Day 8: Barcelona to Helsinki
We really enjoyed our time in Barcelona. And, 3 days was enough. We were ready to go. We loved the scenery and really loved the [...]
Day 7: Barcelona, Part 3 – Gaudi and the Sea
Barcelona is a Gaudi town, as in Antoni Gaudi, an architect known for something called Catalan Modernism. You see his influence all throughout the city [...]
Day 6: Barcelona, Part 2 – Parc de Montjuic
Parc de Montjuic is more of district than an actual park, although there's a lot of park-like terrain in the district. It has played a [...]
Day 5: Barcelona, Part 1 – Gothic Quarter
Today was the first official day of Dan's vacation (we'll just ignore that he's on a conference call at this moment...approaching 10pm....) so he slept [...]
Day 4: Cologne to Barcelona
I slept a pretty good 7 hours; Dan only about 5; we were both up before 7am. We went down for breakfast in the hotel [...]
Day 3: Trier, Part 2; a Turkish neighborhood in Cologne
Turns out I didn't get to do much today. Good thing I didn't have anything specific planned. But the day started out great. I slept [...]
Day 2: Luxembourg American Cemetery & Trier
I woke up about 5:40am, just a little over 5.5 hours sleep. I felt rested but needed coffee, and there wasn't any in the room. [...]
Day 1: Luxembourg
We both slept a good 7 hours and woke up a little before 7am. We had breakfast at the hotel buffet, which was pretty decent. [...]
Departure: San Francisco to Cologne
Not too much to write about, just glad to have gotten here safe and sound. I left Davis Saturday afternoon and dropped the car off [...]
Pre-departure
I'm generally pretty focused on being in the moment. I'm a good planner and make time to do just that; then when I'm doing I'm [...]
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