reflecting

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Toni and I have been thinking about what we enjoyed most and least and wished we had experienced and glad we didn't experience during our vacation: a + means we enjoyed or glad we did it; a - means we wished we had done it

- take a Turkish bath

+ went back to the Acropolis and Parthenan again!

+ going to Lausanne rather than driving in the French countryside

+ not going to Pergaman

+ spending lots of time on the Ile d' St Louis

+ spending time with Rob and Terry

+ seeing a movie in Dijon

- taking the cheapest Bosphorus ferry tour

+ not worrying about how much things cost

+ taking private tours in Athens and Istanbul

+ doing the blog

+ we didn't feel the need to rush around and be a typical tourist

+ being with Martha and Felix in Paris

+ being with Martin, Claudia and Sophia in Fulda

- taking the 1st class seats from Lausanne to Paris

- consfusion of the Paris Metro and train system

- taking a taxi from Gare Lyon to Charles de Gaulle

+ meeting up with Andrew Easton in Paris

+ packing light and discarding old clothes as we moved on

+ taking more photos (memory is cheap and deleting is easy)

+ hanging out with the Hunters in Athens and Istanbul - we really have a good time together

+ going to the piano concert on the Ile de St Louis instead of the Mozart Requiem (although both would have been great and we could have done both)

+ trying Ouzo

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