1st April, 2006 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Portable Altar from the British Museum After a long hiatus, here is the continuation of the Europe trip log! It was Sunday the 21st of August. Sunday in Harlow means essentially no bus service and given we were very far from the train station, we were at a bit of a loss how to get to London. » Read More
17th December, 2005 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
Photo from here. After a few hours of sleep, we woke up and chatted with my cousin Yvonne and briefly with her daughter Maria. The last time I saw her she was an 18 month old baby so it was really exciting and strange to see her as a teenager. We decided to try walking to » Read More
17th December, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
So I had this brilliant idea that we could take an overnight bus from Liverpool to London. The train was too expensive, and it seemed like the night would be safer and have less traffic. We purchased our tickets online in advance and when we got to the Liverpool bus station we were excited to » Read More
23rd November, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Aug 19th. Today we visited my uncle Jack and aunt Barb. They drove us around to see the places where my Dad and my uncle lived in the ‘Pool. One of the houses they lived in burned down and they were bombed out of the other one. The latter was near the rail lines, and » Read More
20th November, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
We decided to visit Chester, a nearby town that was a major Roman fort just before Rome pulled out of England. Fred and Lynn gave us a ride to the train station (just down the street) and we took the train into central Liverpool and then switched to the Wirral line to get there. We » Read More
20th November, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
We were quite tired from our last day in Paris because we carried all our luggage with us. We ended up sleeping in until almost 10 AM, then had breakfast and chatted with my aunt and uncle a bit. They drove us around the area and then took us to the Albert Docks. We all » Read More
30th October, 2005 - Posted by karen - 2 Comments
August 16th. We work up early, packed, and checked out by 9 AM. Because our flight was at 6 PM and we had to check out before noon, we carried all our luggage with us. We went to the grocery store at the end of the street and bought some yoghurt and orange juice and » Read More
22nd October, 2005 - Posted by karen - 1 Comment
Well by now we knew about the whole “Paris is on vacation thing” but very unfortunately for us we happened to be there on the long weekend that included a national holiday Monday. When we were out on Saturday and Sunday, we noticed ominous signs stating “le magain sera fermé lundi pour la fête nationale” » Read More
21st October, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Aug 14th: We decided to go to the Louvre since we knew many of the smaller museums would be closed and visiting Notre Dame might be tricky since it was Sunday. We walked near the “steampunk” building (our name for the world’s fair building near to the Louvre) but someone was filming a movie on » Read More
17th October, 2005 - Posted by karen - No Comments
I am going through my trip journal and posting the hilights from our summer trip over several posts. We thoroughly cleaned our apartment, packed, and left home at 11:30 AM on Friday Aug 12th. We took the bus to the metro, went to Namur station, and went to Pushap for lunch. It was super-busy there - » Read More