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Dan & Ashley We are Dan and Ashley. We are recently married and traveling through the UK, France, and Germany over 5 weeks in the summer of 2005.
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The Karwendel
The Karwendel
Upon arrival, as we walked across a supermarket parking lot, I pointed out some scenery to Ashley. "It's very pretty," she said in the voice normally reserved for things like "I'm dying of thirst."... [more]
Christ, what a day. We hit the road from Trier at 8 this morning, German time, for a 548-kilometer (er, 340-mile) burn across southern Germany to Mittenwald, this tiny hamlet tucked away in the Bavarian Alps. A couple of hours in, as we navigated the tunnels and narrow river valleys of the upper Black Forest, a blip of German radio news broke through: ". . . blah blah scheigen fergen swaller explosion blerghof London derkaderk doppel-decker bus auf blahgerzwei Russell Square dergblekkerdanke . . ." Holy crap. We flipped around, and over the next half hour o [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 21st 2005 | 273 Views | [diary=14329]

Mittenwald and the Karwendel II
Mittenwald and the Karwendel III
Mittenwald and the Karwendel IV

View of Trier Dom from the hotel window
View of Trier Dom from the hotel window
The Dom is Germany's oldest church, built by the Romans in 236 AD or something like that. It's fascinating because within the 1,800 year old Romanesque structure, many centuries worth of distinctly G... [more]
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View of Something from the hotel window
Mosel Vineyards
Church across the river from Trier

Louvre:  Behind the Scenes
Louvre: Behind the Scenes
Near the Venus de Milo at the Louvre, you could peek into a courtyard filled with antiquities that weren't ready for prime time. Kind of an funny scene. The statues look like actors in a green room,... [more]
We are in Reims but we have some more Paris stuff, along with gratuitous twists on the phrase "not ready for prime time," to lay on you. Enjoy. [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 4th 2005 | 141 Views | [diary=12631]

Mona Lisa
Eiffel Tower after midnight
View of Central Paris and the Seine

Chagall stained glass
Chagall stained glass
Marc Chagall put together these stained glass windows for the Reims Cathedral in 1985.
...and we're in Reims, France, about an hour northeast of Paris. It is a gorgeous little town of about 200,000, and it feels good to be here after three nights in Paris. Not that Paris wasn't a great scene, but Reims offers much of the same French urban experience -- charming sidewalk cafes, good wine, quaint shutter-and-wrought-iron-laden buildings, grandiose Gothic architecture, shopping -- with more hospitality and lower prices and without throngs of obnoxious tourists like ourselves. Plus, this is where they make Champagne with a capitol C. You don't save any money on it by comin [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 4th 2005 | 352 Views | [diary=12616]

Reims Cathedral
Vines on the Marne
Overlooking the Marne Valley

View into Quartier Latin
View into Quartier Latin
Looking into the Latin Quarter from Quai de la Tournelle.
Dan here. Well, it has been a long time since we updated, but here's what's happening: We are in Paris, having been here about 24 hours. Thursday was a day of trains and airports. Our in-flight entertainment during the 55-minute flight from London to Paris was a physical altercation between an irate Frenchman and a mercurial Brazilian over legroom, right across the aisle from us. Literally, an exchange of punches, broken up very late by the flight stewards, and followed by a fair amount of multilingual cursing. The woman next to me, a French lady, turned and said apologetically, "Wel [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 1st 2005 | 379 Views | [diary=12407]

Altar within Notre Dame
Notre Dame ceiling
Ashley checks out the church

Ashley here. I think I will leave the eloquent posts up to Dan and just give an update on our weekend. We spent Saturday resting in our hotel/flat. We were both tired after Friday's tour of town. On Saturday evening we went out to dinner at a Greek restaurant near the Tate Modern Art Museum. The Tate Modern has late hours on Saturdays, so we slipped in hoping to miss the crowds. It was fairly crowded, but not as bad as the National Gallery the day before. It is a fun museum and they had a good display of modern art. [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 27th 2005 | 218 Views | [diary=12037]

A peacock at Kew.
A fairy tale scene near Buckingham

St. Bride's Church
St. Bride's Church
Note the "wedding cake" structure.
Dan here. Friday was an eventful day for London and for us, bookended by events that together marked it as a day of transition: a set of major morning transport snarls both caused and exacerbated by the heat, and, as the sun retreated for the evening, a cool, thundery rainstorm. Weather I don't know if we've harped on this point much, but it has been HOT in London this past week. Highs have been in the low but humid 90's in a city not really equipped for it: air-conditioning is rare and the "cold" drinks are generally lukewarm from overworked refrigerators. [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 24th 2005 | 344 Views | [diary=11856]

Pump Court
Inside Temple Church
Inside Temple Church #2

The main entrance
The main entrance
This is the main entrance from Great Russel Street.
Hello All, Ashley here. Well, I spent all of Thursday in the British Museum. It just fascinates me and is only a few blocks from Dan's classes, close enough that we can meet for lunch. I've taken many pictures, and I will post a few here. The Museum is the perfect place to hide from the hot weather. It has continued to be around 30 C which is about 86 F. London is just not designed for this type of weather, and there has been a smog alert issued for the first time in three years. We are supposed to have [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 23rd 2005 | 231 Views | [diary=11767]

The covered inner courtyard
The Enlightenment Exhibit
Egyptian Bird

53 Chichele Road
53 Chichele Road
Ashley out front of the Willesden flat.
Dan here. I just wanted to show you a couple pictures of the Willesden Green flat we were forced out of by sickening mold. In terms of conveying the feel of the place, this will just have to do until they perfect Smell-o-Vision. (And on the second day, Ashley said: "From what I've seen so far, London seems a lot like Eugene." 'Twas then I knew we had to move.) [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 23rd 2005 | 167 Views | [diary=11705]

Flat #4:  The Shed
In the Shed
Peeking over the fence #1

St. Paul's
St. Paul's
Here is a view of St. Paul's from the front.
Hello All, we were very lucky on Wednesday, Dan was given the day off from school, as well as a free ticket to one of the London double decker bus tours. We spent the entire day doing very touristy things, and it was very fun. We discovered that our new flat is very close to Hyde Park, and we caught the bus there. We then rode through town and hoped off at St. Paul's Cathedral. It was beautiful. We spent a good amount of time wandering around, and we made our way up to the whispering room in the dome, so [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 23rd 2005 | 128 Views | [diary=11698]

Dan near the London Eye
London Eye Capsule
The view from the London Eye



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