At the crack of noon (we’re on holiday), Monday, July 13, it was a quick trip from Karlsruhe back to Kandel to pick up our charges, Delaney and Brett, and head to France. Destination for the next four days would be Nancy in France’s Alsace Lorraine region, with a short stop-off to see the cathedral …
It’s been a busy 9 days of touring. On the off chance you’re interested, here’s quick summary: [Note: Photo’s coming, but our Paris Interweb connection is merde.] Sunday, July 5, Amsterdam – The requisite boat tour of Amsterdam’s canal followed by a quick trip across the harbor from Centraal Station to try and find a monthly mega-flea …
Have you ever noticed if your on a train and there’s this one group that’s louder than everyone else they’ll probably be takin’ ‘Merican?
Saturday, July 4th No fireworks for us–saving them for Bastille Day. Today it was back to Centraal and back on the train, this time to Utrecht to catch a bit of the prelim stage of the 2015 Tour de France and to visit our Gallant friend and Utrecht native Sophie. More and more it seems …
As a nice alternative to my blah blah blog, our travel-mates, Delaney and Brett have a very cool Tumblr blog going here. Have a look.
Thursday/Friday, July 2/3 Travel day is travel day–long, tiring, a bit of a blur. Fly to Paris via Detroit; TGV/Thalys fast trains to Amsterdam (Amsterdam flights were really expensive); Thursday morphed into Friday. Anyway, the four of us made it. After 36 hours of being on the go, the fine Dutch beds felt pretty good. …
French ATC decided not to strike (at least for now), bags are packed and we’re on our way. #excited.
Looks like a couple of ATC unions in France might be making our departure plans a bit more interesting. C’est la vie.
We spend a lot of time mapping out our little international excursions. This go around however, we seem to have had one good sized space-out moment. Early last week I sent a text to our Gallant sailing friend Sophie saying we’d be in Amsterdam in early July and, if she wasn’t at sea, it’d be …
Two weeks from right now it’ll be getting close to time, after 30-some hours of traveling, to crawl into our fine Dutch beds. Plan is pretty much all in place with only a few tweak-changes to reservations, etc. and we’re getting very excited.