May 16, 2007–Greetings from Oxford!!! Or, perhaps I should say, “Hello (pronounced with a silent ‘h’).” We have safely arrived in the U.K., and surprisingly with no problems at all. Our flight from Atlanta left at 5:30 p.m. (EST), and it was very nice. Sadly, our attempts to sleep – although aided with sleeping pills…
May 17, 2007–We departed Dr. Barnard’s home in Oxford around 9 a.m. and headed to the train station. We caught the train going north and arrived at Windermere around 4 hours later. From Windermere, we took a half-hour bus ride up to Grasmere. Of course, this was no ordinary, run-of-the-mill bus; it was a double-decker!…
We arrived in London at around 16:00 (4 p.m. to all of you bloody Americans) and took the tube to our hotel on the east side of London. We checked in and walked to the Thames. Our hotel is really close to the Tower of London; so, we walked around and took it and the…
May 22, 2007 –When we last left our little adventures, we had rocked England hard enough that they were ready to see us take our little road show across the Channel into France, and that’s exactly what we did. On Tuesday, we took the Chunnel over to Paris , and from there we hopped a…
May 24, 2007–On Thursday, our luck had run out! We misread the train time for the train to the castle Mt. Saint Michel, and missed the only train of the day. So, we hopped a train to the next town…no luck there either. And, this time, there were no “fairy American couples” offering free rides…
May 28-29, 2007–On Monday morning, we left France in the rear view, and headed to Germany. We arrived in Munich at around 5:30, and after about 2 hours and 9 miles of wandering around the city, we found our hotel. (Hey, it wasn’t entirely our fault! The subways had closed down for the day, and…
May 30-31, 2007— Ok, so about Austria….I guess the best way to put it is when I grow up, I want to be simply, John Harris!! We had such an amazing time in Vienna. John was kind enough to meet us at the train station when we came in, and I cannot tell you how…
June 1, 2007–After all of the fun of Vienna, we sadly had to pack our bags and leave the great company. We woke up around 5am, and took a cab to the train station. We caught the first train to Venice. The train ride, although early, was great! We got to see more of the…
Florence, Italy June 2, 2007–We woke up this morning, checked out of the hotel, grabbed some breakfast, and hopped a train to Florence. We got here around 2pm this afternoon, and again, went straight to touring. We went straight to the Duomo and toured the inside of it. Then, we were feeling brave and ambitious;…
Conclusion Well, what can really be said about the trip of a lifetime? Sure, words like unforgettable, exciting, educational, and other similar words that we use so often that they somehow lose their luster are applicable when describing our journeys during the Great Ideas Tour. But, I, like many, have trouble explaining and defining exact…
