Author: Ian

Well, with the exception of Dylan’s bag being delayed until today, we’re home.  [Ed: It was delivered the next day] It was a long, hot journey, but in the end I think it was a very worth while and enjoyable trip.  Very much an experience and adventure.  For me anyway.  I can’t speak for the…

We’ve made it back to Heathrow and are just waiting for our plane now.  It gets in around 6:30 on Monday evening (though that’ll be 1:30 our time).  It’s been fairly easy getting from Paris to London to Heathrow just a pain dragging bags around, but they’re all checked now and we board in an…

We managed to get in and get settled in our apartment. It’ still hot, and we’re just formulating our day.  Nothing too seriously planned, maybe go down to Ile de Ville Cite…or something like that.  Where Notre Dame is.  We have to get up VERY early tomorrow for our train and tour out to Mont…

I’d like to report that using the train system was easy, but in another language it was a little bit difficult.  The only real hitch was that no one could tell us where to get the Eurail Passes validated (first use only), so we waited in the line we THOUGHT was the right one…an hour wait…and…

We’re just waiting for the train in Rome to go to Florence.  I’ve really liked Rome, and so have the kids and Shel.  Great place.  Highly recommended. July 17:  We did the tour of the Vatican.  3.5 hours and we felt like we missed so much.  They say if you took 3 seconds at each…