After blazing sun and heat in the Aran Islands(ugh, the sunburn...), cloudless skies in Dublin, and downpours in the Loire Valley, I figured we were due for some city-appropriate weather...so I arranged for a cow-whizzing-on-flat-rock sort of day for our trip to Hampton Court Palace, a half-hour train ride outside of London (don't ask me how I did ( Read more... )

All is well here in Londres...spent the morning bouncing from theatre to theatre, deciding what to see tonight (we ended up settling on Spamalot...I was the only one who had seen it already, and the price was quite cheap for good seats, and it was practically the only show the four of us could agree on...I suppose it's a peril of traveling in a ( Read more... )

Ok, last time I posted we were in Amsterdam, and I was still writing about Paris...let me sum up a bit ( Read more... )

Webbernet connection from France was expensive and somewhat inconvenient (2Euros for 15 minutes?!?!? On an AZERTY board?!?!! Ewwwwww ( Read more... )

Wow, we did a lot...woke up, went to a local bakery for some AMAZING pastry (1 euro for a massive chocolate cream croissant!), and wandered around the city for quite a while. Barri Gotic again to see the Barcelona History Museum (lots of old Roman ruins and artifacts...Kate was in Heaven!), The Manzanas de la Discordia (a single city block with ( Read more... )

Craig put it best...¨There was a time when that sort of hospitality was the norm, but that was also a time when the most minor injury could lead to a fatal infection ( Read more... )

Well, here we are at the Alberguinn in Barcelona! After a long day of transit yesterday (bus from galway to dublin, flight from dublin to BCN), we arrved safe and sound into our nice, comfy (air conditioned!!) hostel. After a late night snack (a damn good shwarma for 3.50...we hadn realized how expensive Ireland had actually been!), we tucked in ( Read more... )

Never...ever...ever...get me on a bicycle again...after some wheedling and the realization of "if not now, when?", we ferried over to InisMor (the largest of the Aran Islands), rented a bike, and cycled all over the place (with me swerving all over the fortunately nearly-empty roads, nearly colliding with German tourists or horse-drawn carts on the ( Read more... )

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