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26
Jul 15

Remembering Paris

We watched the last stage of the Tour de France tonight, which concludes after three weeks of racing across the country finishes on the famed Avenue des Champs-Élysée. They do several laps, a downtown criterium winding down the world’s toughest endurance race, and they turn around at the Arc de Triomphe.

Over and over we saw the place where we stood just last month:

You can see more of our day in Paris here, here (including the Arc) and here.

And, with that, this blog is going to take two weeks off. Expect a ton of fun stuff when you come back on August 8th. Be safe, have fun until then.

Catch you on the flip side.

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10
Jul 15

In Tower Bridge

Here are a few photos from a terrific day in London. See more of it here.

Except for the pedestrian sidewalk, I did not know you could walk across the Tower Bridge. You can do it indoors, across the top. And there are places where you can stand on a window and look down at the bridge and the Thames:

She did a handstand there, but I don’t have a copy of those pictures.

We walked across the pedestrian part of the bridge, too. Got photobombed for our troubles:

And here’s the bridge in the background, as seen from London Tower:

adventures / Germany / links / memories / photo / Thursday — Comments Off
9
Jul 15

My feet were hurting by then

(Another look back at being a tourist in Germany … )

Here we were in Berlin. Just a half block away was the historic Checkpoint Charlie. We saw this on our huge day of Berlin walking and when we saw the famous Brandenburg Gate up close.

adventures / Belgium / history / links / memories / photo / Wednesday — Comments Off
8
Jul 15

Daydreaming of Belgium

(Still more extra stuff from Brussels.)

There we were, sitting outside the beautiful St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral.

People have been worshipping perhaps as far back as the ninth century. This building went up between the 13th and 16th centuries. The stained glass windows and confessionals are that old. Just think of it. That place was old when the U.S. was new.

Don’t worry. We went inside. I produced a little video. You can see it here.

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7
Jul 15

British selfies

(A few extra shots from our last visit to London, because it is summertime and our trip was grand.)

We were playing around with the selfie stick. Yes, we have one, and it facilitates the production of quality photographs. We’re actually laughing at you for not having one.

Anyway, this was outside of our flat in London. We were waiting on a family friend to stop by. She goes way back with The Yankee’s folks and lives and works in London. Turns out she lives not basically around the corner from where we were staying. We only had time to take a few pictures: