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FacebookEuro Trip Day 45: Nuremburg, or Nuremburg, or Nürnberg, or Nuernberg. Several spellings, one city.
I'm trying to play catch up on posts here, so bear with me. :-) ****** On Monday morning, July 19th, we got up, went and availed ourselves of our free breakfast at our hotel, and got our stuff packed to head to the train station. At this point in time, we have packing down to a science. We LONG ago dispensed with the →
Sunrise and sunset are my two favorite times of day.
(Sorry about the Facebook "Like" buttons appearing at the top and bottom of each post -- I haven't figured out how to just get them to stay on the top of the post yet. I'll worry about it when I get home.) :-) Changing light at the Cologne Cathedral, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Click on the picture to view a larger →
Euro Trip Days 42, 43, and 44 all rolled into one post
Sorry if I've managed to totally bore you all to death with all of the pictures of buildings... but there are more church pictures in this post. Only a couple, though. Promise. :-) On Friday (Day 42) we left Prague and headed to Neusorg, Germany. I had no idea where this was when I booked a place to stay -- all →
Euro Trip Day 41: Bones, churches, and bone churches
Today we got up and tried to get on a train at a relatively early hour to go to the town of Kutna Hora, a UNESCO World Heritage site about an hour from Prague, and home to a few really neat places. To be fair, we did make it on the train at a reasonable hour... and then we proceeded to →
Euro Trip Day 40: Getting to indulge my love of Gothic cathedrals AND geology, all in the same day!
AKA, Why I'm the biggest nerd EVER. :-) On Wednesday we headed up to Prague Castle to check out St. Vitus Cathedral, a HUGE Gothic cathedral. Now, I've known since my freshman year of high school in Spanish class, when we learned about Santiago de Compostela in Spain, that I've been fascinated by cathedral architecture. But if I've learned one thing →
Euro Trip Day 39: I have some catching up to do!
I'm really going to try really really hard to simplify things here, since I really need to get caught up. On Day 39 we slept in... I think travel fatigue is really starting to get to us, because we both wanted to see Prague, but neither of us was enthused about going anywhere. So we opted to stay an extra night. →
Euro Trip Day 38: No shower feels better than the one you take after stewing in your own sweat on an overnight train
John actually wrote the post title as a Facebook status update. Lovely, I know, but man was he right about that! We got into Prague around 7:30 AM, got our bearings, and hopped a tram to our night's lodgings, a guest house about a mile from the train station. We knew we wouldn't be able to check in until that afternoon, →
Euro Trip Day 37: Auschwitz: A world I can only envision in black and white
**Disclaimer: As the post title should indicate, this is kind of a downer of a post. Don't say I didn't warn you. Only for a bit, though -- then it perks up towards the end.** Sunday July 11th, we got up early and got our bags packed, then took them to the train station and stuffed them in a locker so →
Euro Trip Day 36: Monks on Segways with flamethrowers
Since I've managed to get behind in blog posts, I've decided to make a concerted effort to post pictures and give a brief rundown of the day, at least until I've caught up. :-) July 10th John wasn't feeling well, so he relaxed and I wandered around Krakow, seeing more of the historical things to see. First I headed over to →
What's better than Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor on the accordion? Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor on FOUR accordions!!
Watch these kids on the piano (old piano with the keys fused so that it was a public art piece rather than a piano.) HILARIOUS. These accordion players are a Ukranian group called Harmonia -- I bought their CD of classical tunes. LOVE it. :-)
Euro Trip Day 35: Sleep, eat, rinse and repeat
So yeah... we really did nothing yesterday. It was glorious. We woke up late, lazed around reading, headed downtown, found some fairly mediocre pierogies for lunch, hung out in a park under a tree and read and napped, then headed back to our room, where we read, napped, and traded off the internet connection (we have one cable for the →
Euro Trip Day 34: I am 5,762 miles from home
You know how there are some sights that you'll never, ever forget as long as you live? This trip's been full of them for me, but stamped on my brain until the day I die will be watching the sun come up over the Polish countryside as the train chugged toward Krakow, and seeing an entire armada of storks stalk →
Euro Trip Day 33: Rugs with guns and trains with bunks
Wednesday, July 7th started somewhat busy as we went to run some errands and then head back to our hostel and proceed to conduct the now-usual jigsaw of trying to fit all of our stuff into our backpacks. We got packed up and went to the train station to get our tickets for the night train to Krakow, put the →
Euro Trip Day 32: I don’t care if there are other neat cities. I want to stay in Budapest, darn it
I feel like I should specify that Day 32 was July 6th, since I'm not getting these posts posted before bedtime anymore, like I'd originally intended. My plan before I left was just to post one picture and a quick writeup of the day, but I like doing the longer posts (despite the time they take) because I like working →
I love Budapest at night
Liberty Bridge., originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. This isn't my Day 32 post, by the way. I'm working on that. This is just a lovely shot of the Liberty Bridge and the Danube River, with the Gellert Hotel in the background. It was a lovely evening yesterday. :-)
Euro Trip Day 31: A water day from start to finish
This morning started bright and early when John and I headed to the Szechenyi Bath. One of the things Hungary is fairly famous for is its abundance of thermal baths, and while there are at least a dozen in Budapest alone, the Szechenyi is one of the most famous, and rightfully so. It's huge, and absolutely beautiful. We got there →
Euro Trip Day 30: In which we get yelled at by an old lady on the bus, go to a Latin mass, get kicked off the subway, and end up at an apparently fascist rally
Ok, I'm a day late posting this. So sue me. My excuse is the world's.WORST.upload.speed.EVAR. Even my cell phone camera pics are going slowly, and the ones from inside the sanctuary are my big camera. I did get this post at least STARTED on Sunday, though. :-p Yesterday we got up and took a metro to a bus to the top →
Euro Trip Day 29: Art is long, life is brief.
I'm writing this post quickly because I need to get ready so we can head up to Buda Castle Hill to Matyas Church, where I'm going to a Latin high mass at 10AM. Neat! (I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it here before, but one of my goals this trip is to go to church in every country. I missed Bosnia, →
Euro Trip Day 28: Relaxed day today, Budapest tomorrow
I'm starting to feel like a broken record. "Today we relaxed. Today we hung out. Today we had ice cream." Part of me feels like, hey, we came all the way here, shouldn't we be running around and doing stuff all the time to make the best use of our time? Know what? We can't. It's physically and mentally impossible. John →
Euro Trip Day 27: Anyone know what flavor “Smurf” is?
Yesterday we slept in... we've been doing that a lot on this trip, oddly enough. I think yesterday I was tired because a horde of angry mosquitoes woke me up at 3AM. Well, the mosquitoes didn't wake me up so much as the violent itching. Have I mentioned that I don't think I've seen a single window screen the entire time →
Euro Trip Day 26: Last stamp day of the trip :-(
Today was our last stamp day of the trip, and I'm oddly sad about it. Honestly, I should have realized it'd be when we crossed into Hungary, but I just wasn't thinking about it. What's a stamp day? It's any day I get a new stamp in my passport. Technically, this isn't even a NEW stamp, since I already have one →