27, 2014 · by · in Barcelona, Camping, Cathedral, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2014, Hiking/Walking, Rick Steves, Spain · 1 Comment

Timeline: Barcelona 8th  – 11th We started our day much the same as the one before, riding the bus into Plaza Catalunya, checking mail at the Apple Store and then embarking on a walking tour of the Bari Gotic, the center of the old city of Barcelona.  Many of its buildings date from medieval times […]

Europe 2014 – Sevilla, Coincidence is Just God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous

July 6, 2014 · by · in Bicycle Tours and Rides, Camping, Cathedral, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2014, Hiking/Walking, Seville, Spain · 1 Comment

We returned to town the next day for a pair of tours recommended in the Steves guide, hosted by Conception Delgado.  The first, Sevilla Cultural Show and Tell was a nicely paced and informative 15 Euro visit that hit the highlights of the central part of town, full of background information about it, the lives […]

Europe 2014 – Santiago de Compostela – The End of the Camino

June 18, 2014 · by · in Camping, Cathedral, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2014, Hiking/Walking, Santiago de Compostela · 2 Comments

We’d stopped at a Carrefour in Lugo and picked up dinner supplies there, so we set up at Camping As Cancelas, had our meal, including a bottle of that nice white wine we’d discovered in Pamplona, and then made our way down to the restaurant/bar of the campground to check out the ambience and the […]

Europe 2014 – Burgos and Leon or the Hit and Run Cathedral Tour

June 16, 2014 · by · in Burgos, Camino de Santiago, Cathedral, Europe, Europe 2014, Leon, Pamplona, Santiago de Compostela, Spain · Leave a comment

  Our plan for the next two days would be to stay in a hotel each night in Burgos and Leon.  Outside of their respective cathedrals, neither town had much more to see and for a bit more than the cost of camping, we could take in the sights, make time, and gain a day […]

Europe 2014 – Brussels: We Have Arrived

May 18, 2014 · by · in Belgium, Brussels, Cathedral, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2014, Hiking/Walking, Rick Steves · 4 Comments

We thought we had a lot of time built into our last couple of days in Charlotte, but the number of small tasks that needed completing in order for us to leave the house and our affairs in order for six months took care of the entirety of Monday and had us hustling Tuesday morning.  […]

Europe 2007 – The Start of a New Adventure, Part Four

May 2, 2014 · by · in Cathedral, Chartres, Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.), Europe, Europe 2007, France, Germany, Montigney-Le-Brettonoux, Paris · 3 Comments

We made the five-hour drive down to Francois’ place in Montigny without any further incident.  It would be our first time to his new apartment, which he shared with his son Axel, after so many visits to the house that he and Heike had shared during our past journeys.  With their divorce a few years […]

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