Category Europe 2017
Europe 2022 – Montpellier, Part One
June 15 – 17 We finished breakfast at the Meininger, grabbed our bags and made the now less taxing trek to Gare Bordeaux and boarded the train to enjoy our reserved seats at a cost of 24.22-Euros ($26.40). A couple of cups of coffee from the small food station in one of the cars complemented […]
Europe 2017 – The Legend of Jenny Manetta
August 24 – November 15 As promised (threatened?) in the last post, I’d like to talk a bit about Jenny Manetta, who we’ve referred to quite a few times while we recounted our month with the Greeks, and for those of you whose heads are spinning as I’ve time shifted major sections of the blog […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Five
August 24 – November 15 The final country we’d spend time in is one we continue to find fascinating and wonder how we’ve let it slip past us during the course of our many visits to Europe. This would be France. Although we’d been to Paris many times when stopping in to see Francois and […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Four
August 24 – November 15 The next big portion of the trip was spent in Spain, where we took on the challenge of completing the Camino de Santiago. What would have been approximately five weeks walking got shortened by ten days when we decided to rent bikes to finish our trek. We used nine of […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Three
August 24 – November 15 We spent time in just three countries this trip, Greece, Spain, and France. Each was an extremely positive experience and we’ll recount these, and maybe some drawbacks in the following posts. Greece My one and only visit to Greece was a month spent at the end of a three-month trip […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Two
August 24 – November 15 Logistically, this trip was easy and yet a bit more complicated than others we’ve taken due to the dual nature of our quest, that is for about half of it we’d be in tourist mode and during the other half we’d be pilgrims walking the Camino. As mentioned in an […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part One
August 24 – November 15 This trip was unlike any that we have taken in the past. Three major factors defined this difference: We would not, except for a brief period, be using a car for transportation We would not do any camping With the exception of our time with Francois, we would not […]
Europe 2017 – Barcelona, Part Two
November 12-15 After breakfast in the apartment, we set out for the 20-minute walk to Casa Mila. Followers of this blog will recognize our fascination with Antoni Gaudi (much like with Frank Lloyd Wright) and this would mark the third time on this trip we’d visited a building he was responsible for or had some […]
Europe 2017 – Barcelona, Part One
November 12-15 The four-hour ride down to Barcelona went smoothly and cost 43 euros for the two of us. Using Flix Bus had been an unanticipated bonus for travel in Europe. It’s low fares and expansive route system, coupled with fairly modern, clean, and comfortable buses, while not quite as nice as riding on the […]
Europe 2017 – Montpellier, Part Seven
November 8-11 We had a cup of coffee (a welcome change from the Nescafe packaged drink we bought each night at the market) in the breakfast room at Les Nevons before departing for Avignon and the train to Montpellier. This all went smoothly, retracing our steps and the familiar sites taking much of the anxiety […]
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