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The Four Month Mark & Update
It’s been four months since we left the United States. We spent most of the last month in Italy and are now Nafplio Greece, a small city on the Peloponnesian peninsula and our last stop before heading towards home. To update everyone that’s not aware, we had to cancel the last three weeks of our…
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The Paris Punchlist
Because we were trying to establish a school routine as well as not overextend ourselves, we saw the other iconic Paris sites one or two at a time in the afternoons or weekends. Abe wasn’t feeling well the first weekend we were there, so he stayed at home while the rest of us went into…
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“Paris is Always a Good Idea,”
Audrey Hepburn once said. Rich in art, history and defining delicious cuisine, we agree. Everyone in our family wanted Paris to be on our European itinerary. During the planning process, we allocated two of the thirteen weeks we have on the continent for France. With that time frame in mind, it was easy to focus…
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Moving to Paris
On August 30th, we left York and England for Paris. Moving to Paris was a monumental day because it marked the beginning of our official school semester and us entering the Schengen zone, the European visa territory. It was also monumental to all of us because we were traveling there by taking the Eurostar which…
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Three Month Review
We crossed the three month mark two days ago. In the month since my two month review, we finished our time in the Netherlands, spent three weeks in Germany and have now been in Italy for one week. The week in the Netherlands and the two we spent in Dresden, Germany were our hardest so…
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England Food, Favorites & Wrap Up
We left England on a beautiful, mild and sunny day. We had been there for four and half weeks and had really enjoyed that time. England was easy to love for everyone: we had enjoyed all the new places and experiences without having a language barrier plus we benefited from the freedom of traveling around…
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Thirsk: The World of James Herriot
On Monday, August 28th we took the train from York to Thirsk, then walked into town from the train station to visit The World of James Herriot – where they have preserved the home and surgery of veterinarian James Alfred “Alf” Wright. Wright used the pen name James Herriot when writing stories, later published together…
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York
We left Alnwick Castle after a delicious and relaxing lunch and headed to York, the last city on our United Kingdom itinerary. We arrived there in the late afternoon and headed to the apartment we had booked for four nights. It was a lovely little apartment on Priory street in an old building with lots…
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Alnwick Castle
We left Edinburgh Scotland on August 25th and traveled to Alnwick (rhymes with manic) England where we spent one night so we could visit the castle there. Arlie had asked to put this on the itinerary during our planning time back in the spring. Alnwick Castle is where some of the first two Harry Potter…
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Edinburgh, Part Two
On our third day in Edinburgh, August 24th, we had tickets to tour Edinburgh Castle at 12:30, so we decided to head over close to Old Town after breakfast and hike to the top of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano that we had noticed from the Royal Mile on Tuesday. The hike to the summit…
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