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The Trip
Current mood:  tired
Category: Travel and Places
Ok, I started writing up a series of notes about the trip all over
Europe last week. I got to three pages of ranting about airlines
before I quit all that.
So, here are some pics. I cannot find my regular camera anywhere, so these phone pics will have to do.
First
stop, Landskrona, Sweden. My favorite stop of the whole trip -
just gotta make sure any return trip is not in the winter.
Tycho Brahe is a big deal there. We ate at his pub.
After
an overnight flight, we had all day Sunday to recover, so we took an
afternoon to walk about - and we found a Renaissance Festival!
Several
days and flights and taxi rides and loooong meetings later, we had a
free afternoon in Torino, Italy. I loved the place! Not too
big a town, but still plenty to see and do with just enough hustle and
bustle going on, including actual productivity (unlike other cities
full of bohemian spongers).
I didn't get a chance to do the usual McDonalds visit, but there are still signs that the American empire is healthy.
Shortly
after that we were in Paris. After a day trip to Amiens, a
cluster of factories in the middle of farm fields, we had a day to poke
around.
Notre Dame was too spiny for my taste.
I preferred the cleaner look of this buttressed chapel.
An afternoon stroll, with plenty of zig-zagging to hit side street shops, takes in the usual suspect photo ops.
The
Eiffle thingy was all blue and starry because France has the notional
EU "presidency" this year. Does France get a driver and fancy
house with that?
3:59 PM
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