After our time at the Acropolis, Ari (see This Post for details) walked with us over the the Arch of Hadrian and the Temple of Olympus Zeus, regaling us with stories of Greek history and current political intrigue. In previous travels, Scott and I had found to what extent much of European citizen’s concept of… Read More Athens: Arch Hadrian, Temple Zeus
As we arrived at our apartment in Paris, I immediately loved the door we entered through from the street. It was big, and green, and heavy, and I just thought it was great. But then we got into the interior courtyard, and this was our interior entrance… This is one of the things… Read More Doors of Paris
Most definitely, the sweetest time we had on our trip was in Bilzen, Belgium. It didn’t have the great monuments of the world, or museums or palaces like we had seen, but it has wonderful friends. Years ago Scott and I traveled with a team of people from our church in Virginia to visit a church… Read More Our Bilzen Home…
Silly me, I asked Eddy if our trip today would be 30 minutes? About that? I was wanting to alleviate the girls worry about how long they would have to ride in the car. “No!” he replied, “No! Ten minutes, maybe fifteen.” Well, we really are close to the border of the Netherlands! Our day… Read More Maastricht, Afternoon in the Netherlands
Waking up Thursday, I had not planned on a long shower. But we were in the Grand Hotel Casselbergh, and had a shower with the best hot water and water pressure we had yet had in Europe, so a long, hot shower was all I wanted. We all took advantage. If I somehow convinced Scott… Read More Bruges: Canals and Churches
Three AM local time in California, my phone alarm went off. I turned over in bed, bleary-eyed fumbling to shut off the noise, and with the same lack of coordination pulled my laptop onto the bed, booting it up. From the depth of darkness beside me, Scotty rolled his face away from the glare, not… Read More Paris: Eiffel Tower