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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 [...]
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. [...]
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Also tagged Animals, Czech Republic, Food, People
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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 [...]
Euro Trip Day 23: Sarajevo to Zagreb
This post is coming a bit late because it seems like our internet access always seems to die on us in the evening, which is when I’d prefer to be sitting around working on things like reservations for upcoming cities and blog posts and the like. In any case, most Zagreb museums are closed on [...]
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Also tagged Bosnia, Croatia, Museums, Transportation, Video
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Euro Trip Day 21: A depressing historical post (with past and present pictures)
I’m warning you in advance that this is going to be a depressing post, so don’t be leaving comments that this made you want to go eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s or something. Sorry, my lame attempt at humor here. With today’s post, I’m going to post some before and after pictures of [...]
Euro Trip Day 9: In which we get to Korčula and I wonder why we didn’t just go straight here
(Side note — the island’s name is actually pronounced “KOR-chula” — the č in Croatian is a ch sound.) So today I discovered one of the little problems with traveling and not really having a set schedule… one forgets what day it is fairly easily. This morning I woke up gradually shortly after 8, as [...]
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Euro Trip Day 6: A lovely lazy day.
I used to not be so Type A. I used to be much more unscheduled and willing to fly by the seat of my pants. I’m not sure when this changed, but somewhere along the line I decided I needed to have everything planned, and now when I don’t have a plan or things don’t [...]
Euro Trip Day 5: This is where I’ve wanted to be for MONTHS
Before I start my post, I have to say one thing: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! :-) Ok, moving on. :-) This is part of the old city wall in Dubrovnik, southern Croatia. It’s ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, and, unlike Dublin, there’s stuff to do after about 5:30 PM that doesn’t involve spending money. And the weather is considerably [...]
Euro Trip Day 4: See that “no photography” sign? I’m pretending I didn’t.
Let me preface this post by saying that I don’t expect everyone to have a huge level of technical expertise when it comes to photography. I really don’t. Honest. But for the love of pete, if you don’t learn ANYTHING else about how to operate your camera, PLEASE PLEASE learn how to shut off the [...]
Euro Trip Day 3: Swimming through Dublin
It was just a *tad* wet today. Just a bit. Stupid weather report said yesterday that it was going to be partly cloudy today… I think he was talking about Dublin, CA, ’cause there weren’t no “partly” about today. It flipping POURED. Anyway. So I slept really poorly last night, and finally fell back asleep [...]